At the Firehall Arts Centre until October 25, 2014
Dancer and storyteller supreme, Denise Clarke isn’t wagging her own tail – or what she refers to in the show as her “luscious butt” – in the sense my mother meant; she’s wagging her tail out of rediscovered joy in the face of what was for her a very bad year.
Denise Clarke in wag. Credit: Trudie Lee
At Jericho Arts Centre until October 25, 2014
Pig’s blood. You know there’s going to be pig’s blood even if you didn’t see the movie.
Ranae Miller as Carrie in Carrie The Musical. Credit: Allyson Fournier
At Pacific Theatre until November 1, 2014
Predictability usually kills a play but in The Rainmaker predictability is as comforting as homemade pumpkin pie.
Pippa Johnstone as Lizzie in The Rainmaker. Credit: Emily Cooper
At the Firehall Arts Centre until October 18, 2014
With Prime Minister Harper taking Canada into the Middle East conflict, My Rabbi could hardly be more relevant.
Joel Bernbaum and Kayvon Kelly in My Rabbi. Credit: Derek Ford
At Studio 58 until October 19, 2014
Bold and brash, this world premiere marries sci-fi and Romantic poetry sans words; it’s a leap into uncharted territory and you might experience g-force just watching it.
Markian Tarasiuk in Kosmic Mambo. Credit: Emily Cooper
At the First Christian Reformed Church (2670 Victoria Drive) until October 18, 2014
As a young man back in the 1930s, American playwright Thornton Wilder was dissatisfied with the theatre: “I felt that something had gone wrong….I began to feel that the theatre was not only inadequate, it was evasive.” His artistic reaction to this dissatisfaction was Our Town.
Bob Frazer as the Stage Manager in Our Town. Credit: Emily Cooper
At the Arts Club Granville Island Stage until October 25, 2014
Director Sarah Rodgers must have been pulling her hair trying to secure a leading man in time for opening night of Educating Rita.
Holly Lewis and Scott Bellis in Educating Rita. Credit: Murray Mitchell.
At The Cultch until October 12, 2014
It’s time to trot out all the superlatives; critics and audiences alike are falling all over themselves trying to come up with bigger and better words to describe Ronnie Burkett’s bigger and better Daisy Theatre. Fantastic. Brilliant. Hilarious. Amazing. Transfixing
Schnitzel. Credit: Alejandro Santiago
At Presentation House Theatre until September 28, 2014
There’s dysfunctional and there’s really, really dysfunctional. The family in Since You Left Us, actor Susinn McFarlen’s first play, is one of the latter: shot through with alcoholism, bad parenting, sibling rivalry and unhealthy co-dependency. But in a funny way.
Back row: Mike Gill, Derek Metz and Mike Wasko. Front row: Jillian Fargey, Erla Faye Forsyth and Colleen Wheeler.
At The Stanley until October 12, 2014
A good reason for mounting 4000 Miles, written by award-winning American playwright Amy Herzog in 2011, is that it gets actor Nicola Cavendish back on the boards after three years.
Nathan Barrett and Nicola Cavendish in 4000 Miles. Credit: David Cooper