Bard on the Beach until August 13, 2023
Director/adaptor Lois Anderson, working with set designer Amir Ofek, has a vision that involves bringing the audience into Henry V, not so much in an interactive way but by setting a mood, an atmosphere, that informs the play.
Kate Besworth as Henry V. Credit: Tim Matheson
Bard on the Beach to September 24, 2023
When it was announced that Julius Caesar was coming in the Bard 2023 season with women in many of the significant males roles – including Jennifer Lines as Mark Antony – some were intrigued, some were sceptical and there probably was some eye-rolling.
Andrew Wheeler as Julius Caesar and Andrew McNee as Brutus in Julius Caesar. Credit: Tim Matheson
Bard on the Beach to September 30, 2023
I am not, generally speaking, a laugh-out-loud-at-the-theatre kind of person but several times in this Bard on the Beach production, adapted and directed by Daryl Cloran, I completely lost it.
Chelsea Rose as Rosalind and Oscar Derkx as Orlando in As You Like It. Credit: Emily Cooper
Firehall Arts Centre to June 4, 2023
As well as death and taxes, change is inevitable but it’s not always a good thing. Written and performed by Derek Chan, Happy Valley is about change and the erasure of history as time marches on.
Derek Chan in Happy Valley. Credit: Pedro Augusto Meza
The Cultch (in association with the rEvolver Festival) to June 4, 2023
Treat yourself to something sweet – sometimes bittersweet – an utterly charming intercontinental, intercultural love story.
Matthew Mackenzie and Mariya Khomutova in First Métis Man of Odesa. Credit: Alexis McKeown
Studio 16, 1551 West 7th Avenue, to May 21, 2023
If romantic comedies are your thing, there’s a good chance you will like Unexpecting. You might laugh yourself silly.
Jessica Heafey as Jo and Rahat Saini as Annie in Unexpecting. Credit: Tina Krueger Kulic
Jericho Arts Centre until April 30, 2023
Metro Theatre May 5-14, 2023
Hard-drinking, hard-living, hard-loving writer Dylan Thomas set Under Milk Wood, originally produced as a radio play for the BBC in 1954, in LLareggub, a fictitious seaside town in south Wales. Spelled backwards, Llareggub is “buggerall”. Such irreverence and playfulness with words infuses Under Milk Wood.
Gordon Law, Diana Sandberg (as Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard) and Peter Robbins in Under Milk Wood. Credit: Nancy Caldwell
The Cultch Historic Theatre to April 23, 2023
Superior direction by Mindy Parfitt and stellar performances by everyone, Stupid F*cking Bird is packed with tremendous sympathy for the human condition and the timely questioning of the function of theatre: then as now.
Nathan Kay as Con and Kerry Sandomirsky as Emma in Stupid F*cking Bird. Credit: Emily Cooper
Pacific Theatre to April 15, 2023
Spell-binding. You know a theatrical performance has had an effect when there is a long silence before the applause. It’s as if applauding will break the spell.
Shayna Jones in Black & Rural. Credit: Sarah Race
Jericho Arts Centre to April 16, 2023
The hallmark of a great play is that across all time and boundaries, a character – like Hedda Gabler – remains enigmatic, potent, fascinating and elusive. Is she a villain or a victim?
Hayley Sullivan as Hedda Gabler and Nick Rempel as Judge Brack in Hedda Gabler. Credit: Nancy Caldwell