Heads Up
Where: The Young Centre for the Performing Arts Distillery District
When: Monday, February 14, 2011
Why: Charming musical about love, just right for Valentine’s Day.
Also Albert Schultz stars and sometimes he’s larger than his character needs to be. I want to see how he does here.
What: FLOATING
Where: Harbourfront, as part of World Stage Festival
When: Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Why: The story is intriguing: A Welsh island becomes unattached from
the United Kingdom and floats away.
The voyage is chronicled by two performers using a stage full of clutter.
What: MORRIS PANYCH Reading
Where: TheatreBooks, third floor
When: Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Why: It’s Morris Panych, the wild man of Canadian playwrights. He
writes dark, funny plays about our quirkiness. He reads from his latest work. A chance to
get up close and personal to one of our leading theatrical forces.
What: THE RHUBARB FESTIVAL
Where: Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
When: Beginning Wednesday, February 16 to Sunday, February 27, 2011
Why: It’s a festival of plays, performances and concerts, many of which go on to
further developement and see another day as expanded plays and other work.
Always an interesting, provocative ride.
What: THE MIDDLE PLACE
Where: The Berkeley Street Theatre Downstairs.
When : Thursday, February 17, 2011
Why: A moving and sobering look at youth in a shelter.
Revised and remounted from Summerworks where I said it was
one of my five best bets.
An inventive collaboration between Theatre Passe Muraille
and Canadian Stage where it was done at Passe Muraille in the fall for further
exploration and development and now at Canadian Stage is ready to be ‘reviewed’ after
that development.
THE FANTASTICKS
FLOATING
MORRIS PANYCH READING
RHUBARB FESTIVAL
THE MIDDLE PLACE