Script Tease Theatre Passe Muraille (16 Ryerson Avenue) May 28–June 3, various times $15–$20 Here’s how a Script Tease works: Ten playwrights submit the first two pages of a new play. Those pages are sealed in individual envelopes. Over the course of a week, three performers from the renowned improv theatre company The National Theatre [...]

360 Screenings Secret Location Friday, May 25 $60 You could call it a screen-age dream: to be able to touch, breathe, and interact with the world of one of your favourite movies. For instance, to feel the earth shudder at the approach of a brontosaurus in Jurassic Park. To request a song from Sam in [...]

The Real World? Tarragon Theatre (30 Bridgman Avenue) Runs to June 3 Tuesday to Saturday at 8 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, 2:30 p.m. matinees $21–$51 We’ll never quite understand why some audience members aren’t interested in sticking around to ask questions during post-show talkbacks. If your parking’s about to expire, or you have a very [...]

The Shipment Enwave Theatre (231 Queens Quay West) May 9–12, 8 p.m. $15–$45 As progressive as we like to think our society is, every once in a while there is a case (Trayvon Martin, for example) that exposes an obscene, overt act of racism. We mourn the victim, shame the culprit, and take solace in [...]

Gruesome Playground Injuries The Theatre Centre (1087 Queen Street West) May 2 to 13, Tuesdays to Sundays at 7:30 p.m., weekend matinees at 1:30 p.m. $20–$30 We’ve all had our scrapes and bruises from the playground, and chances are the words we used to describe them at the time were “gr-ooooss” or “awwwesome.” But imagine [...]

The Innocents Tarragon Theatre Studio (30 Bridgman Avenue) April 17 to May 13 Wednesday, Friday, Saturday at 8 p.m.; Sunday matinees at 2:30 p.m. $17-$22 You may have heard of this new little show called Girls on HBO. Hannah is 24, two years out of university, interns for a living in New York City (supplemented [...]

You Can’t Take It With You Young Centre for the Performing Arts (55 Mill Street) April 26–June 21, various dates and times $22–$68 The 2010s have Modern Family, just as the 1990s had Full House and Family Matters. All of those TV shows are comedies that celebrate the quirks and unbreakable bonds within families. In [...]

The Game of Love and Chance Bluma Appel Theatre (27 Front Street East) April 16 to May 12 Mondays to Saturdays at 8 p.m., Wednesdays at 1:30 p.m., Saturdays at 2 p.m. $24 to $99 The Game of Love and Chance is a 300-year-old farce made up of arranged marriages, mistaken identities, class dynamics, entrances [...]

Oil and Water Factory Theatre (125 Bathurst Street) April 18–May 6, Tuesdays–Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. $30–$40 As we saw last month in Mikaela Dyke’s Dying Hard, for many years life in St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, wasn’t easy. While the men working in the mines developed silicosis and lung cancer, which would [...]

Prisoner of Tehran Theatre Passe Muraille (16 Ryerson Avenue) April 10–28, Tuesdays–Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., Saturday matinees at 2 p.m. PWYC–$35 In rare cases, a piece of non-fiction can be more dramatic than an invented story. When Marina Nemat published her memoir, Prisoner of Tehran, in 2007, Canada discovered one such work. Nemat’s life story [...]

Clybourne Park Berkeley Street Theatre (26 Berkeley Street) April 2–28 Monday–Saturday 8 p.m., plus Wednesdays at 1:30 p.m. and Saturdays at 2 p.m. PWYC–$49 The purchasing and selling of real estate is much more than a financial investment—it’s a statement about one’s emotional maturity, interests, taste, and identity. It’s a commitment not only to a [...]

It is a traditional practice, done at many churches during the Lenten season: remembering the journey of Jesus to his crucifixion, as described in the Bible. But Ins Choi does it a little differently. The Toronto-based actor and writer—perhaps best known for his play Kim’s Convenience—has spent the past several weeks performing his latest work, [...]