Toronto Theatre & Dance Listings Summer 2009

ONGOING:

• Indefinite run: Jersey Boys (Dancap Productions at the Toronto Centre for the Performing Arts)—The musical story of '50s and '60s pop group Franki Valli and the Four Seasons—Read about it!
• Indefinite run: The Sound of Music (Mirvish Productions at the Princess of Wales Theatre)—The beloved musical story of the Von Trapp Family Singers and their flight from Nazi-occupied Austria—Read about it!
• Indefinite run: We Will Rock You (Mirvish Productions at the Panasonic Theatre)—The music of iconic rock group Queen reimagined as a musical about a repressive future world and the rebels who challenge it—Read about it!

LIMITED RUN

• To May 23: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Canadian Opera Company)
• To May 24: A Beautiful View by Daniel MacIvor (Tarragon Theatre)
• To May 24: Of All The People In All The World (Stan's Cafe at Harbourfront Centre World Stage)
  To May 24: Fear of Flight (Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland at Factory Theatre)—One of Canada's top theatre directors, Jillian Keiley, soars into thin air on the wings of the best of this country's theatre writers, like Daniel MacIvor, Guillermo Verdecchia, Judith Thompson, Marie Clements and others
• To May 30: Doubt, a Parable (The Canadian Stage Company)
• To May 30: Tuesdays With Morrie with Hal Linden (Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company)—The former star of Barney Miller in the inspiring and sometimes comic drama about a man who learns life lessons from his dying mentor
• To May 31: Anne of Green Gables, The Musical (Dancap Productions at the Elgin Theatre)—The perennial favourite from the Charlottetown Festival in PEI about the red-haired orphan whose cheerful courage changes the lives of her new family members
• May 15 to 30: You Are Here by Ivan Coyote (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)
• May 19 to 31: Eternal Hydra by Anton Piatgorsky (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)
• May 19 to June 21: Riverdance (Mirvish Productions at Canon Theatre)
• May 20 to 31: 4-H Club, Killer’s Head, Cowboys#2: Three Plays by Sam Shepard (at the KA mansion, 160 St. George Street)
• May 21 to 30: The Shadow by Alex Poch-Goldin & Omar Daniel (Tapestry New Opera)
• May 24 to 31: DISHOOM! A South Asian Performance Festival (DiaspoRadicals & VideoCabaret)
• May 26 & 27: Songbook III with Melanie Doane (Art of Time Ensemble)
• May 26 to June 7: Cowboys and Indians by Anand Rajaram (Onofono & VideoCabaret at Factory Theatre), part of DISHOOM! South Asian Performance Festival
• May 27 to 31: Giselle (National Ballet of Canada)
• May 28 to 30: City of Tribes and Selected Repertoire (DanceWorks, Dance Immersion, Tavaziva Dance & COBA at Harbourfront Centre NextSteps)—Contemporary dance
• June 5 to 11: The Children's Crusade by R. Murray Schafer (Canadian Children's Opera Company at Luminato)
• June 5 to 13: Zisele (Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company)
• June 5 to 14: Lipsynch (Luminato)—Robert Lepage's nine-hour multimedia epic
• June 5 to 14: Nevermore (Catalyst Theatre at Luminato)—A tribute to the tormented psyche of Edgar Allen Poe
• June 5 to 14: 5 O'Clock Bells (Sleeping Dog Theatre at Luminato)—About the unsolved 1984 murder of jazz guitar legend Lenny Breau
• June 5 to 14: Continuous City (The Builders Association, NY at Luminato)—A traveling businessman uses electronic media to keep in touch with his boss, daughter, and her nanny. Incorporates a participatory website at http://www.xubu.cc/
• June 5 to 14: Zisele (Beit Lessin Theatre of Tel Aviv at Luminato)—Celebrates the quirky and complex relationship between mother and daughter in Yiddish culture.
• June 5 to 14: Nederlands Dans Theater I (Luminato)—Contemporary dance
• June 5 to 14: Tono (Luminato)—A dance and music creation exploring shamanism and the majesty of the horse in indigenous cultures of Canada, China, and Mongolia
• June 6 to 14: Skin Divers/Carmen (National Ballet of Canada at Luminato)—Italian choreographer Davide Bombana's re-conceptualization of Bizet's Carmen
• June 6 to 21: Body & Soul by Judith Thompson & the company (Thompson and Fine at Tarragon Theatre)
• June 6 to July 31: Awake and Sing by Clifford Odets (Soulpepper)
• June 9 to 28: Scorched by Wajdi Mouawad (Tarragon Theatre)
• June 15 to 21: Così fan tutte by Mozart (Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio) June 17 to 27: The Burning Bush! (Burning Bush Productions at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts)
• June 18: GANGA (Janak Khendry Dance Company at Harbourfront Centre NextSteps)
• June 25 to July 30: Of the Fields, Lately by David French (Soulpepper)
• June 29: 30th anniversary Dora Mavor Moore Awards
• June 30 to September 6: The Tempest by William Shakespeare (CanStage TD Dream in High Park) with Karen Robinson as "Prospera"
• July 1 to 12: The Fringe: Toronto’s Theatre Festival
• July 8: The Kings of Swing (Gryphon Theatre, Barrie)
  July 9 & 11: The Bard's Bus Tour: King Lear (Driftwood Theatre at Todmorden Mills)
• July 10 & 12: The Bard's Bus Tour: The Comedy of Errors Driftwood Theatre at Todmorden Mills)
• July 11: The Second City Ate My Homework (Gryphon Theatre, Barrie)
• July 17: The Bard's Bus Tour: The Comedy of Errors (Driftwood Theatre at Bradley House Museum, Mississauga)
• July 18: The Bard's Bus Tour: King Lear (Driftwood Theatre at Bradley House Museum, Mississauga)
• July 20 to 25: He Sang, She Sang (Gryphon Theatre, Barrie)
• July 28 to 30: The Bard's Bus Tour: King Lear (Driftwood Theatre Trinity Bellwoods Park)
• July/August: The Harder They Come by Perry Henzell. Songs by Jimmy Cliff (Mirvish Productions)—Based on the vital and groundbreaking film that broke reggae on the North American scene
• August 7 to 17: SummerWorks Theatre Festival
• August 8 & 9: Bam! Percussion (Gryphon Theatre, Barrie)
• August 8 to 28: Billy Bishop Goes to War by John Gray with Eric Peterson (Soulpepper
• August 10 to 15: Blue Suede Shoes: Memories of the King with Elvis impersonator Roy LeBlanc (Gryphon Theatre, Barrie)
• August 15: The Bard's Bus Tour: King Lear (Driftwood Theatreat City Centre, Mississauga)
• August 16: The Bard's Bus Tour: The Comedy of Errors (Driftwood Theatre at City Centre, Mississauga)
• August 20 & 21: The Bard's Bus Tour: King Lear (Driftwood Theatre at City Centre, Mississauga)
• August 22: The Bard's Bus Tour: The Comedy of Errors (Driftwood Theatre at Withrow Park)
• August 23 The Bard's Bus Tour: King Lear (Driftwood Theatre at Withrow Park)
• August 29 to October 24: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee (Soulpepper
• August 31 to October 24: The Guardsman by Ferenc Molnar (Soulpepper)

Stratford Festival
June 1 to October 31: Macbeth by William Shakespeare
June 2 to October 30: The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
June 3 to October 3: Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
June 4 to October 2: Bartholomew Fair by Ben Jonson
June 6 to October 31: Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
June 19 to November 1: Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, trans. Anthony Burgess
June 20 to August 9: Ever Yours, Oscar by Oscar Wilde, adapt. Peter Wylde
June 20 to November 1: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by Burt Shevelove, Larry Gelbart & Stephen Sondheim
June 5 to October 31: West Side Story by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim
August 21 to October 4: The Trespassers by Morris Panych
August 21 to October 30: A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare – pictured, with Yanna McIntosh as Titania & Geraint Wyn Davies as Bottom. Photo: David Hou, courtesy Stratford Festival.
August 22 to October 3: Phèdre by Jean Racine
August 22 to October 3: Rice Boy by Sunil Kuruvilla
August 23 to October 3: Zastrozzi by George F. Walker

Shaw Festival
May 20 to October 24: Brief Encounters by Noël Coward
May 21 to October 9: In Good King Charles’s Golden Days by George Bernard Shaw
May 22 to November 1: Sunday in the Park with George by James Lepine & Stephen Sondheim
May 23 to November 1: Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin
May 23 to November 9: A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O’Neill
June 9 to October 31: Play, Orchestra, Play by Noël Coward
July 10 to October 10: Albertine in Five Times by Michel Tremblay, trans. Linda Gaboriau
July 11 to October 11: Star Chamber by Noël Coward
July 9 to October 11: The Devil’s Disciple by George Bernard Shaw
August 1 to October 11: Ways of the Heart by Noël Coward
August 15 to September 20: The Entertainer by John Osborne

Blyth Festival
June 24 to August 15: The Bootblack Orator by Ted Johns
July 8 to August 14: The Mail Order Bride by Robert Clinton
July 22 to September 5: Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad by Michael Melski
August 5 to September 5: The Nuttalls by Michael Healey
September 9 to September 19: Innocence Lost: A Play About Steven Truscott by Miles Potter