Des McAnuff receives Governor General's Performing Arts Award

Tonight in Ottawa, Stratford Shakespeare Festival artistic director Des McAnuff will receive the National Arts Centre Award of the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards. He is being honoured alongside rock band Rush, classical pianist Janina Fialkowska, Quebec theatre creator Denis Marleau, filmmaker Deepa Mehta, comedian Mary Walsh, arts supporter Earlaine Collins and dancer-choreographer Paul André Fortier. For 20 years, the awards have been among the highest forms of national recognition for performing artists in Canada.

Photo courtesy of Stratford Shakespeare Festival

Noël Coward's Present Laughter Opens at Shaw

Tonight, the Shaw Festival's production of Noël Coward's comedy Present Laughter opens in previews at the Festival Theatre. It stars Steven Sutcliffe as Gary Essendine and Claire Julien as his wife Liz Essendine, with Mary Haney, Patrick McManus, Gray Powell, Moya O'Connell, Joanna Lyppiatt, Julia Course, Jonathan Tan, Corrine Koslo, James Pendarves and Jennifer Phipps. The show runs until Sunday, October 28. For tickets and more information, visit the Shaw Festival.

Split Britches at Buddies in Bad Times

Starting tonight, the New York-based lesbian feminist performance company Split Britches presents three shows at Buddies in Bad Times. Lost Lounge by Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver runs May 3, 4 and 5. Buddies is also presenting a teatime meeting with Shaw and Weaver in association with the University of Toronto and York University, on Saturday, May 5 from 3 to 5 p.m. For tickets and further information, call 416-975-8555 or visit Buddies.

bluemouth inc. Dance Marathon at Harbourfront World Stage

The final show in this year's World Stage season at Harbourfront Theatre is Dance Marathon, an immersive creation from the Toronto-based theatre collective bluemouth inc. It runs two nights only at the Enwave Theatre: Friday and Saturday, May 18 and 19. For tickets, call 416-973-4000 or visit Harbourfront Centre.

Photo credit: Gordon Hawkins

Tickets on Sale for Million Dollar Quartet

On Saturday, May 5, tickets go on sale for Dancap Productions' Million Dollar Quartet, which runs at the Toronto Centre for the Arts from July 10 to 29, 2012. Dancap has recently announced it will stop producing shows here, but this one is still going ahead. The show, which has been a big hit on Broadway, is about a legendary recording session with Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins. For tickets, call 416-644-3666 (toll free: 1-866-960-7469) or visit Dancap.

Photo: National Tour of Million Dollar Quartet by Joan Marcus: Martin Kaye as Jerry Lee Lewis, Lee Ferris as Carl Perkins, Cody Slaughter as Elvis Presley, Derek Keeling as Johnny Cash.

Toronto Theatre & Dance Listings January to June 2010

Jan 5 to 23: You Fancy Yourself by Maja Ardal (Contrary Company with Theatre Passe Muraille)
Jan 6 to 31: East of Berlin by Hannah Moscovitch (Tarragon Theatre) http://www.tarragontheatre.com/
Jan 11 to Feb 6: Such Creatures by Judith Thompson (Nightswimming & Theatre Passe Muraille "Toronto" season)
Jan 15 to 30: Hay Fever by Noël Coward (Alumnae Theatre Company – 90th season) http://www.alumnaetheatre.com/
Jan 19 to 24: Rent: The Broadway Tour (Mirvish at Canon Theatre)
Jan 22 to 24: Dance Ontario – DanceWeekend 2010 (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps dance series at Fleck Dance Theatre) www.harbourfrontcentre.com/nextsteps
Jan 26 to Feb 28: Little House on the Prairie by Rachel Portman, Rachel Sheinkin and Donna di Novelli (Mirvish Productions)
Jan 27 to 30: Weesageechak Begins to Dance – festival of new works (Native Earth Performing Arts at Theatre Passe Muraille)
Jan 27 to Feb 27: Carmen (Canadian Opera Company 60th anniversary)
Jan 31 to Feb 25: El Numero uno by Pam Mordecai (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young Audiences)
Feb 3 to 6: roadkill (Splintergroup – Australia & Harbourfront Centre World Stage)
Feb 3 to 20: Les Médecins de Molière (Molière Doctors) by Molière (Théâtre La Catapulte, Ottawa & Théâtre français de Toronto)
Feb 3 to 28: Otello (Canadian Opera Company 60th anniversary)
Feb 5 to Mar 7: Yichud (Seclusion) by Julie Tepperman (Harold Green Jewish Theatre at Theatre Passe Muraille) http://www.hgjewishtheatre.com/
Feb 8 to Mar 6: Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage (Obsidian Theatre at The Canadian Stage Company)
Feb 9 to Mar 21: Hush by Rosa Laborde (Tarragon Theatre) http://www.tarragontheatre.com/
Feb 10 to 28: 31st Rhubarb Festival (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)
Feb 11 to 14: OUM (Mother) by Arabesque Dance Company & Orchestra (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps dance series at Fleck Dance Theatre) www.harbourfrontcentre.com/nextsteps
Feb 12 & 13: Shostakovich: A Portrait (Art of Time Ensemble)
Feb 15 to Mar 13: Future Folk by Sulong Theatre Collective (Theatre Passe Muraille "Toronto" season)
Feb 16 to 20: Once and for all we’re gonna tell you who we are so shut up and listen (Ontroerend Goed and Kopergietery – Belgium & Harbourfront Centre World Stage)
Feb 16 to 20: New work by Toronto Dance Theatre (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps dance series at Fleck Dance Theatre) www.harbourfrontcentre.com/nextsteps
Feb 23 to Apr 4: Communion by Daniel MacIvor (Tarragon Theatre) http://www.tarragontheatre.com/
Feb 23 to Mar 6: Rebecca Northan in Blind Date (Harbourfront Centre World Stage)
Feb 24 to 28: confluence by Peggy Baker Dance Projects (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps dance series at Enwave Dance Theatre) www.harbourfrontcentre.com/nextsteps
Feb 26 to 28: Diasporic Dimensions by COBA / Collective of Black Artists) (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps dance series at Fleck Dance Theatre) www.harbourfrontcentre.com/nextsteps
Mar 3 to 6: Do Animals Cry (Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods - Germany/Belgium & Harbourfront Centre World Stage)
Mar 3 to 7: 24 Preludes by Chopin & A Suite of Dances & The Four Seasons (National Ballet of Canada at the Four Seasons Centre)
Mar 4 to 6: Lost & Found/Denise Fujiwara & Fidelity's Edge/Susie Burpee (Danceworks at Enwave Theatre) http://www.danceworks.ca/
Mar 8 to Apr 1: The Monster Under the Bed by Kevin Dyer (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young Audiences)
Mar 8 to Apr 3: The Overwhelming by J.T. Rogers (Studio 180 at The Canadian Stage Company)
Mar 10 to 27: New Ideas Festival (Alumnae Theatre Company – 90th season) http://www.alumnaetheatre.com/
Mar 11 to 13: Loin... / Far... (Rachid Ouramdane L’A – France & Harbourfront Centre World Stage)
Mar 11 to 21: Swan Lake (National Ballet of Canada at the Four Seasons Centre)
Mar 13 to Apr 4: who knew grannie: a dub aria by ahdri zhina mandiela (Obsidian Theatre at Factory Theatre)
Mar 15 to Apr 10: Art by Yasmina Reza trans. Christopher Hampton (The Canadian Stage Company)
Mar 15 to Apr 18: : Young Frankenstein (Mirvish Productions)
Mar 17 to Apr 4: Breakfast by Anna Chatterton & Evalyn Parry (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)Mar 18 to 20: inDANCE – BOX (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps dance series at Fleck Dance Theatre) www.harbourfrontcentre.com/nextsteps
Mar 18 to 21: The Kreutzer Sonata (Art of Time Ensemble)
Mar 18 to 27: Birnam Wood by Allyson McMachon (Rusticle Theatre with Theatre Passe Muraille)
Mar 24 to 26: Opera to Go (Tapestry Theatre 30th anniversary) http://www.tapestrynewopera.com/
Mar 24 to 27: On the Side of the Road (Theatre Junction & Harbourfront Centre World Stage)
Spring 2010: The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Opera Atelier at the Elgin Theatre)
Apr 7 to 10: relay: (Ame Henderson Public Recordings & Harbourfront Centre World Stage)
Apr 7 to 11: SLAGUE L'histoire d'un mineur (SPITTING SLAGUE) by Mansel Robinson (Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario, Sudbury & Théâtre français de Toronto)
Apr 7 to 18: Grease starring American Idol’s Taylor Hicks (Mirvish at Canon Theatre)
Apr 8 to 24: Giiwedin by Spy Dénommé-Welch. Music by Catherine Magowan & Spy Dénommé-Welch (Native Earth Performing Arts at Theatre Passe Muraille)
Apr 9 & 10: Cock-Pit (Wen Wei Dance & Danceworks at Fleck Dance Theatre) http://www.danceworks.ca/
Apr 12 to May 8: This Is What Happens Next by Daniel MacIvor and Daniel Brooks (Necessary Angel at The Canadian Stage Company)
Apr 13-24: Crocosmia (Little Bulb Theatre & Farnham Maltings at Theatre Passe Muraille)
Apr 14 & 15: RAGE by Michele Riml (Théâtre la Catapulte, Ottawa, NAV & Théâtre français de Toronto)
Apr 14 to May 23: If We Were Birds by Erin Shields (Groundwater Productions & Tarragon Theatre)
Apr 15 to 17: Sankofa by Ballet Creole (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps dance series at Fleck Dance Theatre) www.harbourfrontcentre.com/nextsteps
Apr 16 to May 1: The Queens by Normand Chaurette, trans. Linda Gaboriau (Alumnae Theatre Company – 90th season) http://www.alumnaetheatre.com/
Apr 18 to 29: Thrice Upon a Time by Jacqueline Gosselin (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young Audiences)
Apr 18 to May 21: Hana’s Suitcase by Emil Sher (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young Audiences)
Apr 23 & 24: El12 (Compagnie La Otra Orilla & Danceworks at Enwave Theatre) http://www.danceworks.ca/
Apr 24 to May 20: The Flying Dutchman - revival (Canadian Opera Company 60th anniversary) Apr 27 to Jun 27: Mamma Mia! (Mirvish at Canon Theatre)
Apr 28 to May 15: Fragments de mensonges inutiles (Fragments of Unnecessary Lies) by Michel Tremblay (Théâtre français de Toronto)
May 1 to 9: The Soul of Gershwin (Harold Green Jewish Theatre at Winter Garden Theatre) http://www.hgjewishtheatre.com/
May 1 to 30: Maria Stuarda (Canadian Opera Company 60th anniversary)
May 3 to 29: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley adapt. Jonathan Christenson (Catalyst Theatre at The Canadian Stage Company)
May 4 to 8: Giselle (Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre – Ireland & Harbourfront Centre World Stage)
May 8 to May 23: The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown (Angelwalk Theatre at the Studio Theatre, Toronto Centre for the Arts)
May 9 to 29: Idomeneo (Canadian Opera Company 60th anniversary closing)
May 10 to 20: In This World by Hannah Moscovitch (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young Audiences)
May 13 to 15: Isolated Incidents (Ipsita Nova Dance Projects & Danceworks at Enwave Theatre) http://www.danceworks.ca/
May 13 to 15: We're Funny That Way (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)
May 25 & 26: Songbook 4 (Art of Time Ensemble)
May 27 to 29: dance Immersion – 2010 Showcase Presentation (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps dance series at Fleck Dance Theatre) www.harbourfrontcentre.com/nextsteps
Jun: Dark Star Requiem (Tapestry Theatre 30th anniversary) http://www.tapestrynewopera.com/
Summer 2010 (run dates TBA): As You Like It by William Shakespeare (Stratford Shakespeare Festival) http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/
Summer 2010 (run dates TBA): Kiss Me, Kate by Cole Porter & Bella and Samuel Spewack (Stratford Shakespeare Festival) http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/
Summer 2010 (run dates TBA): Dangerous Liaisons by Christopher Hampton (Stratford Shakespeare Festival) http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/
Summer 2010 (run dates TBA): The Tempest by William Shakespeare(Stratford Shakespeare Festival) http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/
Summer 2010 (run dates TBA): Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie (Stratford Shakespeare Festival) http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/
Summer 2010 (run dates TBA): Evita by Andrew Lloyd Weber & Tim Rice (Stratford Shakespeare Festival) http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/
Summer 2010 (run dates TBA): The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare (Stratford Shakespeare Festival) http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/
Summer 2010 (run dates TBA): Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris by Jacques Brel & Eric Blau (Stratford Shakespeare Festival) http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/
Summer 2010 (run dates TBA): For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again by Michel Tremblay (Stratford Shakespeare Festival) http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/
Summer 2010 (run dates TBA): King of Thieves by George F. Walker (Stratford Shakespeare Festival) http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/
Summer 2010 (run dates TBA): The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare (Stratford Shakespeare Festival) http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/
Summer 2010 (run dates TBA): Do Not Go Gentle by Leon Pownall (Stratford Shakespeare Festival) http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/
Jun 4 to 13: West Side Story Suite & World Premiere by Jorma Elo & Opus 19/The Dreamer (National Ballet of Canada at the Four Seasons Centre)
June 16 to 27: Sexy Pride (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)
Jun 19 to 25: Onegin (National Ballet of Canada at the Four Seasons Centre)
Jul 6 to August 8: Legally Blonde the Musical by Laurence O’Keefe, Nell Benjamin & Heather Hach (Mirvish at Canon Theatre)

Toronto Theatre & Dance Listings Fall 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
• Inefinite 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

LIMITED RUNS:

• To Sep 6: The Tempest by William Shakespeare (The Canadian Stage Company TD Dream in High Park)
• To Sep 19: Innocence Lost: A Play About Steven Truscott by Miles Potter (Blyth Festival)
• To Sep 20: The Entertainer by John Osborne (Shaw Festival)
• To Oct 2: Bartholomew Fair by Ben Jonson (Stratford Festival)
• To Oct 3: Phèdre by Jean Racine, Rice Boy by Sunil Kuruvilla, Zastrozzi by George F. Walker, Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov (Stratford Festival)
• To Oct 4: The Trespassers by Morris Panych (Stratford Festival)
• To Oct 9: In Good King Charles’s Golden Days by George Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival)
• To Oct 10: Albertine in Five Times by Michel Tremblay, trans. Linda Gaboriau (Shaw Festival)
• To Oct 11: Star Chamber by Noël Coward, The Devil’s Disciple by George Bernard Shaw, Ways of the Heart by Noël Coward (Shaw Festival)
• To Oct 24: Brief Encounters by Noël Coward (Shaw Festival)
• To Oct 24: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee, The Guardsman by Ferenc Molnar (Soulpepper)
• To Oct 30: A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (Stratford Festival)
• To Oct 31: Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival)
• To Oct 31: Play, Orchestra, Play by Noël Coward (Shaw Festival)
• To Nov 1: Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, trans. Anthony Burgess (Stratford Festival)
• To Nov 7: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by Burt Shevelove, Larry Gelbart & Stephen Sondheim (Stratford Festival)
• To Nov 8: West Side Story by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim (Stratford Festival)
• To Nov 1: Sunday in the Park with George by James Lepine & Stephen Sondheim, Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin (Shaw Festival)
• To Nov 9: A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O’Neill (Shaw Festival)
• Sep 10 to Oct 17: Antigone by Sophocles, trans. Evan Webber & Chris Abraham (Soulpepper)
• Sep 15 to Oct 25: Mimi, or A Poisoner's Comedy by Allen Cole, Melody A. Johnson & Rick Roberts (Tarragon Theatre)
• Sep 16 to 27: Goodness by Michael Redhill (Volcano Theatre at The Theatre Centre)
• Sep 16 to Oct 3: Nursery School Musical by Brett & Racheal McCaig. Music by Anthony Bastianon. (Fence Post Productions at Berkeley Street Theatre Upstairs)
• Sep 16 to Oct 4: The Refugee Hotel by Carmen Aguirre (Alameda Theatre Company & Theatre Passe Muraille)
• Sep 22 to Oct 3: The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca (New Teatro Theatre Company at the Papermill Theatre)
• Sep 22 to Nov 1: The Boys in the Photograph by Andrew Lloyd Webber & Ben Elton (Mirvish Productions at Royal Alexandra Theatre)
• Sep 23 to 25: three (firstthingsfirst productions & Danceworks at Enwave Theatre)
• Sep 23 to Oct 10: Neon Nightz by Sasha Van Bon Bon & Kitty Neptune (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)
• Sep 23 to Oct 11: Altar Boyz by Kevin Del Aguila, Gary Adler & Michael Patrick Walker (Angelwalk Theatre at the Studio Theatre, Toronto Centre for the Arts)
• Sep 25 & 26: Voyage of Awakening by Menaka Thakkar Dance Company (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps dance series at Fleck Dance Theatre)
• Sep 25 to 27: Opera Briefs ((Tapestry Theatre 30th anniversary)
• Sep 25 to Oct 3: Secrets of a Black Boy by Darren Anthony (Trey Anthony Productions at The Music Hall) Secrets of a Black Boy
• Sep 25 to Oct 10: A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee (Alumnae Theatre Company – 90th season) Alumnae Theatre
• Sep 26 & 27: Abbey Road (Art of Time Ensemble)
• Sep 26 to Nov 3: Madama Butterfly (Canadian Opera Company 60th anniversary opening)
• Sep 28 to Oct 24: Rock ‘n’ Roll by Tom Stoppard (The Canadian Stage Company with Edmonton's Citadel Theatre)
• Oct 6 to 10: The Walworth Farce by Enda Walsh (Druid – Ireland & Harbourfront Centre World Stage) Harbourfrontcentre.com/worldstage
• Oct 7 to 11: Théâtre Extrème by Jean-Guy Legeault (Théâtre français de Toronto)
• Oct 8 to 17: Salt Baby by Falen Johnson – workshop production (Native Earth Performing Arts at Theatre Passe Muraille)
• Oct 8 to 25: Spent (Theatre Smith-Gilmour, Why Not Theatre & TheatreRUN at Factory Studio Theatre)
• Oct 13 to 18: Sholem Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears Winter Garden Theatre) http://www.hgjewishtheatre.com/
• Oct 14 to 17: ProArteDanza (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps dance series at Fleck Dance Theatre)
• Oct 15 to 31: Bash'd: A Gay Rap Opera by Chris Craddock & Nathan Cuckow (Theatre Passe Muraille)
• Oct 17 to Nov 5: The Nightingale and Other Short Fables dir. Robert Lepage (Canadian Opera Company 60th anniversary)
• Oct 20 to 25: Stomp (Mirvish Productions at Canon Theatre)
• Oct 21 to 23: Canonize This! Play development series (Obsidian Theatre)
• Oct 22 to 31: Hysteria, A Festival of Women (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)
• Oct 23 & 24: SAMVĀD by Lata Pada / Sampradaya Dance Creations (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps dance series at Enwave Dance Theatre)
• Oct 25 to Nov 15: The Drowning Girls by Beth Graham, Charlie Tomlinson & Daniela Vlaskilic (Bent Out Of Shape & Tarragon Theatre)
• Oct 26 to Nov 21: That Face by Polly Stenham (Nightwood Theatre at The Canadian Stage Company)
• Oct 27 to Nov 2: Blood by The Chimera Project (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps dance series at Enwave Dance Theatre)
• Oct 31 to Nov 7: Iphigénie en Tauride by Christoph Willibald Gluck (Opera Atelier at the Elgin Theatre)
• Oct 31 to at least Jan 3: The Toxic Avenger by Lloyd Kaufman, adapt. Joe DiPietro & David Bryan, starring Louise Pitre (Dancap Productions at The Music Hall)
• Nov 2 to 12: Yellowman by Dael Orlandersmith (Nightwood Theatre & Obsidian Theatre at Berkeley Street Theatre)
• Nov 4 to 7: Kudelka Evening by Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps dance series at Fleck Dance Theatre)
• Nov 4 to Dec 13: Rocking The Cradle by Federico Garcia Lorca adapt. Des Walsh (RCA Theatre Company & Tarragon Theatre)
• Nov 5 to 15: August: Osage County (Mirvish Productions at Canon Theatre)
  Nov 6 & 7: The Vision Impure (Noam Gagnon & Danceworks at Enwave Theatre)
• Nov 7: Ben Heppner concert (Canadian Opera Company 60th anniversary)
• Nov 7 to 29: My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding (Mirvish Productions at Panasonic Theatre)
• Nov 9 to Dec 5: 7 Stories by Morris Panych (Canadian Stage Company)
• Nov 10 to 20: Blind Spot by Meghan Gardiner (Green Thumb Theatre & Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young Audiences)
• Nov 12 to 15: ¡Lorca! In Search of Duende (Esmeralda Enrique Spanish Dance Company at Fleck Dance Theatre) http://www.flamencos.net/
• Nov 12 to 29: Necessary Angel’s Hamlet (Harbourfront Centre World Stage)
• Nov 13 to 22: The Sleeping Beauty (National Ballet of Canada at the Four Seasons Centre)
• Nov 13 to 28: Talking Masks by Adam Seelig (One Little Goat Theatre Company at Walmer Centre Theatre) http://www.onelittlegoat.org/
• Nov 13 to 28: Palace Of The End by Judith Thompson (Alumnae Theatre Company – 90th season) http://www.alumnaetheatre.com/
• Nov 14 to 21: The Silicone Diariesby Nina Arsenault (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)
• Nov 14 to Dec 23: Stuff Happens by David Hare (Mirvish Productions at Royal Alexandra Theatre)
• Nov 15 to Dec 30: The Princess and the Handmaiden by Leslie Arden (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young Audiences)
• Nov 17 & 18: Radio City Christmas Spectacular at Air Canada Centre
• Nov 18 to 21: Displacement by HCA Dance Theatre (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps dance series at Fleck Dance Theatre)
• Nov 25 to 29: World Premiere by Aszure Barton & The Four Temperaments & Glass Pieces (National Ballet of Canada at the Four Seasons Centre)
• Nov 25 to Dec 12: Letters to my Grandma by Anusree Roy (Theatre Passe Muraille)
• Nov 26 to Jan 3: Robin Hood (Ross Petty Productions at Elgin Theatre) http://www.rosspetty.com/
• Nov 26 to Dec 24: Parfumerie, adapt. Adam Pettle & Brenda Robins (Soulpepper)
• Dec 1 to 12: The Salon Automaton by Nathalie Claude (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)
• Dec 2: 30th Anniversary Celebration (Tapestry Theatre 30th anniversary)
• Dec 2 to 12: Les noirs sont heureux byMartin David Peters / Rendez-vous Lakay by Djennie Laguerre (Théâtre français de Toronto)
• Dec 2 to 5: To Be Straight with You (DV8 Physical Theatre – England & Harbourfront Centre World Stage)
• Dec 3 to 24: Civil Elegies by Dennis Lee, created by Mike Ross & Lorenzo Savoini (Soulpepper)
• Dec 4 & 5: Brasil (Art of Time Ensemble)
• Dec 7 to 19: There’s a Mouse in My House by Carrie Costello (Carousel Players & Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young Audiences)
• Dec 11 to 13: Soulful Messiah by Ballet Creole (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps dance series at Fleck Dance Theatre)
• Dec 12 to Jan 3: The Nutcracker (National Ballet of Canada at the Four Seasons Centre)
• Dec 8 to Jan 10: Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein, Sholem Aleichem, Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick, starring Chaim Topol (Mirvish Productions at Canon Theatre)
• Dec 18 & 19: Wintersong 2009 – Dances for a Sacred Season by Canadian Children’s Dance Theatre (Harbourfront Centre NextSteps dance series at Fleck Dance Theatre)
• Dec 30 to Feb 4: Courageous by Michael Healey (Citadel Theatre & Tarragon Theatre)