On Now
August: Osage County
To November 15
A father's disappearance sends a family into turmoil in this Pulitzer and Tony award-winning play.
• The Canon Theatre, 244 Victoria Street
• Visit Mirvish.com
My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding
Tickets on sale to December 13
After its successful run during the 2009 Toronto Fringe Festival, this new musical comedy makes the move to the Mirvish stage.
• The Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge Street
• Visit Mirvish.com
The Sound of Music
To January 3, 2010
TV competition winner Elicia MacKenzie stars as Maria with co-How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? contestant Janna Polzin stepping in as her alternate twice a week.
• The Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King Street West
• Visit Mirvish.com/tsom/
The Toxic Avenger Musical
Tickets on sale to January 3rd, 2010
DanCap Productions presents this stage version of the "classic" Troma cult film about a waste-mutated man out to save his city from environmental disaster.
• The Music Hall, 147 Danforth Avenue
• www.toxicavengertoronto.com
Jersey Boys
Tickets on sale to March 21, 2010
Winner of the 2006 Tony Award for Best Musical, Jersey Boys is about the rise of the 1960's hit band The Four Seasons.
• Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge Street
• www.JerseyBoysToronto.com
Coming Soon
National Ballet of Canada - The Sleeping Beauty
November 13-22
"The Sleeping Beauty is a ballet that epitomizes, perhaps better than any other, the meaning of classical ballet. Never simply a retelling of the well-known fairy tale, the ballet is conceivably the greatest of the Tchaikovsky-Petipa collaborations."
• The Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts,
145 Queen Street West
• www.national.ballet.ca
Stuff Happens
November 14 - December 23
"Beginning with the first days of the Bush administration and following its march to war, Stuff Happens is a dramatic speculation, authenticated from multiple real-life sources, on the behind-closed-door proceedings that have shaped recent world events."
• The Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King St. W.
• Visit Mirvish.com
Necessary Angel's Hamlet
November 17 - 29
Necessary Angel Theatre Company partners with UK director and designer Graham McLaren for a "unique, immediate and violent 110-minute live theatre experiment seething with amorality where nothing is set and every performance is different."
• Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay West
• www.harbourfrontcentre.com/worldstage
National Ballet of Canada - World Premiere by Aszure Barton & The Four Temperaments & Glass Pieces
November 25-29
"Aszure Barton’s energetic, often riotously complex and utterly uncategorizable dances, commissioned by, among others, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Martha Graham Dance Company and Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, have drawn praise and superlatives from all quarters."
• The Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts,
145 Queen Street West
• www.national.ballet.ca
Robin Hood: The EnvironMENTAL Family Musical
November 26, 2009 - January 3, 2010
Eva Avila, Dan Chameroy, Jessica Holmes, Jeff Irving, Yvan Pedneault and Ross Petty star in this Fractured Fairytale, an eco-themed version of the classic story which sees Sherwood Forest in danger of being destroyed by the Sheriff of Nottingham, CEO of Nottingham Lumber.
• Elgin Theatre, 189 Yonge Street
• rosspetty.com
National Ballet of Canada - The Nutcracker
December 12, 2009 - January 3, 2010
James Kudelka’s version of the perennial classic.
• The Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts,
145 Queen Street West
• www.national.ballet.ca
