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2008 -2009 Season Opener: Agokwe
:: A new work for 23-year-old Ojibwa artist Waawaate Fobister. Developed through Buddies
Queer Youth Arts Programme, Agokwe explores unrequited love between Jake and Mike, two young men from neighboring reserves. The two meet briefly at a post-hockey tournament party where they bashfully express their
mutual feelings for each other. However youth, distance and social isolation strive to pull the threads apart when tragedy intervenes.
Sept. 23 - Oct. 12
Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander St. | Tickets: $15 - $29 Phone: 416 975-8555 or order online by clicking here For further information, please click here
Phone: 416 975-8555
[boxhead]
:: A young geneticist wakes up to discover a box secured to his head; he finds all his
thoughts come from God, all his words come from the devil and his desire for love is a habit acquired from the movies. Sound familiar? Don't be so hard on yourself. From the addled consciousness that brought you
Diplomatic Immunities and White Mice comes [boxhead]: a bedtime story for your brain. An intricately woven semantic circus, [boxhead] is a bucolic frolic through the pathetic nightmarish minefield of Western
consciousness filled with omniscient narrators, metaphysical ruminations, musical numbers and poop jokes ... all set to the live accompaniment of musician/composer Romano Di Nillo.
Oct. 18 - Nov. 2
Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander St. | Tickets: $15 - $29 Phone: 416 975-8555 or order online by clicking here For further information, please click here
Phone: 416 975-8555
Dirty Dancing: The Classic Love Story On Stage
:: Proclaimed "The time of your life, again!" by London's Daily Telegraph,
Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage's London productionreceived 4 Stars from The Times, The Independent, The Financial Times, The Evening Standard, The Mail on Sunday, The Sunday Times and
Time Out London. With unforgettable songs like "Hungry Eyes," the Academy Award-winning "(I've had) The Time Of My Life," and classics like "Do You Love Me?" Dirty Dancing is a popular culture icon.
It is a coming of age love story involving the talented and headstrong dancer Johnny Castle and Frances "Baby" Houseman. During her family's summer holiday at the popular Kellerman's resort, Baby, a doctor's
daughter with dreams of joining the Peace Corps, meets Johnny, the guy from the wrong side of the tracks. Against all odds, they fall in love, learning life-changing lessons along the way.
Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage, follows the highs and lows of their summer romance.
Until Feb. 1, 2009
Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King St. W. | Tickets: $40 - $200 Phone: 416 872-1212 or 1 800 461-3333 to order online, please click here Theatre/Hotel/Show packages for $199
We Will Rock You
::We Will Rock Youtells the story of a future Earth where globalization has
eliminated all creativity and idiosyncrasy. Set 300 years in the future, everyone watches the same movies, wears the same clothes and thinks the same thoughts. It's a safe and happy "Ga Ga" world where music is
computer-generated by the Killer Queen. All musical instruments are banned. But resistance is growing. A hero is needed. Is the one who calls himself Galileo that man and can he help them break free?
A unique collaboration between rock titans Queen and Ben Elton, We Will Rock You
has been London's No. 1 show since opening in May 2002. Now in its fifth year in the West End, this immensely popular show has also conquered Australia, Germany, Spain, Russia, Japan and South Africa and has already played to over 5 million fans.
Produced by Robert de Niro's Tribeca Productions, Queen and Phil McIntyre Entertainment, We Will Rock You
delivers a show that reflects the scale and spectacle that marked Queen's live performances and earned the band its pinnacle position in rock history. The collaboration between Tribeca and Queen reaches back
to a chance encounter between band members Brian May and Roger Taylor and De Niro at the Venice Film Festival in 1996. De Niro approached May and Taylor asking if they had ever considered creating a musical based on
their work. It was the genesis of the project that was to become WE WILL ROCK YOU. For the We Will Rock You web site, please click here
Until Jan. 4, 2009 Panasonic Theatre, 651
Yonge St.. | Tickets: $20 - $94 On sale Nov. 20, 2006 Phone 416.872.1212 or 1.800.461.3333 or for online purchase, please click here
Jersey Boys
:: Jersey Boys is about Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons: How four blue-collar boys became one of the biggest American pop music
sensations. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide - all before age 30.
extended to Dec. 6 Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge St. (North of Sheppard in North York) | Tickets:
$55 - $125 Phone: 416 872-1111 or order online by clicking here
An evening With Uncle Val
:: The 2008-2009 season kicks off with one of Theatre Passe Muraille's "favourite
sons" - and one of Canada's too: Newfoundland's Andy Jones in his acclaimed one-man show, An Evening with Uncle Val. It is 1987, and Uncle Val, an indignantly sarcastic 70-year-old retired
fisherman, displaced from his outport home, is now trapped in the suburbs of the big city of St. John's with his daughter's family.
wonderful comic meditation on Newfoundland, daily life and everyone's fear of mortality" - The Chronicle Herald (Halifax)
:: Set in Calcutta, India,
Pyaasa
explores issues surrounding the caste system, a discriminatory form of social stratification into which every Hindu is born. At the bottom of this hierarchy are the Untouchables, a group seen as sub-human by members of the Hindu caste system.
Nominated for two 2008 Dora Mavor Moore Awards in the Independent Theatre Division (Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Performance for a Female), Pyaasa
tells the story, with subtlety and nuanced truth, of an eleven-year-old Untouchable girl named Chaya. When Chaya's mother begs a woman from a higher caste to give Chaya a job at a local tea stall, Chaya's journey from "childhood" to "adulthood" begins - a journey that occurs in ten days.
:: Thrill to the acrobatic movement of the company that brought you me me me...
and Lili
as they weave a tale of daring, risk, and mystery. Follow three brothers as they play near the forbidden railway tracks and witness Gabriel as he conquers his fear of heights through the help of a mysterious little girl.
Sept. 29 - Oct. 11 Lorraine Kimsa Theatre For Young People, 165 Front St. E. | Tickets: $15 - $20 Phone: 416 862-2222 or online by clicking here
Theatre Gargantua: Fibber
:: From the award-winning company that created e-DENTITY and
Raging Dreams – into the visceral, FIBBER
is Theatre Gargantua's newest multidisciplinary adventure; exploring the slippery relationship between the truth we instinctively seek and the untruth our happiness depends on. Integrating animation
technologies with live performance, and featuring a set with 1020 hand-tied knots in 2000 feet of rope, TG's daring ensemble goes beyond expectation to unravel the sometimes humorous, sometimes haunting inner workings
of the human psyche. Special Nuit Blanche performance Oct. 4.
Oct. 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17 & 18 @ 8:00 PMThe Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen St. W. (Entrance on
Dovercourt Rd.) | Tickets: $18 - $25 Phone: 416 260-4660 or order online by clicking here
Little Pear Garden Collective: Salt Fish Girl
:: Simultaneously set in 19th century China and a futuristic British Columbia,
Salt Fish Girl, by the award winning author Larissa Lai,tells the story of Miranda, a young woman who is filled with the memories of people and events that occurred before she was born. Little
Pear Garden Collective presents a unique and mesmerizing integration of multiple artistic disciplines that brings together three Chinese-Canadian artists: Aries Cheung, visual artist; Emily Cheung, choreographer, dancer
and Artistic Director of Little Pear Garden Collective; and Gein Wong, music composer and writer. The performance will draw upon traditional and modern art forms, including the use of cutting-edge motion
sensing technology that enables a dancer to make music and a musician to create visual art, in order to create an invigorating stage adaptation of this prophetic science fiction novel.
