Life, death and music are brought to the stage
Theresa Tova plays a mother who interrupts her daughter and son-in-law’s romantic evening with an abrupt lesson about their immigrant family’s history in Adam Seelig’s latest venture.
Play set in the 1930s feels relevant today
Award-winning actress Sarah Orenstein brings her four decades of stage performance to the Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company’s production of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs, running from May 22 to June 10 in Toronto.
Playwright finds herself in a very different place
The central character of Carol Libman’s new intergenerational drama is a singer whose ambition and dreams have hurt two of the people she’s closest to.
Slam poetry meets journalism in (Jew)nique show
David Silverberg created a one-man show that highlights influential Jewish-Canadian trailblazers in a variety of fields.
Musical questions what it means to be truly Canadian
Written by noted Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch, with music by Hamilton-born folk singer Ben Caplan, the play just finished a seven-week off-Broadway run and embarks on a tour, starting in Edmonton.
Segal Centre features more Jewish content in 2018-19 season
Jewish content is being strengthened at Montreal’s Segal Centre for Performing Arts in the coming season, with three of the seven plays in the subscription series featuring Jewish themes, and the return of a full Yiddish production.
From stage to screen: Stratford’s Romeo and Juliet hits theatres
The theatre company’s 2017 production of Romeo and Juliet screens in 67 Cineplex screens nationwide on March 3.
Arthur Miller play is a portrait of 1930s America
Broken Glass takes place in Brooklyn and uses the events of Kristallnacht in Germany as a background.
Play explores conflict between one’s art and religion
My Name is Asher Lev tells the story of a young Jewish artist in the 1950s, who is torn between his chassidic upbringing and his desperate need to fulfill his creative promise.
The Aliens come to Toronto
Coal Mine Theatre is running the Canadian premiere of Annie Baker’s The Aliens , one of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright’s four Vermont Plays.
