I'll probably do another post talking about some of the longer distance trips I may attempt to pull off, but that can wait a bit longer. I thought I probably should try to get the more local stuff together into one place.
Theatre Passe Muraille: They haven't announced their full season, but they have a teaser. They are co-sponsoring an operetta called Canoe over at Trinity Spadina St. Paul's while they are renovating the main theatre. I'll probably go, though this only runs Sept. 12-16.
I'm not sure if I already talked about Crow's Theatre. While it is getting fairly spendy, even with a subscription, this season looks pretty good. I'm probably going to see The Master Plan on Sept. 17, and I am also looking forward to Heroes of the Fourth Turning (by the Howland Company) in October and A Terrible Fate by Cliff Cardinal (which is actually going to take place at the Video Cabaret theatre just off Queen) also in October.
So far Video Cabaret hasn't indicated if they are doing The Cold War Part 2 in the spring or summer, but I certainly hope so. So far, they have not been as active as I hoped or expected.
In recent years, Soulpepper has been doing a very slow reveal of their season, which I find very off-putting. Anyway, I'll probably check out Wildwoman in October, but there is nothing else of interest at the moment.
I have to admit, I am just not that interested in Coal Mine this season, and I am going to skip them completely this year. While I didn't really need to see Godot again, I would still have preferred that over Hedda Gabbler...
It really is a topsy-turvy year. I am subscribing to Canadian Stage for the first time in years and blanking Coal Mine. This season I am planning on checking out Topdog/Underdog in late Sept., The Lehman Trilogy in November and The Inheritance in the spring.
Buddies in Bad Times looks like they have a lot that is of interest to me, so I need to figure out how to piece together a subscription. Angels in America is back in late Nov./early Dec., and I'll need to see that again. (I so hope this relatively small company can pull it off.) I think I mentioned that one of the things that was part of the Summerworks (I am Your Spaniel) is getting a better staging at Buddies in January with a couple of companion pieces I'll probably check out, and Theatre Rusticle* is doing The Tempest in the later half of Jan. (I'll have to fit this around TRB on the off-chance that my paper is accepted and I can finagle my way down to DC, but that's something to worry about later.) So overall, a very exciting season.
I'm moderately interested in Alumnae's season: Erin Shields' If We Were Birds (drawn from Ovid) in early Oct., George F. Walker's Better Living in Jan. and Lucy Kirkwood's The Children in March. I am most interested in Better Living, but if the season subscription is priced reasonably, I will go ahead and do that.
I'll probably pass on the first play that Toronto Irish Players are doing - Brownbread by Roddy Doyle, but I just might see this Irish version of Tremblay's Les Belles-Soeurs (as I am seeing the original, albeit in English translation, at Stratford at the end of the week!).
Factory has an odd season. They are remounting The Waltz in early September. I already saw that (at Factory), so I'll pass. Then in Nov./Dec. they are doing two Daniel MacIvor monologues (but with different actors) and then in March there is a portmanteau play by four authors called In the Kitchen. I'd probably subscribe to see the other three plays, but I do need to know the cost before I commit.
Tarragon continues in the long tradition of only having a few things of interest to me. I definitely want to see Withrow Park in Nov., and probably El Terremoto in April. Most likely I'll rush both...
There isn't anything currently announced at the Theatre Centre that I want to see, but stuff pops up there at the last minute all the time. I know that Shakespeare Bash'd will be doing something there, probably in early 2024, and I'll have to try to get to that.
I'm never all that interested in Mirvish, but sometimes the off-Mirvish plays are interesting. They are doing a transfer of Crow's Theatre's production of Uncle Vanya in Feb. I'm sure it will be terrific, but I've already seen it, so will pass. But in March, they are doing Rozencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. I will certain plan on seeing this and will book my tickets the minute they send me a working coupon code...
There are a couple of oddballs where rights have been applied for, but I don't know if the production will actually happen, so I'll just need to keep my eyes peeled. Apparently Outside the March might put on Hnath's A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney in late April, and then someone else might stage Lucy Kirkwood's Mosquitoes in late April as well. Hopefully, one of the two (or both) actually pull it off.
Moving slightly further from home, I'm almost certain that Brock is going to be doing Posner's Stupid F@cking Bird the first week of Nov., and I'll try to swing that (once this is actually confirmed).
In Hamilton, Dundas Little Theatre has a pretty solid season. The only play that I really feel I have to see is Lobby Hero in April/May, but I might decide to see Arsenic and Old Lace in November and/or Bess Wohl's Grand Horizons in January. It might even be worth just going to one of these shows just to make sure I can figure out the directions before I make the trek out for Lobby Hero!
Already I can feel the calendar is going to be a little tricky, esp. in October and maybe Jan. and April, but I can probably make it work for plays in and around Toronto. All bets are off once I start looking at theatre more than an hour away from here.
* I recall that Theatre Rusticle more or less disbanded a few years back, but apparently it is being resurrected, which is great news.
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