Preview: You Can't Take It With You

Playing until the very end of June is You Can't Take It With You from the Soulpepper family. There are still a few pre-performance and post Q & A chats to check out over the next few months, and with a cast and director You Can't is boasting it kind of sounds like a dream, especially for all you theatre lovers.


Show Description:
The chaotic, eccentric lives of the Sycamore family are thrown into unaccustomed order when their sensible daughter Alice brings a prospective beau and his conservative parents home for dinner. Kaufman and Hart are at their frenetic best with this Pulitzer Prize-winning romp. 

YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU
Written by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart

Playing at Soulpepper (Young Centre) in the Distillery District

Directed by Joseph Ziegler 
Featuring Brian Bisson, Derek Boyes, Raquel Duffy, Patricia Fagan, John Jarvis, Diego Matamoros, Nancy Palk, Krystin Pellerin, Eric Peterson, Gregory Prest, Brenda Robins, Sabryn Rock, Mike Ross, Andre Sills, Michael Simpson, Maria Vacratsis and Tim Ziegler.

Preview: The Test

The Test has just opened at the Berkeley Street Theatre. The piece is said to be challenging, witty and quite dark. We are excited to check it out this week!

Show Description:

The Test is a dark comedy by rising Swiss playwright Lukas Bärfuss, in a production starring Canadian Stage favourite Eric Peterson.

The "test" of the title is a paternity test – one that Peter Korach undergoes to find out if his son is really biologically his. Having opted to build happiness in his private life (rather than politics, as did his father before him), Korach finds the test results shattering.

Bärfuss's witty exploration of what the paternity test means for today's family - and, on a deeper level, what happens when we allow science to act as our only barometer of truth – will have you on the edge of your seat, and thinking deeply about the ties that bind us to those we love.

THE TEST

WRITTEN BY: Lukas Bärfuss
DIRECTED BY: Jason Byrne
TRANSLATED BY: Birgit Schreyer Duarte
STARING: Eric Peterson, Sonja Smits, Gord Rand, Liisa Repo-Martell and Philip Riccio

October 31st-November 26th 2011
Berkeley Street Theatre
Toronto, Ontario

For Tickets call Box office 416-368-3110 or please click the header!

The Test from The Company Theatre

A wonderful company in the city is back this year with a very intriguing piece. The Company theatre brought us Through the Leaves last year and we are excited to see what they deliver on stage this year with The Test.

This is the first video in their four-part mini-documentary series by director Mike Schultz, which captures a behind-the-scenes look at the rehearsal process for the upcoming production of The Test." The piece will be starring Eric Peterson, Sonja Smits, Gord Rand, Liisa Repo-Martell and Philip Riccio.

For more info or to purchase tickets please click the header.

The Company Theatre (Part One) from The Company Theatre on Vimeo

Billy Bishop Goes to War

Soulpepper is at it again this summer bringing delicious theatre offerings to the Toronto community. Consistency folks. Currently they have brought to life one of Canadian theatre’s enduring legacies in Billy Bishop Goes to War, a soaring and exhilarating masterpiece. Original creators Eric Peterson and John Gray return to the stage in this timeless story of World War One fighter pilot Billy Bishop that has delighted audiences around the world for more than 30 years.

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Billy Bishop Goes to War
Directed by Ted Dykstra
Featuring John Gray, Eric Peterson

Young Centre for the Performing Arts
55 Mill Street,
Building 49
Toronto, ON