May 2008 - This Month

She could have danced all night: The acclaimed West End production of My Fair Lady sings its way to Toronto with a trunk load of gorgeous costumes and Broadway's most beloved score.

Dance: The legacy of dance genius Alvin Ailey lives on with the exciting Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre.

Festival Stages: The Shaw Festival opens its season with J.B. Priestley's ingenious thriller An Inspector Calls.

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival presents theatre's most endurable lovers in Romeo and Juliet.

Banner photo credits: L to R: Cirque du Soleil's Les Baroques from Saltimbanco; The National Ballet of Canada's Cinderella, Photo: by Cylla von Tiedemann; Measha Brueggergosman in Opera Atelier's Idomeneo, Photo: by Bruce Zinger; Lisa O'Hare as Eliza Doolittle in Dancap Productions My Fair Lady, Photo: by Joan Marcus.

Openings: Week of May 12, 2008. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre at the Sony Centre; Bella Donna at the Berkeley St. Theatre Upstairs; The Eco Show at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre; Falling to Grace at the Pia Bouman Studio Theatre; I Am Not Neil Young at the Black Swan Tavern; Two STroke Roll at the Factory Theatre.
Photo: by Tim Matheson. Maiko Bae Yamamoto in The Sexual Practices of the Japanese at the Factory Theatre. See Previews


Recent Reviews: Dead Ahead at the Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People; Alias Godot at the Tarragon Theare; Cranked at the Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People; The December Man at the Berkeley St. Theatre; Beyond Mozambique at the Factory Theatre; The Fall at the Tarragon Theatre Extra Space; Fire at the Bluma Appel Theatre; As You Like It at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts;The Odd Couple at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts;And All for Love at the National Arts Centre, Ottawa. See Reviews