ONE LAST FIX
After seven seasons of Olivia Pope, Scandal is taking its final bow on Thursday.
SUNDAY
The RISER Project
Watch this if: You want to support the next generation of indie theatre. Last week we featured Mouthpiece in this weekly roundup, a theatre production enjoying another remount before a U.K. tour and a film adaptation. Now, the project that gave it its start — the RISER Project under Why Not Theatre — unveils four more noteworthy performances. Mr. Truth, debuting Sunday, is up first, a sketch-like satire of repressed sexuality by Lauren Gillis and Alaine Hutton. It’s followed on Tuesday by Tell Me What
It’s Called by Ximena Huizi after training in Bolivia and in Ecuador. Two more productions arrive in May — speaking of sneaking by daniel jelani ellis and Every
thing I Couldn’t Tell You by Jeff D’Hondt. (The Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen St. W., through May 12) — Carly Maga
MONDAY
Watching the Detectives at Images
Watch this if: You want to see socialmedia sleuthing in action. You can now guarantee that every time a major tragedy, crime or attack occurs, the internet will overflow with reactions, speculations and full-bore conspiracytheorizing. That’s the phenomenon that local experimental filmmaker and programmer Chris Kennedy captures in
Watching the Detectives, a 36-minute film that consists entirely of real Reddit posts in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing. As is so often the case, no accusation was too wild or too reckless in the online free-for-all. The Images Festival hosts the Toronto premiere with the director in attendance. (Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave., 7 p.m.) — Jason Anderson
THURSDAY
Muhi: Generally Temporary
Watch this if: You want a very moving take on one of the world’s most stubborn conflicts. One of many timely new docs featured at TIFF’s annual Human Rights Watch festival, Muhi: Generally Temporary introduces viewers to Muhi, a boy from Gaza who has been stranded with his grandfather in an Israeli hospital for over eight years. Having been brought there as a baby for an immune disorder that led to the amputation of his limbs, this sweet-tempered youngster is now stuck inside the hospital’s walls due to issues over his citizenship. HRW program director Iain Levine leads a post-screening conversation with physicians Michael Dan and Tarek Loubani. (TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King St. W., 6:30 p.m.) — JA
Betroffenheit
Watch this if: You like the best in contemporary dance. Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite won her second consecutive Olivier Award for best new dance production earlier this month (for her work Flight Pattern), just as the production that earned her the award last year returns to Toronto. Betroffenheit, co-created with performer Jonathan Young, is a devastating piece of contemporary dance and one of the most universally praised Canadian productions to hit the international stage. Tickets will undoubtedly sell out for this remount with Canadian Stage, so don’t be a sad clown and miss out. (Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front St. E., 8 p.m., through Sunday) — CM
Scandal
Watch this if: You want to know how it all ends for Olivia Pope. One of the dramas that made Shonda Rhimes the queen of Thursday-night TV is taking its final bow. Viewers lapped up seven seasons of, well, scandals, including secret love affairs, electionrigging and lots of murder. With former Washington fixer Olivia (Kerry Washington) and her cohorts having decided to fall on their swords over the covert government agency she runs, it remains to be seen if there will be a happy ending for one of TV’s most memorable female characters. (ABC at 10 p.m.) — Debra Yeo
FRIDAY
Symphony of the Sea Watch this if: You see a classical music concert and think, “I wish this was underwater.” The gentle roll of waves, deep-sea plants swaying slowly back and forth, fish dancing up and down and side to side — if you think about it, the marriage of a live classical music concert and the inside of an aquarium should have been made long ago. On Friday, Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada makes it happen with three 45-minute sets from the Toronto Chamber Players orchestra. (288 Bremner Blvd., 7 p.m.) — CM
Caroline Rose
Watch this for: A show she’s described as “not Gwar-status but maybe if Gwar and Devo had a riot grrl baby.” Rose’s rootsy career path took an abrupt turn with latest Loner, on which she doesn’t so much vault over that tricky Record No. 3 hurdle as surf right by it on a technicolour wave. The new songs are a hoot with pop hooks as sharp as the verbals, and live have been given a fully amplified workout with the help of her three touring bandmates. That it’s a Toronto debut adds to the occasion — anyone down with the likes of Courtney Barnett at her most droll (or thrift-shop fitness wear) may dig. (Dakota Tavern, 249 Ossington Ave., doors 8 p.m.) — Chris Young
SATURDAY
Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya
Watch this for: A meditation at the crossroads of music and history. At 83, Ibrahim is as much spiritual presence as virtuoso pianist and bandleader these days, but this night will be charged with more than just his usual holy communion. This tour with his Ekaya band celebrates and updates the music of the Jazz Epistles, the jazz outfit he started with trumpeter Hugh Masekela near-on 60 years ago in apartheid South Africa. It’s rich ground to revisit, a fusion of their homeland’s rhythmic traditions with American bebop and the untimely death of Masekela in January has added a poignant element to the tribute. (Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor St. W., 8 p.m.) — CY
SUNDAY
Westworld Watch this if: You’ve missed a prestige drama that doubles as a brain teaser. The series that saturated the internet with fan theories is back to use up more of our brain cells. Season 2 does — as creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy teased — begin with Bernard (Jeffrey Wright), who has lost his memory of the massacre that ended Season 1. The humans are determined to take the amusement park back from its robot “hosts” while trying to figure out what turned them into murderers. But the hosts have plans of their own, led by Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) and Maeve (Thandie Newton). And then there’s William, a.k.a. the Man in Black (Ed Harris), to contend with. (HBO at 9 p.m.) — DY