Kick off Pride month with Buddies project
Also catch the continuation of a beloved play or go on a first date to remember
The Youth/Elders Project Watch this if: You want a show that’s intersectional and intergenerational.
Kick off Pride month with decades of queer knowledge, experience and stories. North America’s largest LGBTQ theatre company, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, in partnership with the 519 and the Senior Pride Network, presents the Youth/Elders Project, which paired emerging queer artists with older generations who fought for the rights that their younger colleagues now enjoy. The result of a year of discussions and workshops will be performed for five nights only to kick off Buddies’s Pride festivities.
Wednesday to June 4, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander St. AStreetcar Named Desire Watch this if: You need to know the rest of Blanche’s story.
It’s the 70th anniversary of Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Streetcar Named Desire, which leaves its heroine Blanche Dubois in a shattered mental state on her way to a mental institution.
John Neumeier’s ballet based on the play, which debuted in 1983, picks up from that point and continues Blanche’s deteriorating mental state, and her eventual reunion with her sister Stella, brother-in-law Stanley and former paramour Mitch.
The ballet mixes memories with reality, for a more abstract, melancholy retelling of a beloved story.
Saturday to June 10, Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts
Blind Date
Watch this if: You need a boost in your love life.
It’s the improvised rom-com that will never tire. Rebecca Northan’s clown Mimi is now a prolific firstdater, since the show she created Blind Date has been remounted several times in Toronto, and even sparked a same-sex spinoff at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre last year.
Now Northan is back to bring one lucky audience member along on a first date to remember, as Mimi guides them through a lineup of hiccups and hijinks in love.
Tuesday to June 25, Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman Ave.