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Harbourfront Centre’s World Stage presents Young Jean Lee’s The Shipment, May 9-12.

Hailed by The New York Times as “a rising star” and by Time Out New York as “one of the best experimental playwrights in America,” Young Jean Lee is one of the most celebrated young playwrights working in the U.S. today. In their citation from the 2010 American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Awards, the Academy members wrote: “Young Jean Lee’s plays are fierce, challenging, brazenly theatrical, and then transcendentally lyrical… In seven years, as author and director, she has created a theater like none other, and with it, a fresh dramatic language for the multicultural American stage.”
 
Cahoots’ friends and patrons are receiving a 20% discount on tickets to this show! Just use the promo code “Cahoots” when ordering your tickets.

There will be a talkback with members of the cast after the performance on May 10, hosted by David Yee, artistic director of fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Theatre.

For more info and to book tickets click HERE

“Regent Park is an area in transition, largely populated by new immigrants and Aboriginal Peoples. Created in 2003, Regent Park Film Festival (RPFF) is Toronto’s ONLY free-of-charge community film festival dedicated to showcasing local and international independent works relevant to residents of the largest and oldest public housing in Canada. The films we present reflect key themes such as, immigration, inner city issues, cultural identity and multicultural relationships. RPFF’s principle activity is to organize an annual festival along with year-round school and community screenings, panel discussions, performances and professional training at no cost. The festival aims to reach isolated communities throughout Regent Park and beyond and provide a forum for them to engage in critical dialogue on social issues and to enjoy films from all over the world.” (source: www.regentparkfilmfestival.com)

10 Questions for Richard Fung, Program Director at the Regent Park Film Festival:

What do you love about the Regent Park Film Festival?
What I love about the Regent Park Film Festival is that it’s a film festival that brings the community together and showcases local, national, and international works all together. No matter what, you are always welcome and its all FREE!

What do you do as Program Director?
As Program Director I oversee all programming for the festival which includes but is not limited to, the films being selected, the theme associated with this year’s festival, and the workshops being run.

In three words, describe the environment at RPFF.
Community, Home, Excitement

What do you like most about working at RPFF?
What I like most about working for the festival is that I am able to give back to the community that I grew up in with the thing I am most passionate about… Film!

What is the range of submissions you receive for the festival?
Typical we received about 200-300 submissions a year. They range from Documentary, Comedy, Drama, to experimental, BUT we except all types of genres in our submissions.

What sorts of programming do you host for the rest of the year?
We hold workshops for the youth of the community during the year, and we also hold community screenings in the neighbourhood. The locations may vary at least until we move into our new office at the Regent Park Arts and Cultural Centre where we will have our own screening room.

Where does RPFF currently present screenings?
RPFF community screenings are held typically in partnership with other community groups. We will bring in any necessary equipment and have a screening in their space. We are very grateful for our partners.

How do you think the move to RPACC will affect programming at RPFF?
The move to RPACC will greatly affect the programming as we will be able to have more screenings with our new screening room. Our office will be in the heart of Regent Park and it will be easy for our community members to come out and watch a film.

What are you looking forward to most about the move to RPACC?
The number one thing we are looking forward to about the move to RPACC is number one, being back in the community. Number two, having our own dedicated space for all festival activities and operations. With the move back into the community we are now better equipped to reach the community with our programming.

And, most importantly, how are you at removing paper jams?
Terrible. My hands get all inky.

Festival Details:

Everyone is invited to participate in FREE viewings, debates and panel discussions!

Interested in making a film? Regent Park residents can create new works through their FREE professional training workshops! Your film could even be presented in their Community Stories event, and you could engage with guest filmmakers from all over the world.

To submit your film to the Regent Park Film Festival check out this link: http://regentparkfilmfestival.com/submissions.html

It’s FREE to submit, and the deadline is May 4th.

Factory Theatre presents

MY GRANNY THE GOLDFISH
by Anosh Irani

Granny travels from Bombay to visit her beloved grandson Nico who is in hospital in Vancouver.  Her “cure alls” are attitudes, platitudes and a full flask of whiskey.  Despite Nico’s neurotic and hysterical protests, Granny helps him truly heal – ultimately proving that laughter is the best medicine.

March 17 – April 15, 2012
Factory Theatre, Mainspace
125 Bathurst Street

For more information or to book tickets, contact 416.504.9971 or online at www.factorytheatre.ca.

Candles are for Burning in association with Buddies in Bad Times Theatre presents

BLISS
By Olivier Choinère

Céline Dion speaks through an Oracle to a group of cashiers at a Wal-Mart. She takes us on a journey from her triumphant farewell concert to the bedroom of her number one fan, who has spent most of her life chained to the bed by her family. Our insatiable appetite for celebrity is the topic of this darkly surrealistic play by Québécois dramatist Olivier Choinière. Buddies is thrilled to present the professional English Canadian premiere of this internationally acclaimed play, in a translation by Caryl Churchill.

March 27 – April 8, 2012
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, The Chamber
12 Alexander Street

For more information or to book tickets, contact 416-975-8555 or online at www.buddiesinbadtimestheatre.com.

Angelwalk Theatre presents

I LOVE YOU BECAUSE
Music By Joshua Salzman
Book and Lyrics By Ryan Cunningham

A modern twist on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, this hilarious new musical will have you smiling in your seat.  Set in New York City, a young, uptight greeting card writer’s life is changed when he meets a flighty photographer.  Along with their eccentric friends and siblings, they learn to love each other not in spite of their faults, but because of them.

March 28 – April 15, 2012
Toronto Centre for the Arts, Studio Theatre
5040 Yonge Street

For more information or to book tickets, contact 416-872-1111 or online at www.angelwalk.ca.

Young People’s Theatre presents

JACK AND THE GIANT BEANSTALK
by Linda A. Carson

This new spin on the much-loved story finds Jack, a farmer’s son, surrounded by land that just won’t grow anything. “The dirt’s dead” says his father, who sells off everything they own, little by little, to buy food so they can eat. When Jack finally has to sell his toys for food, he trades them instead for magic beans, which takes him on an amazing journey of excitement and peril. Jack climbs the giant stalk from which the magic beans grow and reaches a green and fertile land in the sky. There, Jack discovers the source of the trouble with his farmland and learns how to make it fertile again.

April 2 – 21, 2012
Young People’s Theatre, Mainspace
165 Front Street East

For more information or to book tickets, contact 416.862.2222 or online at youngpeoplestheatre.ca.

Studio 180 in association with Canadian Stage presents

CLAYBOURNE PARK
by Bruce Norris

In this hilariously unsettling comedy – inspired by Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun – a battle over race and real estate rages across two generations in a suburban Chicago neighbourhood. With a modern twist on issues of race, class, property ownership and community,Clybourne Park offers a satirical look at demographics, history, home and heart.

April 2 – 28, 2012
Berkeley Street Theatre
26 Berkeley Street

For more information or to book tickets, contact 416-368-3110 or online at www.studio180theatre.com.

Cabaret Company presents

DANCING QUEEN
by Sky Gilbert

A beautiful young man moves to the big city. There, he falls in love with an older man, while at the same time another man falls in love with him. Dancing Queen plays on gay culture’s fear of aging to ask scandalous questions about sex, love and monogamy. Buddies founding Artistic Director, Sky Gilbert, collaborates with notorious performance artist Keith Cole to tell the story of an inter-generational love triangle through dance and theatre.

April 18 – 29, 2012
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, The Chamber
12 Alexander Street

For more information or to book tickets, contact 416-975-8555 or online at www.buddiesinbadtimestheatre.com.