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East End. Front Row. LEAD SEASON SPONSOR LEAD SEASON SPONSOR
Art that Nestled in the heart of Leslieville,
Streetcar Crowsnest is one of Toronto’s
Our 19/20 season will transform our
two theatres throughout the year,
Whether you’re joining us for a play,
concert, kids classes, or dinner at our
moves. hottest theatre venues and one of the
best night out experiences the city
immersing you in unforgettable
worlds that will move you, inspire
amazing on-site restaurant Gare de
l’Est, we want to share our corner of
has to offer. you, and spark debate. Shakespeare, the city with you. Our four and eight
musical theatre, pop, and urgently play Frequent Flyer passes are the best
We’re east-end proud, global in contemporary plays collide to make way to be a part of everything we’ve
outlook, and passionate about what this season unmissable. A night out at got on offer at Streetcar Crowsnest.
happens when we get together to Crow’s Theatre is an eclectic journey We hope you’ll consider taking flight
share stories with each other live for those hungry for culture that has a with us, and…
and in-person. beat and gets you talking.
Hope to see you in the theatre!
Chris Abraham & Sherrie Johnson
Artistic Director Executive Director
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Welcome to Streetcar Crowsnest. 4 | Season 2019-2020 Photo by Dahlia Katz. crowstheatre.com | 5
Oct 5 – Oct 6 –
Nov 3, 2019 Oct 27, 2019
SCOTIABANK GULOIEN OUTSIDE THE MARCH & CROW’S THEATRE
COMMUNITY THEATRE
STUDIO WRITTEN BY ANNIE BAKER
CROW’S THEATRE & ECLIPSE THEATRE COMPANY DIRECTED BY MITCHELL CUSHMAN
MUSIC, LYRICS & TEXT BY DAVE MALLOY Toronto Premiere
Canadian Premiere In this Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece by Annie Baker
DIRECTED BY MARIE FARSI
WITH BEAU DIXON, HAILEY GILLIS AND ANDREW PENNER (THE ALIENS, JOHN), three ushers navigate life making
$8.25/hour, as they attend to the last 35mm film projector
GHOST QUARTET is a haunted song cycle about love, in town. Hailed by The Guardian as “a love letter to the
death and whiskey. A camera breaks and four friends theatre”, THE FLICK is a hilarious and heart-rending cry
drink, in interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries: for authenticity in a fast-changing world. After Outside
a warped fairy tale about two sisters, a treehouse the March’s explosive, Dora Award-winning production
astronomer and a lazy evil bear; a retelling of Poe’s “The of JERUSALEM at Streetcar Crowsnest, Outside the
Fall of the House of Usher”; a purgatorial intermezzo about March and Crow’s Theatre join forces to transform the
Scheherazade; and a contemporary fable about a subway theatre and lobby into The Flick Cinema, for a must-see
murder. Murder ballads, doo-wop, jazz noise, and raucous immersive event.
campfire drinking songs collide in the Canadian premiere of
this surreal chamber musical from Dave Malloy, composer
of NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812. PULITZER
PRIZE
WINNER
DRAMA
“Like watching “One of the
a spectacular best plays
sunrise after a of the last
night of whiskey” 25 years”
TIME OUT NEW YORK NEW YORK TIMES
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Nov 26 –
Dec 8, 2019
CROW’S THEATRE PRESENTS STARS IN CONCERT
GULOIEN
THEATRE CREATED BY STARS, CHRIS ABRAHAM & ZACK RUSSELL
After 20 years and 8 albums, Canada’s most theatrical
World Premiere indie rock band meet their destiny and decide to make
a play together — well…not quite; part rock-doc, part
SLAIGHT FAMILY tragicomic fantasia, and all STARS concert, Montreal’s
CREATION RESIDENCY
beloved indie-rock band promises one of the strangest
concert experiences in the history of mankind. Careening
between tragedy and farce, illusion and reality, old tunes
and new ones, the band settles into Streetcar Crowsnest for
a limited engagement of the world premiere of their intimate
concert/theatre hybrid, TOGETHER.
“Beautiful, eloquent indie pop”
PITCHFORK
Nov 7 –
Nov 20, 2019 PLEIADES THEATRE IN ASSOCIATION WITH CROW’S THEATRE
WRITTEN BY STÉPHANE BRULOTTE
GULOIEN TRANSLATED BY JOHN VAN BUREK
THEATRE ADAPTED AND DIRECTED BY MAJDI BOU-MATAR
English-language
On Friday December 17, 2010, a fruit vendor named
Premiere Mohamed Bouazizi ignites a fire that will burn its
way across the Arab world. A fictional account
written by Stéphane Brulotte gives Karim, a forensic
pathologist, the task of performing an autopsy
on his body as protests erupt throughout Tunisia and
beyond. Charged with clearing the Tunisian government
of any blame in his death, the doctor must reconcile his
own safety, the future of his country, and the dignity of
a young man that sparked the Arab Spring.
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Jan 7 –
Jan 26, 2020
GULOIEN
THEATRE
GROUNDLING THEATRE & CROW’S THEATRE
WRITTEN BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
DIRECTED BY CHRIS ABRAHAM
FEATURING DION JOHNSTONE AND GRAHAM ABBEY
In the most powerful state on earth, a coalition of educated
elites, alarmed at their leader’s populist, authoritarian
reforms, conspire to bring him down. After his assassination,
a civil war erupts, as ghosts, revolutionaries, and politicians
contend with what they’ve done, and what’s to come.
A co-production from Groundling Theatre (THE WINTER’S
TALE, MEASURE FOR MEASURE, LEAR) and Crow’s Theatre “Devastatingly
following their celebrated partnership on TARTUFFE, good”
JULIUS CAESAR will bring the country’s most acclaimed NOW MAGAZINE
Shakespearean actors to Streetcar Crowsnest for the Feb 5 –
first time. Feb 23, 2020
“The best Shakespeare
I’ve seen in Toronto” GULOIEN
THEATRE
NATIONAL POST
REVIEW OF GROUNDLING THEATRE’S
THE WINTER’S TALE
CROW’S THEATRE PRESENTS THE SLOM COLLECTIVE AND
THE THEATRE CENTRE CO-PRODUCTION
WRITTEN BY HANNAH MOSCOVITCH WITH MAEV BEATY AND
ANN-MARIE KERR / CO-CREATED WITH MARINDA DE BEER
DIRECTED BY ANN-MARIE KERR / STARRING MAEV BEATY
DEVELOPED IN RESIDENCY AT THE THEATRE CENTRE
A playwright writes an exposé of modern motherhood: a
confessional piece about her own darkly funny and taboo-
breaking truths. One of her oldest friends, an actress, tells
this story, and through it, her own motherhood secrets
start to surface. These mothers are not the butts of jokes,
or the villains, or the perfect angels of the house. SECRET
LIFE OF A MOTHER reveals the raw, transcendent and
untold secrets of pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth,
and mothering. This is motherhood for the 21st century:
hallucinatory, gothic, and empowered.
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Mar 24 –
Apr 12, 2020
OBSIDIAN THEATRE’S DARKTOWN INITIATIVE
SCOTIABANK
COMMUNITY IN ASSOCIATION WITH CROW’S THEATRE
“Karen Hines’ STUDIO WRITTEN BY CHRISTINA ANDERSON
wild mind shines” DIRECTED BY JAY NORTHCOTT
THE HALF STEP
Klass, a homeless young Black man, sets up residence
in the courtyard of the housing project where 18-year-old
Ida Peters lives. After a fatal confrontation between a
local vendor and the police, Klass and Ida develop a
precarious bond, set against the backdrop of a restless
SLAIGHT FAMILY neighbourhood. Inspired by the Greek myth Leda and
CREATION RESIDENCY
the Swan, BLACKTOP SKY examines the intersection of
love, violence and community.
“BLACKTOP SKY serves as a mirror for
issues in our society...homelessness,
police violence, relationships and,
above all, empathy”
Mar 17 – SAN DIEGO VOICE AND VIEWPOINT
Apr 12, 2020
GULOIEN
THEATRE
Toronto Premiere
NIGHTWOOD THEATRE IN ASSOCIATION WITH CROW’S THEATRE
WRITTEN BY KAREN HINES
In the latest of Karen Hines’ darkly hilarious comedies, we
follow a tender-hearted young server on the most harrowing
shift of her life. In the extraordinarily modern bistro of an
all-women’s condo, our heroine contends with voracious
insurance adjustors, literary plagiarists, and indomitable
invertebrates. Table talk ranges from real estate to politics
to the existential transcendence of lambs — but it’s only
when the fuzzy ones start to speak that our hero really
starts to listen. Governor General nominated, powerhouse
playwright of THE POCHSY PLAYS and CRAWLSPACE,
Hines serves up a biting meditation on neo-liberalism,
consumption, precarity and hope.
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“When it comes
Apr 16 & 18, to outdoor
Shakespeare,
2020 the Ruffians are
hard to beat.”
THÉÂTRE FRANÇAIS DE TORONTO & CROW’S THEATRE NOW MAGAZINE
SCOTIABANK
COMMUNITY PRESENT A COLLECTIF ALPHA CHARLIE KILO PRODUCTION
STUDIO DIRECTED AND CREATED BY KRYSTEL DESCARY,
CLAUDIANE RUELLAND AND ALEXANDRINE WARREN BEST OF
2018
English-language NOMBRE is both an event and an experience. On arrival, TORONTO
Premiere STAR
Two performances only
audience members are given an envelope containing a series
of simple instructions. But they are quickly immersed in the
heart of a show of their own making. NOMBRE reminds
us of the exquisite singularity of human exchange
and the importance an ordinary encounter can have
in our lives. This production, performed alternately
in French and English, inaugurates a new partnership
with Théâtre français de Toronto and Streetcar Crowsnest.
Crow’s Theatre presents two English performances
of NOMBRE April 16 & 18.
Not included in the subscription season.
“A unique theatrical experience”
JOURNAL QUEBEC
Aug 14 –
Sep 2, 2019
SHAKESPEARE IN THE RUFF
WITHROW
PARK WITH THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF CROW’S THEATRE
WRITTEN BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE / DIRECTED BY SARAH KITZ
This summer, Shakespeare in the Ruff brings Shakespeare’s
most transformative play, THE WINTER’S TALE, to
Withrow Park. The play journeys from darkness to light,
exploring the power of forgiveness and coming-together.
Bring a picnic, meet a neighbour, and experience a
summer’s night beneath the stars. All tickets are
Pay-What-You-Can in the park, or reserve a seat in
advance at: www.shakespeareintheruff.com
Not included in the subscription season.
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“One of Toronto’s best
French restaurants”
TORONTO LIFE
Gare de l’Est
Come for dinner, drinks or coffee before the show.
Subscribers save 15%!
Fostering
Gare de l’Est is an authentic, modern French brasserie that celebrates the creativity &
Parisian dining experience. Voted the top restaurant for a pre-theatre dinner teamwork
in Toronto by BlogTO, we are located right next door to Crow’s Theatre. while making
Open 7 days a week for lunch, brunch, dinner, and full coffee service. friends.
To make reservations, visit gdlbrasserie.com
Crow’s Kids
Concerts, classes, camps,
storytelling & more!
Crow’s Kids programming begins in August with the return of our ever-popular
Summer Medley Camp: 6-9 year olds get to sample acting, improv, movement,
voice, stage combat, and creation in this super fun week-long camp.
Saturday classes return in October 2019 with offerings for kids ages 2-12:
Where’s the Beat? invites little Creative Drama Play returns with
ones and a caregiver to spend their classes for both 6-9 and 10-12 year
Saturday mornings with Sing Along olds to explore performance while
Tim Machin discovering music, igniting their imaginations and
rhythms and beats. building confidence.
Stay tuned for news on our Family Concerts and Storytelling events on
Sundays at 11am!
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Streetcar Crowsnest By Phone
345 Carlaw Avenue Call us at 647-341-7390 ext. 1010
Toronto, Ontario 12pm to 5pm, Monday to Friday.
In Person
At the north-east corner
In our lobby, two hours prior to
of Dundas and Carlaw
each performance.
Ticket & Theatre Policies
• Tickets for all performances can be purchased online at
crowstheatre.com, by telephone, or in person two hours preceding
each performance.
• Both The Guloien Theatre and the Scotiabank Community Studio are
seated by General Admission. A limited number of premium seats
can be reserved for most performances for an additional $10.
• All tickets purchased are subject to a Service Charge of $2.50 (plus HST).
Accessibility
Crow’s endeavors to provide access to theatre for everyone.
• Streetcar Crowsnest is a fully accessible venue for mobility devices.
To book wheelchair seating or a hearing assistance device, call or
email boxoffice@crowstheatre.com.
• Pay What You Can (PWYC) performances are available for
several productions; individual dates vary. Discounted Student,
Senior, Artsworker, and Under-30 tickets are available for many
performances. Find out more at crowstheatre.com.
• Group tickets are available to some performances with groups of
8 or more. Call the box office for bookings.
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20 | Season 2019-2020 crowstheatre.com | 21Season Calendar
Guloien Theatre
Productions
Scotiabank Community Studio
Productions
2020
MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN
FLICK THE FLICK GHOST GHOST QUARTET
6 JAN 7 8 9 10 11 12
JA N UA R Y
BESBOUSS BESBOUSS BLACKTOP BLACKTOP SKY CAESAR 2 CAESAR 2
STARS STARS: TOGETHER NOMBRE NOMBRE CAESAR 7:30 (P) CAESAR 7:30 (P) CAESAR 7:30 (P) CAESAR 7:30 (O) CAESAR 7:30
CAESAR JULIUS CAESAR 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
MOTHER SECRET LIFE OF A MOTHER CAESAR 2 CAESAR 2 CAESAR 2
CAESAR 7:30 CAESAR 7:30 CAESAR 7:30 CAESAR 7:30 CAESAR 7:30
ANIMALS ALL THE LITTLE ANIMALS I HAVE EATEN
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2019 (P) PREVIEW (O) OPENING CAESAR 7:30
CAESAR 2
CAESAR 7:30 CAESAR 7:30 CAESAR 7:30
CAESAR 2
CAESAR 7:30
CAESAR 2
MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN 27 28 29 30 31 1 FEB 2
F E B R UA R Y
1 OCT 2 3 4 5 6
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
OCTOBER
GHOST 8 (P)
MOTHER 2 MOTHER 2
GHOST 8 (P) FLICK 7:30 (P)
MOTHER 7:30 (P) MOTHER 7:30 (P) MOTHER 7:30 (O) MOTHER 7:30
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
FLICK 2 FLICK 2 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
GHOST 2:30 GHOST 2:30 MOTHER 2 MOTHER 2 MOTHER 2
FLICK 7:30 (P) FLICK 7:30 (P) FLICK 7:30 (O) FLICK 7:30 FLICK 7:30 MOTHER 7:30 MOTHER 7:30 MOTHER 7:30 MOTHER 7:30 MOTHER 7:30
GHOST 8 (P) GHOST 8 (P) GHOST 8 (P) GHOST 8 (O) GHOST 8
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 MOTHER 2 MOTHER 2 MOTHER 2
FLICK 2 FLICK 2 FLICK 2 MOTHER 7:30 MOTHER 7:30 MOTHER 7:30 MOTHER 7:30 MOTHER 7:30
GHOST 2:30 GHOST 2:30 GHOST 2:30
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MARCH
GHOST 8 GHOST 8 GHOST 8 GHOST 8 GHOST 8
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
FLICK 2 FLICK 2 FLICK 2
GHOST 2:30 GHOST 2:30 GHOST 2:30 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
FLICK 7:30 FLICK 7:30 FLICK 7:30 FLICK 7:30 FLICK 7:30
GHOST 8 GHOST 8 GHOST 8 GHOST 8 GHOST 8
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
28 29 30 31 1 NOV 2 3 ANIMALS 2 ANIMALS 2
N OV E M B E R
GHOST 2:30 GHOST 2:30 GHOST 2:30 ANIMALS 7:30 (P) ANIMALS 7:30 (P) ANIMALS 7:30 (O) ANIMALS 7:30 ANIMALS 7:30
GHOST 8 GHOST 8 GHOST 8 GHOST 8 GHOST 8
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ANIMALS 2 ANIMALS 2
BESBOUSS 2 BESBOUSS 2 ANIMALS 7:30 ANIMALS 7:30 ANIMALS 7:30 ANIMALS 7:30 ANIMALS 7:30 BLACKTOP 2:30
BESBOUSS 7:30 (P) BESBOUSS 7:30 (O) BESBOUSS 7:30 BLACKTOP 8 (P) BLACKTOP 8 (P) BLACKTOP 8 (P) BLACKTOP 8 (O) BLACKTOP 8
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 30 31 1 APR 2 3 4 5
APRIL
BESBOUSS 2 BESBOUSS 2 BESBOUSS 2 ANIMALS 2 ANIMALS 2
BESBOUSS 7:30 BESBOUSS 7:30 BESBOUSS 7:30 BESBOUSS 7:30 BESBOUSS 7:30 BLACKTOP 2:30 BLACKTOP 2:30
ANIMALS 7:30 ANIMALS 7:30 ANIMALS 7:30 ANIMALS 7:30 ANIMALS 7:30
18 19 20 21 22 23 24 BLACKTOP 8 BLACKTOP 8 BLACKTOP 8 BLACKTOP 8 BLACKTOP 8
BESBOUSS 2
BESBOUSS 7:30 BESBOUSS 7:30 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
ANIMALS 2 ANIMALS 2
25 26 27 28 29 30 1 DEC BLACKTOP 2:30 BLACKTOP 2:30
DECEMBER
STARS 2 STARS 2 ANIMALS 7:30 ANIMALS 7:30 ANIMALS 7:30 ANIMALS 7:30 ANIMALS 7:30
STARS 8 (P) STARS 8 (P) STARS 8 (P) STARS 8 (O) STARS 8 BLACKTOP 8 BLACKTOP 8 BLACKTOP 8 BLACKTOP 8 BLACKTOP 8
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
STARS 2 STARS 2 STARS 2
STARS 8 STARS 8 STARS 8 STARS 8 STARS 8 NOMBRE 8 NOMBRE 8
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