High Life
Four morphine-addicted criminals try to rob a bank, and it all goes wrong. Why hasn’t Quentin Tarantino made this into a movie yet?
Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill Street, 416-866-8666. Feb. 21 – March 28.
Beckett: Feck it!
Shorter plays by acclaimed Irish playwright Samuel Beckett are juxtaposed with Irish contemporary classical music. Basically, it’s a night of Irish madness, and you can rest assured you aren’t going crazy: that’s just Beckett.
Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley Street, 416-368-3110. Feb. 17 – 25.
The Big Smoke
Amy Nostbakken’s original and award-winning one-woman show is inspired by the lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, so you know what that means: a talented female artist battles with depression, and may or may not, eventually, put her head inside an oven.
Factory Theatre, Studio Theatre, 125 Bathurst Street, 416-504-9971. Feb. 22 – March 4.
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
In what is considered one of the greatest American plays ever written, a dysfunctional family’s future hangs in the balance over the course of one fateful day, helped fueled by — what else? — drugs and alcohol. (It seems Soulpepper’s got a taste for the darkness recently, no?)
Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill Street, 416-866-8666. Feb. 23 – March 28.
Back to the Future: The Improv Show
If you’re a fan of Doctor Who, Marty McFly and Quantum Leap, chances are you’ll love this time travel-themed improv show featuring Ken Hall, Sean Tabares, Isaac Kesler and Janet Davidson. Kudos to anyone who pulls off a killer Stephen Hawking impression.
The Black Swan Tavern, 154 Danforth Avenue, 416-903-5388. February 22 @ 8pm.