THEATRE NEWS:
Nightwood Theatre announces 2011-12 season
26 MAY/11

JOHN COULBOURN - QMI Agency

TORONTO - The sun will rise on a new season for Nightwood Theatre, according to artistic director Kelly Thornton, who announced the company’s 2011-12 season Thursday. In addition to annual features like November’s New Groundswell Festival and March’s Fem Cab, it is comprised of three full productions.

The first will be the previously announced production at Buddies in Bad Times, of Margaret Atwood’s PENELOPIAD, directed by Thornton and starring Megan Follows and a stellar cast “of the city’s hottest female actors,” according to the Nightwood media release.

Thornton will also be at the helm when Rose Cullis’ THE HAPPY WOMAN makes its world première on the stage of the Berkeley Street Theatre, starring Barbara Gordon.

The Nightwood season wraps up with the North American première of Bryony Lavery’s STOCKHOLM in the Tarragon Extra Space, a production of Seventh Stage Theatre Productions, directed by Kelly Straughan and featuring Melissa Jane Shaw and Ryan Hollyman.

Passes for the season, priced at $75 and $125, are currently on sale at 416-944-1740.