Openings We're Tracking This Week, January 9-15

Choi

Atwood (photo: George Whiteside)

He's an alum of the company, but Ins Choi is coming in through the front door at Soulpepper, this week, as his play Kim's Convenience takes flight. It's the story of a family, a store and the world around them. A hit of the Toronto Fringe.

This is the third time, in the short life of the CharPo publications, that we have covered Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad. After a school production in Montreal directed by Andrew Cuk, and Vanessa Porteous's well-received reading in Calgary and Vancouver, comes Nightwood with the tale of a woman and her maids during considerably harsher times.

Ottawa Little Theatre is going to the well that is Neil Simon and pulling out a production of Lost in Yonkers. Simon, after decades of mockery at the slightness of his works, went into his own childhood for this one and - will wonders never cease! - won a Pulitzer!