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The Soulpepper Theatre Company, in Toronto, will make its American debut next summer with a festival of new plays and musicals Off Broadway at the Pershing Square Signature Center.
The festival will run from June 29 to July 29 and celebrate the theater’s 20th year and Canada’s sesquicentennial. Works will include “Kim’s Convenience,” a Korean-Canadian immigrant story by Ins Choi; an adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham’s “Of Human Bondage,” directed by Soulpepper’s artistic director, Albert Schultz; and “Re(birth): E. E. Cummings in Song,” a musical celebrating the American poet.
Mr. Schultz will also present his and Mike Ross’s musical adaptation of “Spoon River Anthology” by Edgar Lee Masters. (A morbid dramatic version of the work appeared at the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn in 2011.) Other events include concerts, workshops, and master classes; more information can be found at soulpepper.ca.
By Andrew R. Chow for www.nytimes.com.
Photo: Jean Yoon and Paul Sun-Hyung Lee in Kim’s Convenience. ©2012 Cylla von Tiedemann.
2016-07-31
Toronto: Soulpepper will make its American debut next summer