Today in Toronto: The Happy Woman and The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs

The Happy Woman Nightwood Theatre takes a hard look at what lies beneath happiness with the world premiere of Rose Cullis’s new play. Sixty-something widow Margaret is perfectly content: she has a gorgeous daughter and a son with a new wife and a baby on the way. Now if only everyone could keep the crazy at bay and stop delving into the past. Kelly Thornton directs. Find out more »

The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs The newly married Grace has been given one simple—and simply impossible—directive by her husband: do as you wish, but never, ever enter the small room at the top of the stairs. The niggling question of what’s beyond the locked door proves irresistible in playwright Carole Fréchette’s riff on the Bluebeard story. Weyni Mengesha directs. Find out more »