Today in Toronto: The Addams Family and Children’s Republic

The Addams Family What began as a satirical New Yorker cartoon in 1938 made it to Broadway last year, with mixed results. In the show, Gomez, Morticia and the rest of the macabre Addams clan must endure the humiliation of watching daughter Wednesday fall for the worst kind of bad boy—a nice, all-American one. Toronto hoofer Sergio Trujillo choreographs. Find out more »

Children’s Republic Local playwright Hannah Moscovitch keeps getting better and better (and busier and busier). On the heels of her SummerWorks smash Little One comes the wrenching real-life story of children’s advocate and doctor Janusz Korczak and the orphans he pledged to protect from the Nazis. Find out more »