Magnetic North Festival tip sheet: Oh What a Beautiful Morning! and more

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      Amid the shows, workshops, and talks that the newly revived Magnetic North Festival is bringing to town from this Saturday to next Sunday (June 1 to 9), here’s a sampling of more events worth checking out.

       

      Oh What a Beautiful Morning!

      May 29 to June 9 at the Russian Hall

      Think waving cornfields, not big show tunes, as Fight With a Stick Productions deconstructs the iconic 1955 movie musical Oklahoma!, complete with projected film imagery, live action, and even a sing-along.

       

      Undivided Colours

      June 6 and 7 at the Scotiabank Dance Centre

      In the Off Mag North series, Vancouver-based Filipino-Canadian dance innovator Alvin Erasga Tolentino joins a topnotch culturally diverse group of Ontario artists—William Lau, Hari Krishnan, and Peter Chin—to put their own spins on styles from bharata natyam to Peking opera.

       

      Inheritance: A pick-the-path experience

      June 7 at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

      Alley Theatre lets the audience vote to decide the fates of an urban couple and a land inheritance in this early reading of the work in progress.

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