This week in theatre rounds up the most noteworthy live theatre playing right now in Toronto. It includes just-opened shows as well as productions that are about to close.

The Script Tease Project / Theatre Passe Muraille / Various Times / $15-20
The National Theatre of the World continues to offer exciting and unique collaborations. Following the success of their inaugural Script Tease Project in 2011, the group is back with a staggering lineup of Canadian playwrights: Maja Ardal, Ins Choi, Sky Gilbert, Michael Healey, Karen Hines, Lee MacDougall, John Murrell, Adam Pettle, Anusree Roy, and Scott Thompson. Each evening, a playwright pens a "tease" of a new play (two pages) and seals them in an envelope. The improvisers will open one envelope, read the two pages, and improvise the rest of the show. High stakes, to say the least.

As much as David Storey's Home is about the pace of the dialogue and the pauses in between, what you'll inevitably remember is the way the seemingly unimportant setting comes sharply into view.

This week in Theatre rounds up the most noteworthy live theatre playing right now in Toronto. It includes just-opened shows as well as productions that are about to close.

This week in theatre rounds up the most noteworthy live theatre playing right now in Toronto. It includes just-opened shows as well as productions that are about to close.

Dance Marathon / World Stage - Enwave Theatre / 7:00pm / $35
An immersive and participatory theatre piece, bluemouth inc.'s Dance Marathon has been touring the globe seeking to connect audience members with movement, text, music, and video. Inspired by dance contests in the 1920s and 1930s, the show invites audience members to join in on the dance floor, learn a few new steps, and embrace those two left feet. If dancing isn't your thing, not to fear. Joining the dance isn't obligatory.

The belief that love makes us perform crazy and self-destructive acts in pursuit of the desires of the heart has been the inspiration for a seemingly endlessness amount of stage fare. Included in that group is Rajiv Joseph's Gruesome Playground Injuries, now onstage at the Theatre Centre.

There's no need to pussyfoot around it. The practice of translating popular film to stage musicals has become so rampant, not to mention poorly done, that you've already chalked up Bring It On: The Musical as another in a long line of bad productions out to steal your money. Well in some respects, you'd be right — the plot is predictable, the ultra-skinny cheerleaders are peppy, and the music not all that memorable. But it's not as bad as you might think.