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 Agony And Ecstasy Of Steve Jobs / Secret Location / 8:00pm/2:00pm / $20-$25
Well this is an interesting one. In 2010, Mike Daisey penned a play about Apple's controversial manufacturing industry in Asia. After it was uncovered that not all of the facts were true, the play's live run in Chicago was cancelled and the playwright was publicly shamed. In its Toronto incantation, David Ferry and Mitchell Cushman are delving head on into both the content of the play and the controversy surrounding the vilification of the playwright. The layered piece about art and journalism takes place on a walking tour of Toronto.

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.

Bring It On: The Musical / Ed Mirvish Theatre / 8:00pm/2:00pm / $25-$100+
Competitive cheerleaders across the land have been waiting for this one. Bring It On: The Musical opens in Toronto this week. Based on the 2000 film, which stars Kirsten Dunst and Eliza Dushku as young girls navigating the cutthroat bloodsport of competitive cheer, the stage version opened last year with music from Lin-Manuel Miranda and Tom Kitt, lyrics by Amanda Green, and a book by Jeff Whitty. The Ed Mirvish Theatre will be cheertastic for the next month with basket-tosses and pyramids. No plans yet on staged versions of the direct-to-video sequels: Bring It On Again , Bring It On: All or Nothing, Bring It On: In It to Win It, and Bring It On: Fight to the Finish.

It's often been claimed that achieving great comedy is far more difficult than striking the right balance of emotion in drama. There are just so many variables when it comes to tickling the funny bone. The strength of this claim can be seen in the latest production from Canadian Stage, Marivaux's The Game of Love and Chance directed by Matthew Jocelyn.

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.

You Can't Take It With You / Soulpepper - Young Centre / 7:30pm / $22-$68
Soulpepper offers up the classic comedy You Can't Take It With You from Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, now onstage at the Young Centre. When Alice Sycamore brings home her suitor and his conservative parents for dinner, the two families don't exactly hit it off. The strong cast includes Diego Matamoros, Nancy Palk, Eric Peterson, Brenda Robins, and Mike Ross.

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 Game of Love and Chance / Bluma Appel Theatre / 8:00pm/2:00pm / $20-$79
Rounding out the 2011-2012 season at Canadian Stage is the 18th-century classic The Game of Love and Chance from French master Marivaux. Artistic Director Matthew Jocelyn directs Trish Lindström and Harry Judge who play Silvia and Dorante, a couple who, unbeknownst to each other, masquarades as their servants to ensure the other is worthy of marriage before taking the plunge. It's an important play for the AD, after an underwhelming launch with Fernando Krapp Wrote Me This Letter last season.

Prisoner of Tehran is a powerful production that resonates with today's situation in Syria.

This play is the stage adaptation of Marina Nemat's international bestselling memoir. The story details her arrest in 1980, at the age of 16, for speaking out against Ayatollah Khomeini's regime. She was imprisoned and tortured in the infamous Evin prison. At the moment of her scheduled execution, her interrogator forces her into marriage — and she remains his prisoner outside of Evin.