Robert Kuang

Photo Courtesy of Kelsey Savage & John Woods, Real Talk On paper, Alison Klein is a serious academic with a master’s in interdisciplinary studies focused on adult education and disability. Meet her at one of the Real Talk’s free public events (affectionately known as “pizza parties”), and she’ll be the first to greet you as a peer facilitator and make a joke—sometimes with anatomically correct models at the ready. “I go, ‘Look, a present’, and then just walk away,” says Klein with a smile.

ON THE SURFACE, THE three central characters of Anosh Irani’s Behind the Moon share much in common. They are immigrants who came to Toronto in search of opportunity, they are Muslim, and each, in his own way, is deeply devoted to family.

COMING RIGHT OFF an extended production of Kim’s Convenience with Toronto’s Soulpepper Theatre, Canadian writer and actor Ins Choi is gearing up for a new show featuring songs and stories as the son of a head pastor.