Toronto 
Events Description
Sophie’s life goes from drab to colourful when she meets Maurice, her daughter’s artist neighbour, who wants to paint her.
Social Security focuses on trendy Manhattan art gallery owners Barbara and David Kahn, whose life is upended when her Mineola housewife sister Trudy deposits their eccentric mother Sophie on the couple’s doorstep while she and her husband Martin head to Buffalo to rescue their sexually precocious college student daughter from a menage a trois with two men. Barbara and David introduce Sophie to suave nonagenarian artist Maurice Koenig, who offers to paint her portrait and soon begins to brighten her life in ways she never expected in her twilight years.
After twenty-six previews, the Broadway production, directed by Mike Nichols, opened on April 17, 1986, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, where it ran for 388 performances. The cast included Marlo Thomas as Barbara, Ron Silver as David, Joanna Gleason as Trudy, Olympia Dukakis as Sophie, Stefan Schnabel as Maurice, and Kenneth Welsh as Martin.
“Just when you were beginning to think you were never going to laugh on Broadway again, along comes Social Security. . . The play is a hoot, and better yet, a sophisticated, civilized hoot.” ~ New York Post
by Andrew Bergman
Who is it for?
All ages
HOW MUCH
Tickets : $26.00 – $29.00
Regular: $29.00
Students/Under 30: $26.00
Seniors: $26.00 (Weds, Thurs, Sunday matinees)
Group of 10 or more: $26.00
How to get tickets?
Phone: 416-767-7702
Email: info@villageplayers.net
WHEN & WHERE
Date: Friday January 12, 2024 to Saturday February 3, 2024
Fri, Jan 12th, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Sat, Jan 13th, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Wed, Jan 17th, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Thu, Jan 18th, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Fri, Jan 19th, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Sat, Jan 20th, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Sun, Jan 21st, 2024 at 2:00 pm
Thu, Jan 25th, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Fri, Jan 26th, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Sat, Jan 27th, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Sun, Jan 28th, 2024 at 2:00 pm
Thu, Feb 1st, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Fri, Feb 2nd, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Sat, Feb 3rd, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Venue & Address
Village Playhouse, 2190E Bloor Street West, Toronto, M6S 1N3 (just east of Runnymede subway)
Wheelchair accessible
