Kim’s Convenience revolves around a Korean-Canadian family running a convenience store in Moss Park, Toronto. Together, the members deal with numerous personal and professional challenges, leading to ...
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As you walk into the theater at a new production of the play “Kim’s Convenience,” the hallway briefly becomes a Toronto sidewalk, with crates and trash strewn about, the sign for the shop glowing in ...
3 ICYMI: Meet the Next On Stage: Season 6 Finalists 4 Photos: WONDER Celebrates Opening Night at the A.R.T. In the play Kim’s Convenience, as well as the television show, Mr. Kim works hard to support ...
Kim's Convenience, penned by Ins Choi, explores the life of Mr. Kim, a Korean immigrant running a convenience store in Toronto. As development encroaches on his business, he faces a choice between ...
Ins Choi immigrated to Canada from Korea as a one-year-old. What his toddler’s brain took in first was the scent of his uncle’s shop. “My first memory of Canada was the smell of a convenience store,” ...
Just as wines have years of exceptional harvest, theater can also produce a bounty of smash hits within a single calendar rotation. For Canada, that year was 2010, when two of the country’s biggest ...
For fans of the TV sitcom “Kim’s Convenience,” the play delivers a sense of deja vu — it’s laugh-out-loud funny, brimming with witty banter and sharp humor. This play, which inspired the Netflix ...
The hilarious and heart-warming award-winning comedy-drama about a family-run Korean store that inspired the Netflix hit, is a feel-good ode to generations of immigrants who have made Canada the ...
At just 83 minutes long, Kim’s Convenience may be short, and set entirely in a small corner store, but it embraces the big stuff: family, regret, forgiveness, the need for belonging. Ultimately, it ...
It’s impossible to consider “Kim’s Convenience,” the rib-tickling, heart-stirring comic drama now playing at ACT’s Toni Rembe Theater, without noting its kinship to television sitcoms. That would be ...
(L-R) Sethe Nguyen, Kory Laquess Pullam and Johnny Barton in Kim's Convenience at Main Street Theater. Credit: Photo by Ricornel Productions As an actor, Johnny Barton has a long history of appearing ...