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Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses performs at the 2016 Coachella festival on April 16, 2016.Kevin Winter

Guns N' Roses

Which one is Guns? Which one is Roses? It's been a long time since the Sunset Strip wild ones rode the Night Train together, but here they come, more or less recognizable. Somewhat reunited in their late-'80s form, the volatile rockers will howl their metallic blues and riff their stadium-rock signatures, while those in the upper reaches of Rogers Centre will take it on faith that the jungle on stage is for real. July 16, 8:30 p.m. $49.50 to $450. 1 Blue Jays Way, 855-985-5000 or ticketmaster.ca

A Doll's House

Soulpepper's staging of Ibsen's breakthrough drama of 1879 is ambiguously modern, with Katherine Gauthier as Nora Helmer, a wife and mother whose dream life begins to dissolve. Secrets are here, deception is there, and the traditional roles of men and women in marriage are questioned. Something other than froth. Daniel Brooks directs. July 27 to Aug. 27 (previews begin July 18). $32 to $96. Young Centre, 50 Tank House Lane, 416-866-8666 or soulpepper.ca.

Beaches International Jazz Festival

The sprawling annual affair of jazz and other music takes over Woodbine Park for the first of two weekends, with headliners that include the R&B singer Ivana Santilli and the Colombian reggae eccentrics De Bruces A Mi (on Saturday) and the Mississippi soul-blues veteran Johnny Rawls (on Sunday). Later in the week (July 21 to 23), the popular and melodious crawl along Queen Street East makes party and noise. To July 24. Free. Woodbine Park, 1696 Queen St. E., beachesjazz.com.

A Celebration of Brian Bedford

"Out, out, brief candle." At Stratford this season, Shakespeare's thriller Macbeth is dedicated to the memory of Brian Bedford, the late British actor who was a drama-school classmate Peter O'Toole and Albert Finney, a shining star in the West End in the late 1950s and early 60s, a Tony winner on Broadway in 1971 and, for 29 seasons, an icon at Stratford, where he was anything but a poor player. On Sunday morning, an actor's life is marked. July 17, 10 a.m. Free. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen St., Stratford, Ont., 800-567-1600 or stratfordfestival.ca.

Open Roof Festival

The punniest New York tabloids exclaimed him as a "train in the neck," but the sympathetic documentary Off the Rails from Torontonian Adam Irving portrays Darius McCollum as a troubled, affable subway savant who has spent a good part of his life behind bars as a result of his compulsion to steal public buses and impersonate transit employees. The film happens as part of a popular al fresco series that pairs cinema with a prescreening concert, this week by the successful singer-songwriter Tomi Swick.

July 20, 8 p.m. $15. 99 Sudbury St., openrooffestival.com.

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