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The Dream in High Park Returns This July with Qasim Khan as HAMLET


by Stephi Wild - June 07, 2024

This annual event returns this July with a new production of one of Shakespeare’s definitive tragedies, HAMLET, on stage under the stars from July 21st to September 1st....

Review: Mason and Sears Shine as ROMEO AND JULIET at the Stratford Festival


by Lauren Gienow - June 02, 2024

The final performance of Opening Week of the Stratford Festival’s 72nd Season is one familiar to all audiences. ROMEO AND JULIET opened at the Festival Theatre last night and provided a strong conclusion to a very successful opening week. Director Sam White – who directed last season’s excellent WED...

Review: The Stratford Festival's LA CAGE AUX FOLLES Heralds the Arrival of Pride Month


by Lauren Gienow - June 01, 2024

What a fitting choice to have the Stratford Festival production of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES be the one to herald the arrival of Pride Month! Last night, the Thom Allison - Directed production brought heart, humour, and pride to the Avon Theatre stage. ...

Review: Sara Topham Delivers a Masterful Performance as HEDDA GABLER at the Stratford Festival


by Lauren Gienow - May 31, 2024

The emotions evoked by this play are complex ones. HEDDA GABLER is raw and disturbing and funny and devastating. It is the story of a complicated woman trapped in a world that does not suit her. It explores the psyche of Hedda in a way that leads to more questions than answers. This piece will likel...

Review: The Stratford Festival's CYMBELINE Offers Fantasy and Excitement


by Lauren Gienow - May 30, 2024

An exciting production of William Shakespeare’s CYMBELINE opened last night at the Tom Patterson Theatre. This rarely played Tragicomedy Romance offers an intriguing and fantastical story and Director Esther Jun and company take full advantage of all the twists, turns and laughs within the text....

Review: The Stratford Festival's SOMETHING ROTTEN Has Something for Everyone


by Lauren Gienow - May 29, 2024

When it was announced last fall that the Stratford Festival would be mounting a production of SOMETHING ROTTEN with Director/Choreographer Donna Feore at the helm, it immediately made perfect sense. A show set in Elizabethan times that sends up Shakespeare and Musicals alike, with the Bard himself a...

Pride Takes The Spotlight At The Stratford Festival


by A.A. Cristi - May 28, 2024

The Stratford Festival celebrates Pride with a series of events and performances highlighting LGBTQ+ stories and artists....

SIZWE BANZI IS DEAD & More Nominated for 44th Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards


by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 28, 2024

The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts revealed the 228 nominations for the 44th Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards. See the full list! ...

Review: The Stratford Festival's TWELFTH NIGHT Boasts a Multitude of Fantastic Performances


by Lauren Gienow - May 28, 2024

The Stratford Festival’s 72nd season opened last night with a delightful production of William Shakespeare’s TWELFTH NIGHT. Last performed on the Festival Theatre stage in 2017, it was high time that this comedy of mistaken identity, foolish pranks, and the pursuit of love be brought back for Stratf...

Soulpepper Theatre to Present A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE This Summer


by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 23, 2024

Soulpepper Theatre brings Tennessee Williams' classic A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE to the stage this summer. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets....

Past Shows


It’s 1821 in New York, and two productions of Shakespeare’s Richard III are vying for audiences. One is presented by the African Company of New ...

Finally There’s Sun
9/9 - 9/26/2021

R + J
8/12 - 9/26/2021

Serving Elizabeth
8/28 - 9/26/2021

Serving Elizabeth
8/24 - 9/26/2021

Freedom
8/19 - 9/5/2021

I Am William
8/4 - 9/5/2021

Play On!
7/29 - 8/15/2021


A hilarious story of a theater group trying desperately to put on a play in spite of maddening interference from a haughty author who keeps ...

The Rez Sisters
7/13 - 8/15/2021

You Can’t Stop the Beat
7/15 - 7/31/2021

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
6/22 - 7/25/2021


Balanchine’s timeless choreography brings to life Shakespeare’s magical and humorous story of a fairy kingdom and the humans that enter into it. This tale features ...

Why We Tell the Story
6/24 - 7/11/2021


The Taming of the Shrew, directed in 1988 by Richard Monette and featuring Colm Feore as Petruchio and Goldie Semple as Katherina....

Othello
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Othello, directed in 2019 by Nigel Shawn Williams and featuring Michael Blake in the title role, with Laura Condlln as Emilia, Amelia Sargisson as Desdemona, ...


The Merry Wives of Windsor, directed in 2019 by Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino and featuring Sophia Walker and Brigit Wilson as the merry wives and ...


Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, directed by Richard Monette in 1992 and featuring Antoni Cimolino and Megan Follows....


George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, directed by Des McAnuff in 2008 and featuring Christopher Plummer and Nikki M. James....


Shakespeare's The Tempest, directed by Des McAnuff in 2010 and featuring Christopher Plummer, James Blendick, Bruce Dow, Peter Hutt, Dion Johnstone, Trish Lindström, Gareth Potter, ...


The Early Modern Cooking Show U.S. Thanksgiving Binge, with host Qasim Khan....


Timothy Findley's Elizabeth Rex, directed by Martha Henry in 2000 and featuring Diane D'Aquila, Brent Carver and Peter Hutt. Beginning Thursday, OCTOBER 22, watch parties ...

Wolf Hall
7/27 - 11/15/2020


Hilary Mantel, adapted for the stage by Mike Poulton Stratford Festival...


Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, directed in 1994 by Diana Leblanc and featuring Martha Henry, William Hutt, Peter Donaldson, Tom McCamus and Martha ...


Beginning Thursday, OCTOBER 22, watch parties are back on, with a variety of entertainment. They begin at 6:30 p.m. ET with great preshow content. The ...


"We had so much fun in the spring and summer gathering for our YouTube watch parties - with actors and stage managers mingling in the ...

Three Tall Women
6/1 - 10/18/2020


Edward Albee Stratford Festival...

The Crucible
7/22 - 11/17/2019


Arthur Miller Stratford Festival...

Billy Elliot
4/16 - 11/3/2019


BROADWAY’S “BEST MUSICAL OF THE DECADE” -Time Magazine BILLY ELLIOT THE MUSICAL is a joyous celebration of one young boy's journey to make his dreams ...

The Neverending Story
5/16 - 11/3/2019


The famous story of a boy who becomes caught up in a mysterious book -- only to discover that the story it tells may be ...

Little Shop of Horrors
4/29 - 11/2/2019


A down-and out skid row floral assistant becomes an overnight sensation when he discovers an exotic plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood. Soon ...

Othello
5/3 - 10/27/2019

Private Lives
4/24 - 10/26/2019


Revived in 2002 by the Royal National Theatre in a production that sparkled on Broadway, Private Lives is one of the most sophisticated, entertaining plays ...

The Merry Wives of Windsor
5/11 - 10/26/2019

The Front Page
7/30 - 10/25/2019


In this landmark comedy set inside the crowded pressroom at Chicago’s Criminal Courts Building during the 1920s, a group of reporters cover a controversial execution ...

Birds of a Kind
7/30 - 10/13/2019

Mother's Daughter
5/18 - 10/13/2019

Henry VIII
5/7 - 10/12/2019


Henry VIII by Shakespeare is a play based on realistic events; it follows King Henry VIII's divorce from Queen Katherine and his subsequent marriage to ...

Nathan the Wise
5/25 - 10/11/2019

The Sound of Music
5/5 - 11/8/2015


The Sound of Music, a beloved musical brimming with romance and resilience, was crafted by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. These ...

Carousel
5/5 - 10/23/2015


Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesus Christ Superstar
11/18 - 1/1/2012


It seems especially fitting that the first rock opera, created as a concept album at the end of the turbulent '60s, should have at its ...

Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesus Christ Superstar
5/2 - 11/6/2011


It seems especially fitting that the first rock opera, created as a concept album at the end of the turbulent '60s, should have at its ...

Videos


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Wychwood Theatre (5/4 - 6/23) Tracker
PHOTOS VIDEOS
Broadway Blockbusters with Ramin Karimloo & Mikaela Bennett in Toronto Broadway Blockbusters with Ramin Karimloo & Mikaela Bennett
Toronto Symphony Orchestra (6/25 - 6/26) Tracker
SPIN - in concert in Toronto SPIN - in concert
Guild Festival Theatre (7/6 - 7/6)
Moulin Rouge! in Toronto Moulin Rouge!
Ed Mirvish Theatre (11/26 - 1/12)
Harbourfront Centre Celebrates 50 Years of Arts, Culture and Unity with an Exciting Summer Lineup of Anniversary Events and Long Weekend Festivals in Toronto Harbourfront Centre Celebrates 50 Years of Arts, Culture and Unity with an Exciting Summer Lineup of Anniversary Events and Long Weekend Festivals
Harbourfront Centre (6/1 - 8/28)
Sam Sferrazza's Work-in-Progress & Johnnie McNamara Walker's The Heterosexuals in Toronto Sam Sferrazza's Work-in-Progress & Johnnie McNamara Walker's The Heterosexuals
Factory Theatre (6/16 - 6/16)
Twinkle Twinkle in Toronto Twinkle Twinkle
Wychwood Theatre (6/29 - 7/21)
Stranger Sings the musical parody in Toronto Stranger Sings the musical parody
Regent Theatre (7/18 - 7/28)
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical in Toronto Tina: The Tina Turner Musical
Ed Mirvish Theatre (6/18 - 7/28)
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