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Touchstone Theatre will open its 50th Anniversary season with Frances Končan’s Women of the Fur Trade, running September 24–October 4, 2025, at UBC’s Frederic Wood Theatre.

Today, Touchstone Theatre revealed its 2025/26 season –a dynamic slate of four works by Canadian/Turtle Island creators. Learn more here and see how to purchase tickets.

The Canadian premiere of the groundbreaking musical A Strange Loop and a bold new retelling of Mahabharata are the big winners in the 2025 Toronto Theatre Critics Awards (TTCA), each scooping up three prizes.

In Caleigh Crow’s THERE IS VIOLENCE AND THERE IS RIGHTEOUS VIOLENCE AND THERE IS DEATH OR, THE BORN-AGAIN CROW at Buddies in Bad Times, rage is the thing with feathers. The production, a collaboration between Buddies and Native Earth Performing Arts, celebrates the flame of righteous anger when powerful people suppress others, deferring to systems rather than offering even the slightest bit of relief or kindness that is in their power to give.

Museum of Toronto will present the exhibition, The 52: Stories of Women Who Transformed Toronto. The exhibit is organized into themes of science, arts and culture, politics, sports, and civic life. Learn more!

Capitol Theatre Port Hope has shared casting details for the four mainstage productions of the A Place to Call Home summer season, featuring Waitress and more.

The cast and creative team has been revealed for There is Violence and There is Righteous Violence and There is Death or, The Born-Again Crow, by Métis artist Caleigh Crow at Buddies in Bad Times. Learn more.

The Firehall Arts Centre will produce and present Women of the Fur Trade next month. Three very different women with a preference for 21st century slang find themselves stuck in a fort having tea and sharing their views on life, love, and Louis Riel.

The DTES Heart of the City Festival announced its lineup for 2024, featuring over 100 events including music, theatre, and visual arts, celebrating the cultural diversity and artistic talent of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

The Firehall Arts Centre will wrap its 2023-2024 season by welcoming back Cheri Maracle in Paddle Song. Running from Friday, May 24 to Sunday, June 2, this energetic and humorous one-woman musical reflects on the proud legacy of trailblazing Mohawk poet E. Pauline Johnson.

The world premiere of Father Tartuffe: An Indigenous Misadventure is playing at the Arts Club Theatre Company's Granville Island Stage! Learn more bout the show and see how to purchase tickets.

Native Earth Performing Arts has announced its 41st season with eight projects including an audio play, live theatre and dance, festivals and collaborations, and the second year of the Animikiig Creators Unit. 

The WeeFestival of Arts & Culture for Early Years, Toronto's only festival of its kind, will return with live, in-person performances in Toronto, the GTA & Ontario this May 31st to June 12th.

The Firehall Arts Centre presents Paddle Song from Tuesday, November 9 to Sunday, November 21, 2021. A recording of this production will be available for viewing online at a later date.

The Firehall Arts Centre has announced its 39th season, and Artistic Producer Donna Spencer has proudly programmed it as a Reunion Season. The Firehall’s 2021-22 Reunion Season opens with the world premiere of Raven Spirit Dance’s Chapter 21 from September 29 to October 3.

With the new Tom Patterson Theatre taking shape on the banks of the Avon River, the Stratford Festival is thrilled to announce key casting as it builds the acting company for its monumental 2020 season.

VIDEOCABARET presents the World Premiere of Cliff Cardinal's dark comedy, TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, at a brand new theatrical home in downtown Toronto. TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE will be presented at VIDEOCAB's new black box stage, 10 Busy Street, April 24 - May 19, 2019.

Why Not Theatre presents The RISER Project 2018, three world premieres and one workshop presentation of new Canadian work as part of a unique collaborative producing model for emerging and independent theatre artists, April 15 - May 12 at The Theatre Centre.

Young People's Theatre concludes its 2016/17 Season with the world premiere of Munschtime! featuring stories of the internationally renowned Canadian author Robert Munsch. The protagonists in all of Munsch's tales learn how their actions affect others, and about their own place in their communities.