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The Stratford Festival has released an all new trailer for its online platform, STRATFEST@HOME!

Long-time Blyth Festival supporter Cindy Fisher, along with a committee of local artists, has developed a special fundraiser to assist the Blyth Festival as it weathers the challenges that the Covid-19 pandemic has created.

The Stratford Festival is following up on the success of its recent Shakespeare Film Festival with a $10-a-month digital content subscription, Stratfest@Home, offering more Shakespeare and more films, along with new commissions, music, conversation, cooking and comedy.

Factory will present the world premiere of acts of faith, by multi-award winning Asian Canadian playwright David Yee, directed by Nina Lee Aquino, and starring Natasha Mumba.

As of October 28, the Shaw Festival's concert series will move indoors to the Jackie Maxwell Studio Theatre with a limit of 50 guests and safety protocols in place.

The Stratford Festival has released a new flashback video to its 2013 production of Tommy.

Opera Atelier has released a statement, announcing the postponement of Something Rich & Strange.

Barry Hughson, Executive Director, today announced that The National Ballet of Canada’s work in the community through the Share the Magic programme has been recognized with the 2019/20 Pat Arato Community Partner Award.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (MOCA) today announced that it has received the Museum's most significant show of private sector support to datea?'$5.

Young People's Theatre will premiere its brand new online Storytelling Series, spotlighting Indigenous and non-European oral storytelling traditions.

The Shaw Festival plans to return to the stage in May with a reduced 2021 season.

Royal Conservatory Orchestra; award-winning experimental Kronos Quartet with Inuit throat singing sensation Tanya Tagaq; and the Royal Conservatory's very own ARC Ensemble (Artists of The Royal Conservatory) round out the classical music offerings during The Resounding Concert online event on Octobe

Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre will present an online and in person one-man production of A Christmas Carol.

Are you a budding playwright from the Simcoe County region? As part of the City of Barriea??s Culture Days festivities, Theatre by the Bay is launching a new 24 hour playwriting contest!

The Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto (IIC) presents Care, a conversation exploring the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered our world, on Wednesday, October 14 at 12:30 PM.

Angelwalk Theatre will bring some musical theatre fun to the fall lineup with its brand-new online series Backstage Tea, airing every Tuesday at 5:30 pm (EST) starting October 20th and available until 11:59 pm (EST) the following Monday.

The National Ballet of Canada is preparing for its first live performance since March!

This year the BroadwayWorld Toronto Awards are back bigger than ever, celebrating the best in local theatre of the past decade! Eligibility is for productions which opened between 2011 and September 30th, 2020.

Young People's Theatre today announced the fall line-up for its 2020.

David Mirvish will present the international premiere of the Donmar Warehouse production of BLINDNESS, a socially distanced sound installation.

Given ongoing uncertainty around large-scale and indoor gatherings due to COVID-19, the Canadian Opera Company will be cancelling the rest of its originally planned 2020/2021 season programming.

Sweet Dreams is a comedic, modern day adaptation of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream set to the timeless music of AIR SUPPLY.

Sudbury Symphony Orchestra will present SSO String Quartet at the Indie.

Spontaneous Theatre (the group who brought Romeo & Juliet, Sidewalk Scenes, and Instant Theatre to Stratford this summer) creates an original, live, interactive murder mystery to keep you intrigued through the Fall Season.

Choreographer and performer of Métis heritage, Jera Wolfe creates Soul, his first work for The National Ballet of Canada which makes its world premiere virtually in November as part of the Spotlight Series.