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The reimagining of Cirque du Soleil's ALEGRIA: IN A NEW LIGHT features all the spectacle and intrigue that the company is famous for, with a few updates that are sure to win over the hearts of even the most hardcore fans of its original staging.

The names Edith Piaf and Marlene Dietrich still hold weight decades after their glory days, and Mirvish's production of PIAF/DIETRICH (directed by Gordon Greenberg) makes it easy to understand why.

Fourteen years after its Toronto premiere, FACTORY is proud to present the triumphant return of TROUT STANLEY .

Karen Kain, Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada, and Barry Hughson, Executive Director, today announced that through CreativAction, the company will share resources to develop Canadian choreographic talent and support the dance community in Toronto.

The Canadian Opera Company and the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts are toasting to a new partnership with Perrier-Jouët, naming the historic and distinctive French brand as official champagne partner.

To kick off its new season, Théâtre français de Toronto (TfT) is offering Ionesco's seditious and absurd comedy, The Bald Soprano.

Edith Piaf and Marlene Dietrich were two of the greatest names in international show business during much of the 20th century.

Founded in 2012 (as Gay Play Day), the Toronto Queer Theatre Festival has been presenting plays by Toronto-based LGBTQ+ playwrights for the past seven years at the Alumnae Theatre and will present the eighth annual edition there once again from September 27 to September 28.

Playwrights Guild of Canada (PGC) announces the short lists for its 2019 Tom Hendry Awards.

Following its opening concerts of the season devoted to music by Romantic composers, Tafelmusik returns to its Baroque Roots, October 16 to 20 at Jeanne Lamon Hall, Trinity-St.

Karen Kain, Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada announced today that Principal Dancer Harrison James is the recipient of the 2019 Rolex Dancers First Award.

Toronto's only longform improv festival, Haroldfest, will celebrate their third anniversary with some of North America's top improvisers coming together in Toronto.

Rich or poor, the whole family will be hood-winked by Ross Petty Productions' original musical, LIL' RED ROBIN HOOD this holiday season.

Following last year's successful inaugural season, Aberrant Theatre's Ghost Light Anthology returns with a brand-new format for it's next chilling installment: The Ghost Light Anthology: Cataclysm.

After selling out 2 years in a row, Cardboard Sword Collective presents A Night At The Bronze: Once More With Feeling + Vampire Dance Party on Halloween night at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre.

MOonhORsE Dance Theatre presents Older & Reckless #42 in association with Harbourfront Centre November 15-16, 2019 featuring outstanding Indigenous artists including Barbara Kaneratonni Diabo, Christine Friday, JP Longboat, Lee Maracle and Byron Chief Moon and acclaimed Canadian choreographers Bill

Canadian Stage and Studio 180 Theatre are pleased to announce the cast for the Toronto premiere production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Sweat by Lynn Nottage.

To mark the 50th anniversary of the release of The Beatles' Abbey Road, the Art of Time Ensemble, under the artistic direction of founder Andrew Burashko, presents the entire album - re-imagined, re-invented and performed by top Canadian artists from the worlds of pop, classical, and jazz.

The 2019/20 Mirvish Theatre Season is one of the company's biggest, with 24 different shows in six downtown Toronto venues.

Six-time Canadian Comedy Award winner, Monkey Toast: The Improvised Talk Show is back! For our October show, host David Shore welcomes special guests, music journalist, Karen Bliss, and from The National Post & CBC's At Issue, Andrew Coyne! It all happens on Saturday, October 5th at The Social Cap

Bruce Dow won 2 Dora Mavor Moore Awards for his work at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre.

Bruce Dow won 2 Dora Mavor Moore Awards for his work at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre.

The premise is simple: it's the 90s and the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra is travelling from Egypt to Petah Tikva to perform in a concert.

A shopping mall is an ambitious setting for a play, and a Chinese mall perhaps even more so given the cultural significance they have for their communities.