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Due to unprecedented demand for tickets, David Mirvish the Royal Shakespeare Company and The Dodgers have announced that the Canadian premiere production of MATILDA THE MUSICAL is once again forcing them to extend its run, this time through January 8th, 2017.

Starvox Entertainment presents the Canadian Tour of London's West End hit POTTED POTTER: The Unauthorized Harry Experience - A Parody by Dan and Jeff.

imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival has announced that Cree actor, musician and activist Tom Jackson will receive the 2016 August Schellenberg Award of Excellence.

DanceWorks, Toronto's longest running contemporary dance series, proudly kicks off the first show of its 39th Season with the return of Vancouver's Wen Wei Dance.

On September 23, 2016 a diverse lineup of artists join celebrated Man Booker Prize-winning author Ian McEwan when he brings his new novel Nutshell to life at Harbourfront Centre Theatre.

Evolution Dance Theatre (EDT) presents the world premiere of Follow Your Heart, a universal love story and multi-disciplinary spectacle featuring over 45 performers on stage.

 Canadian Stage launches its 16.

Brave New World features a dynamite ensemble, including many actors who have been with the show since its first workshop back in 2014.

After years spent under copyright, Aldous Huxley's enduring classic Brave New World will come to life on a Canadian stage for the first time in decades.

Native Earth Performing Arts has announced the line-up for their 29th annual festival of Indigenous work, Weesageechak Begins to Dance.

Unlike anything you've seen or experienced before, THE BOX is the exclusive 'cabaret nouveau' theatre of varieties concept anchored in New York and London.

Acclaimed Adelaide artist Sarah McDonald will celebrate the resilience of the South Australian bush and raise money for the SA Country Fire Service in a special two day only pop-up exhibition in November.

Young People's theatre (YPT) is thrilled to present the Roseneath Theatre production of Spirit Horse, a Native American adaptation by Drew Hayden Taylor from the Irish play 'Tir Na N'Og' by Greg Banks.

In conjunction with the release of Secret Path, the forthcoming album, graphic novel and film, Gord Downie, has announced two very special live shows, in Ottawa (Oct 18) and Toronto (Oct 21), with proceeds directed to reconciliation.

Starvox Entertainment has announced the hilarious hit musical, DISENCHANTED! playing at Toronto's Randolph Theatre from October 20th, 2016.

As previously announced, Hilary Farr of HGTV's Love it or List It will star as the unfairest of fairies, dead set on renovating and re-designing the Kingdom of Torontonia in her own grim image.

Hannah Moscovitch's BUNNY is enjoying its World Premiere at the Stratford Festival's Studio Theatre this season.

Part thriller, part horror fantasy, Little Black Afro Theatre is proud to announce its next production: Swan, a new play by Hamilton-born, Toronto-based playwright Aaron Jan.

 Evolution Dance Theatre (EDT) presents the world premiere of Follow Your Heart, a heart-stopping universal love story and multi-disciplinary spectacle featuring over 45 performers on stage, opens next week and runs September 22-25 at the Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts.

VRTO (Virtual Reality, Toronto) presents FIVARS (Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories), established 2015 the first Canadian festival of its kind, showcasing content producers and storytellers pushing the boundaries of virtual reality and immersive 360 degree videos.

Intersection Theatre presents Pearls & Poison, or The Appropriate Amount of Rouge, a spell-binding story of unlikely murderers.

Imani Enterprises presents the Toronto premiere of She Said/He Said, created and directed by award-winning artist Anne-Marie Woods (aka Amani).

The Canadian Opera Company officially starts it's performance season with the following operas and free concert series in October!