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Theatre in Toronto is moving and shaking.

A subway platform proves a fascinating setting for this relationship comedy about the bond formed between two strangers - a struggling sitcom writer and a subway kiosk owner.

BroadwayWorld Toronto Award-winner Nathaniel Bacon and Kit Boulter reunite with music director Mike Ross and the band from their smash hit production of 'Hedwig and The Angry Inch' for a night of music and horror!

Harbourfront Centre is excited to present the inaugural Shield To Shore Festival, showcasing the cultural riches of the St.

Jackie Maxwell concludes her 14-year tenure as the Shaw Festival's Artistic Director with Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – A Musical Thriller, by legendary Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim.

Original Kids Theatre Company to present first Canadian youth production of SCHOOL OF ROCK

The 2015/16 season ends on a positive note for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO).

This real life flashpoint is the inspiration for If Truth Be Told, a gripping new play by Beverley Cooper receiving its world premiere this summer at the Blyth Festival from July 27 to September 3 in Blyth's Memorial Hall.

With performances only beginning last week, David Mirvish and The Royal Shakespeare Company and The Dodgers are delighted to announce that popular demand for the Canadian premiere production of MATILDA THE MUSICAL is once again forcing them to extend its run, this time through Novem

Wavestage Theatre Company enters its 22nd Season with a limited engagement of RAGTIME THE MUSICAL at Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts this summer! The production will run from July 14-17 with a talented cast of 58 performers.

THE DANCE OF DEATH, August Strindberg's groundbreaking play in a new version by renowned Irish playwright Conor McPherson, begins previews on July 13 at the Shaw Festival's Studio Theatre.

From October 12 - November 6, Pleiades Theatre, in co-production with Theatre francais de Toronto, presents the Toronto premiere of The (Post) Mistress (in English, from October 25 to November 6) and Zesty Gopher s'est fait ecraser par un frigo (in French, from October 12 to 23), the latest musical

The Shaw Festival has unearthed a bit of a gem, that in lesser hands may be considered no more than a cubic zirconium.

A subway platform proves a fascinating setting for this relationship comedy about the bond formed between two strangers - a struggling sitcom writer and a subway kiosk owner.

BroadwayWorld Toronto Award-winner Nathaniel Bacon and Kit Boulter reunite with music director Mike Ross and the band from their smash hit production of 'Hedwig and The Angry Inch' for a night of music and horror!

A brilliant production of Matilda the Musical opened last night in Toronto at The Ed Mirvish Theatre.

Original Kids Theatre Company is thrilled to present the first Canadian youth production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's newest Broadway musical, SCHOOL OF ROCK, at the Spriet Family Theatre, 130 King Street, in London, Ontario from tonight, July 7, to July 16.

Original Kids Theatre Company is thrilled to present the first Canadian youth production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's newest Broadway musical, SCHOOL OF ROCK, at the Spriet Family Theatre, 130 King Street, in London, Ontario from tonight, July 7, to July 16.

This season at the Stratford Festival's Tom Patterson Theatre, audiences have the opportunity to witness Shakespeare's Henriad in a unique and exciting new way.

MATILDA THE MUSICAL begins performances in Toronto, tonight, Tuesday July 5 at the Ed Mirvish Theatre.

Starring a cast of acclaimed Canadian musical theatre performers in principal roles and three exciting young talents sharing the title role, MATILDA THE MUSICAL is produced by The Royal Shakespeare Company and The Dodgers presented in Toronto by David Mirvish as part of his 2015-16 Main

In the fall of 2016, theatre maven and master teacher Adam Lazarus will launch Play On Theatre.

TORN FROM THE PAGES, a series which brings together music and literature in an altogether new way, returns to the Harboufront Centre Theatre on September 23, 2016, presented by Massey Hall.

From June 29 to July 9, James Judd's one-man show, A Minor Mid-Career Retrospective, will embody dozens of characters from his unforgettable but true experiences as he blends his unique brand of humour with autobiographical stories at the Toronto Fringe Festival.

The romantic notion of purchasing one's ancestral home, in Elio Scorsini's case, in northern Italy, conjures up dreams of an idyllic lifestyle of extended vacations, perhaps even retirement.