Toronto Theatre Shows
Find Toronto shows near you including musicals, plays, comedies, tours, family shows & more.
Funny Girl
Set to open April 24, 2026, at the Shaw Festival, this production features Sara Farb in her festival debut as Fanny Brice, alongside a talented cast that includes Qasim Khan as Nick Arnstein and Damien Atkins as Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. Directed by Eda Holmes, with choreography by...
Funny Girl
Funny Girl, directed by Eda Holmes, tells the rags-to-riches story of vaudeville star Fanny Brice, featuring songs including "Don't Rain on My Parade," "People," and "I'm the Greatest Star." Sara Farb stars as Fanny Brice, a born performer who rises to fame with the Ziegfeld...
Heartbreak House
Heartbreak House is a richly layered play by Bernard Shaw, directed by Tim Carroll. The production features Tom Rooney as Captain Shotover and Allison Edwards-Crewe as Ellie Dunn, alongside a talented cast that includes Neil Barclay, Fiona Byrne, and Michael Therriault. This...
Heartbreak House
Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House returns to the Shaw Festival for the 2026 season, directed by artistic director Tim Carroll. Ellie Dunn, played by Allison Edwards-Crewe, is engaged to ruthless businessman Boss Mangan, played by Graeme Somerville, but finds unexpected surprises...
Heaven
Heaven is a contemporary dance work choreographed by Sasha Ivanochko, performed naked and without music, rooted in the idea of heaven as a site of union and exploring the tension between connection and isolation through the body. The 20th anniversary remount features performers...
Heaven
Virtuosic dancer and award-winning choreographer Sasha Ivanochko revisits one of her most ground-breaking works this fall at The Theatre Centre. The gasp of breath, the startling slap of flesh on flesh, the stamp of foot to floor—these are the sounds of vulnerability and power...
Ohio State Murders
Ohio State Murders is a one-act historical drama by playwright Adrienne Kennedy, directed by Philip Akin, making its Shaw Festival debut. Renowned author and Ohio State University alumna Suzanne Alexander, played by Sophia Walker, returns to her alma mater to speak about graphic...
Ohio State Murders
Ohio State Murders, directed by Philip Akin, presents a profound exploration of race, identity, and grief through the lens of Adrienne Kennedy's acclaimed one-act play. Featuring Sophia Walker as Suzanne Alexander and André Morin as Robert Hampshire, this haunting production...
School of Rock
The Grand Theatre's 2026 High School Project will present School of Rock, directed by Lezlie Wade, featuring music direction by Matthew Atkins and choreography by Julius Sermonia. This production invites students from the London area to participate in a unique opportunity to not...
So Now You Know: Personal Stories in Motion
A poignant dance/theatre performance of shared personal stories on love, childhood, family and more.
Spotlight at The Second City
Spotlight at The Second City hosts four solo sketch acts - Ada Nicolle, Ryan Sheedy, Kara Austria, and Taelor Joseph - each performing 15 minute sets. Hosted and produced by Taylor Hreljac and Gabe Meacher, the monthly showcase typically features two acts but expands to four for...
The Second City Toronto: Mainstage Comedy 92nd Revue
For over 65 years, Second City has delighted audiences around the world with brilliant songs, hilarious sketches, and iconic characters. In the time-honoured tradition of The Second City, YOU are invited to become part of our creative process… audiences have the chance to...
12 Hours Comics Night
A mass comic creation-action by Lorena Torres Loaiza, inviting audiences to witness local cartoonists build an installation of 12-page comics through creativity, vibrancy and resiliency, presented as part of the City of Toronto's Nuit Blanche programming.
Amadeus
Tom Rooney portrays Antonio Salieri in a dramatic confrontation with Michael Therriault's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in a staging of Amadeus. Directed by Tim Carroll, this exploration delves into themes of obsession, envy, and the costs of artistic ambition. The cast also includes...
Amadeus
Written by Peter Shaffer and directed by Shaw Festival artistic director Tim Carroll, Amadeus is a historical drama set in 1780s Vienna where composer Antonio Salieri, played by Tom Rooney, finds his brilliant career threatened by the arrival of the gifted Wolfgang Amadeus...
Amuletos
A participatory activation by Alina Peña Iguarán & Alicia Laguna focused on making small textile amulets to be worn close to the body. The piece positions itself as a force of public intervention in the face of displacement, harm and mourning.
Documents Perform 2
Cultural policy becomes performance as a cast of policymakers, artists, academics, and activists rewrite transborder policy, imagining and reimagining the limits of policies and bordermaking in the Americas.
Documents Perform 3
Cultural policy becomes performance as a cast of policymakers, artists, academics, and activists rewrite the Massey Commission, imagining and reimagining the limits of policies and bordermaking in the Americas.
Don't Touch the Art
Devised and curated by Griffin Hewitt, Don't Touch the Art transforms a large building into a living gallery of performance where multiple works, both new and Talk Is Free Theatre favourites, unfold simultaneously across rooms, hallways, and hidden corners. Each encounter is...
Guardians of the Gods
Produced by Theatre Direct and developed by Unga Klara, this play visualizes the perspectives of children across the globe living in a world ruled by adults. Written by Erik Uddenberg and directed by Gustav Deinoff, it received two nominations at the 2026 Dora Mavor Moore Awards...
Measure for Measure
Shakespeare’s tale of justice vs. morality , live on air. Returning to Crow’s Theatre after its acclaimed limited run is House + Body’s bold reimagining of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure , setting this urgent story of justice and morality inside a chaotic modern sound studio...
Measure for Measure
House + Body's reimagining of Shakespeare's classic sets the story inside a contemporary sound studio, where five actors take on twenty characters during a live radio stream. Isabella's brother is sentenced to death, and she embarks on a journey to save his life, confronting a...
MrBallen: Lights out Live
Miscellaneous
Latest Toronto Reviews
Review: ALICIA KEYS' HELL'S KITCHEN at CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre
Multi-Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Alicia Keys lends her soulful and iconic tunes to Hell's Kitchen on stage now at the CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre, directed by Patrick Willingham and Oskar Eustis (artistic director) with book by Kristoffer Diaz. This moving coming-of-age story features the the…
Review: WALDEN at The Theatre Centre
WALDEN is more successful in its exploration of family dynamics than as a work of speculative fiction. However, Icarus Theatre’s production at The Theatre Centre, directed by Erik Richards, still takes off for an engaging 90 minutes of theatre.…
Review: LA TRAVIATA at Four Seasons Centre For The Performing Arts
Canadian Opera Company’s season opener La Traviata pulls out all the stops and sets an extremely high bar for the rest of its 26-27 offerings. My companion has been coming to the opera with me for many years, and she was blown away, proclaiming this as one of her all-time faves. “A triumph,” s…
Review: SPRING AWAKENING at Soulpepper Theatre
Spring Awakening at Soulpepper Theatre is a well-executed and expertly-crafted sensory delight (though the dark themes this play tackles are far from delightful) that offers an intense, almost cinematic theatre-going experience.…
Review: AMADEUS at Shaw Festival
The Shaw Festival seems to be having a small tribute festival to Shaffer brothers as it is presenting two of their known pieces this season. The dark mystery SLEUTH by Anthony Shaffer is now playing to great acclaim at the Court House Theatre and more recently and the comic drama AMADEUS by Sir Pe…
Review: SLEUTH AND ONE FOR THE POT at SHAW FESTIVAL
An embarrassment of artistic riches has yet again convened in Niagara on the Lake for this season’s Shaw Festival. Two very different plays are given world class productions sharing many of the same talents. Last week I attended Anthony Shaffer’s psychological thriller SLEUTH at the intima…
Review: THE GREAT GATSBY at CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre
THE GREAT GATSBY is most definitely not your high school lit class. At the CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre, the music is loud, the dancing is hot, and the passions are hotter.…
Review: MAMMA MIA! at Princess Of Wales Theatre
Now in performances at Toronto’s Princess of Wales Theatre, Mamma Mia! is a delightfully cheerful and charmingly-quirky musical that had audiences roaring with applause and laughter.…
Review: TORONTO FRINGE FESTIVAL REVIEW ROUNDUP 4 at Toronto Fringe
Reviews of Love, Shakespeare, and Rope; A Comedy Show at the End of the World; and Orbit…
Review: TORONTO FRINGE FESTIVAL REVIEW ROUNDUP 3 at Toronto Fringe
Reviews of Pedro the Penguin, 1920s Walking Around in a Dream, Olivia O: The Musical, A Conversation With Myself, and Aliya Kanani: A Comedian's Guide to Enlightenment…
|
HARMONY OF THE WORLD Meridian Arts Centre (3/06-3/06) |
|
THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE Terminal Theatre (6/18-6/20) |
|
Get Down Tonight! Marsh Street Centre (10/14-10/17) |
|
ELEGANCE AND IMAGINATION Flato Markham Theatre (10/17-10/17) |
|
Sisters of '78 Theatre Aquarius (9/30-10/17) |
|
Wine in the Wilderness Canadian Stage (9/19-10/04) |
|
Spring Awakening Soulpepper Theatre (9/10-10/04) |
|
Saturday, Sunday, Monday Stratford Festival (8/04-10/24) PHOTOS |
|
|
The Second City Toronto: Mainstage Comedy 92nd Revue The Second City (8/18-10/04) |
|
Cabaret Canadian Stage (2/13-2/28) |
