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AKI STUDIO

585 Dundas Street East
Toronto, ON M5A 2B7

Upcoming Shows

Paprika Festival
Paprika Festival
May 12 – May 16, 2026

Paprika Festival is proud to announce programming for the 25th anniversary festival taking place May 12-16, 2026 at Native Earth’s Aki Studio in Toronto. Paprika...

bol, brown boy, bol
bol, brown boy, bol
May 20 – May 24, 2026

 bol, brown boy, bol is a cheeky, heartfelt solo show about Nawaaz's journey of reclaiming his voice and cultural inheritance through learning tabla, a northern...



Review: BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE/ERWARTUNG at Four Seasons Centre For The Performing Arts


by Keira Grant - April 27, 2026

Even if you are lukewarm to early 20th-century avant-garde music and don’t care for Schoenberg’s serial composition music-baby, you are sure to be won over by the brilliance of these performers and the creative team....

Review: STRIFE at Tarragon Theatre


by Ilana Lucas - April 24, 2026

Anyone who’s spent ten minutes online in the past decade knows that we live in an age of anger and polarization when it comes to the issues and identities we hold dear. Stories abound about families who can no longer speak to each other or even share a meal, with jagged cracks in the foundations o...

Review: PELLÉAS AND MÉLISANDE at Koerner Hall


by Keira Grant - April 17, 2026

Opera Atelier’s 2025-2026 production of Claude Debussy’s Pelléas and Mélisande is a departure from the company’s production modus operandi that will leave a lasting impression on audiences and signal a new era of innovation for Opera Atelier....

Review: THE MOORS at The Theatre Centre


by Ilana Lucas - April 17, 2026

In Jen Silverman’s The Moors, the slightly deranged love child of the Brontës, Waiting For Godot, and Six, Emilie the governess (Blessing Adedijo) arrives at a manor amidst the titular plains to find that nothing is quite as she expected. Branwell, her supposed employer and warmhearted correspond...

Review: CYRANO at CAA Theatre


by Ilana Lucas - March 24, 2026

When it comes to adaptations of French playwright Edmond Rostand’s romantic tragedy Cyrano de Bergerac, you can take your pick of the nose....

Review: THE NEIGHBOURS at Tarragon Theatre


by Ilana Lucas - March 06, 2026

What did our critic think of THE NEIGHBOURS at Tarragon Theatre?...

Review: PEOPLE OF THE CITY at Factory Theatre


by Ilana Lucas - March 05, 2026

Bad Dog Theatre’s new improv show at Factory Theatre revolves around a storyteller who shares three short stories from their lives about what it means to be a person in Toronto. After each tale, the team of improvisers serves up a set of improv based on—or, at least, tangentially related—to ob...

Review: LITTLE WILLY at Canadian Stage


by Ilana Lucas - March 05, 2026

Master puppeteer Ronnie Burkett brings the beautiful handcrafted marionettes of the Daisy Theatre to Canadian Stage’s Berkeley St. location for a run of LITTLE WILLY, an anarchic riff off Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in the same vein as 2022’s Little Dickens....

Review: LOVE YOU FOREVER AND MORE MUNSCH at Young People's Theatre


by Ilana Lucas - February 25, 2026

I grew up with Robert Munsch stories. If you grew up in Canada, it’s likely you did, too—or you’ve read them to your children, or grandchildren. ...

Review: EUREKA DAY at Coal Mine Theatre


by Ilana Lucas - February 25, 2026

Many of us have, at some point in our lives, operated on the basic assumptions that our chosen communities, particularly those aligned by basic ideology, had our best interests at heart and would look out for each other. ...

Past Shows

White Girls in Moccasins
White Girls in Moccasins
Mar 22 – Apr 12, 2026

Native Earth Performing Arts and manidoons collective will present the anticipated return of White Girls in Moccasins by Yolanda Bonnell to Tkarón:to, March 22-April 12,...

UPU
UPU
Feb 27 – Mar 1, 2026

Native Earth Performing Arts is proud to present UPU by UPU Collective with the support of Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa from February 27-March 1,...

Niimi’iwe Dance Double Bill
Niimi’iwe Dance Double Bill
Feb 5 – Feb 8, 2026

Dance Double Bill

Colonial Circus
Colonial Circus
Sep 23 – Sep 29, 2025

Two Brown clowns playing British colonizers

All That Is Between
All That Is Between
Sep 12 – Sep 14, 2024

Tiger Princess Dance Projects proudly presents All That Is Between, an evocative dance piece that explores the intricate dynamics of collective identity and the experience...

Videos


bol, brown boy, bol  in Toronto bol, brown boy, bol
Aki Studio (5/20-5/24)
Bravo Academy Youth Troupe Presents Anne of Green Gables: The Musical in Toronto Bravo Academy Youth Troupe Presents Anne of Green Gables: The Musical
Meridian Arts Centre: Studio Theatre (5/15-5/16)
The Importance of Being Earnest in Toronto The Importance of Being Earnest
Stratford Festival (5/19-10/23) PHOTOS
Relive the Music 50s, 60s & 70''s Show in Toronto Relive the Music 50s, 60s & 70''s Show
Thunder Bay Community Auditorium (9/17-9/17)
Primary Trust in Toronto Primary Trust
Crow's Theatre (5/26-6/21)
World On Fire in Toronto World On Fire
The Assembly Theatre (5/27-6/07)
Koe Wetzel in Toronto Koe Wetzel
Abbotsford Centre (7/11-7/11)
The Good, The Bad, The Young & The Restless  in Toronto The Good, The Bad, The Young & The Restless
Bad Dog Theatre Company (5/08-5/22)
Guys and Dolls in Toronto Guys and Dolls
Stratford Festival (4/22-11/01) PHOTOS
The Hobbit in Toronto The Hobbit
Stratford Festival (4/21-10/23) PHOTOS