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Bluma Appel Theatre

27 Front Street E.
Toronto M5E 1B4

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Fall For Dance North Festival 2026 - LEGENDS: Signature Programme 1

Oct 15 – Oct 17, 2026

LEGENDS is an international mixed programme of women-led companies weaving together jazz, classical Indian dance, ballet, and contemporary dance. The programme features Hubbard Street Dance Chicago performing the Canadian Premiere of Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon's Sweet Gwen Suite...

Fall For Dance North Festival 2026 - HEARTBEATS: Signature Programme 2

Oct 17 – Oct 18, 2026

HEARTBEATS is a tribute to street dance as a transformative form of storytelling, featuring artists from Canada, Nigeria, the UK, and France. Co-curated by Brampton-based dancer and choreographer Kwasi Obeng-Adjei and Robert Binet, the programme includes the North American...

Fall For Dance North Festival 2026 - HEAR THE DANCE: Signature Programme 3

Oct 22 – Oct 24, 2026

HEAR THE DANCE reveals the inner world of dance performance through three pieces encompassing flamenco, contemporary, and new work. The programme includes the Canadian premiere of Partita, choreographed by New York City Ballet Resident Choreographer and Tony Award-winning...

LANDSLIDE

Oct 24 – Oct 25, 2026

LANDSLIDE is a full-length work choreographed by Alyssa Martin and performed by her company Rock Bottom Movement. Set to an original composition inspired by Fleetwood Mac's iconic ballad, the work explores the primal call of parenthood and the question of whether to usher in a...

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)

Nov 6 – Nov 22, 2026

Ann-Marie MacDonald returns to the role of Constance Ledbelly, an overlooked academic who tumbles into the worlds of Othello and Romeo and Juliet following a distressing revelation about her supervising professor. She discovers that Shakespeare's heroines, and Constance herself...

Review: LA TRAVIATA at Four Seasons Centre For The Performing Arts

Review: LA TRAVIATA at Four Seasons Centre For The Performing Arts

by Keira Grant · September 20, 2026

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

Review: SPRING AWAKENING at Soulpepper Theatre

by Elizabeth Armstrong · September 18, 2026

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

Review: AMADEUS at Shaw Festival

by Michael Rabice · August 24, 2026

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

Review: SLEUTH AND ONE FOR THE POT at SHAW FESTIVAL

by Michael Rabice · August 8, 2026

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

Review: THE GREAT GATSBY at CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre

by Louis Train · August 7, 2026

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

Review: MAMMA MIA! at Princess Of Wales Theatre

by Elizabeth Armstrong · August 6, 2026

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.…

Past Shows

BURN BABY, BURN

BURN BABY, BURN

Jun 6 – Jun 8, 2025

BURN BABY, BURN is an electrifying dance production led by Guillaume Côté for Côté Danse , lighting up the Bluma Appel Theatre stage in Toronto from June 6-8, 2025 . This visually stunning and emotionally charged performance explores humanity’s ability to ignite change amidst...

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