ArtAttack! is Buddies in Bad Times Theatre's art party fundraiser extravaganza and one of Toronto's best-loved art auctions. The event offers art aficionados and novices alike an exclusive chance to take home a work of art by over 60 visual artists.
Toronto Burlesque Festival returns to Buddies in Bad Times Theatre with its 2026 edition themed REVERIE, offering four nights of world-class burlesque, cabaret, and drag featuring artists from Toronto, across Canada, and around the globe. Headliners include Lou Lou la Duchesse...
REVERIE is the 14th edition of the Toronto Burlesque Festival, featuring four nights of burlesque, cabaret, and drag performances spotlighting over 50 artists from around the world. Headliners include Lou Lou la Duchesse de Rière, Jeez Loueez, Jezebel Express, and Burlesque Hall...
A We Quit Theatre production presented by Buddies in Bad Times, co-created by Emma Beech, Dhanu Chinniah, Arne MacPherson, Gislina Patterson, and Dasha Plett, and directed by Gislina Patterson. GLORY! is a contemporary dance docu-drama set in the labyrinthine Playboy mansion...
Rhubarb! returns for its 48th year as Canada's longest-running genre-bending festival of Live Art, with Festival Director Ludmylla Reis. The 2027 edition is themed around the concept of the crossroads — a meeting of the path being chosen and the path being left behind, a place...
A Buddies in Bad Times production in association with Modern Times Stage Company, written by Sivan Ben-Yishai and directed by ted witzel. The play follows a real estate agent selling soulless mansions to rich heterosexuals while pursuing his own oblivion, a writer resisting the...
A Les Ecornifleuses production co-presented by Théâtre français de Toronto and Alliance Française de Toronto, written by Jordan Tannahill, translated into French by Olivier Sylvestre, and directed by Jocelyn Pelletier. The play reimagines the biblical figure of Lot's wife — here...
Opera Atelier specializes in 17th- and 18th-century works, and Co-Artistic Directors Marshall Pynkoski and Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg are highly adept at bringing them to life with fidelity to the conventions of the time. Impressively, they manage to do this in a way that never feels tone deaf to mo…
Prophetess is a rabbit hole kind of tale, one that's a chaotic descent into madness. Playing now at the Tarragon Theatre until November 1 2026, this dynamic production is written by Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho) and directed/dramaturged by Mike Payette. Prophetess is the kind of show that is ripe for theatre …
The Canadian Opera Company’s remount of its 2014 production of Cosí Fan Tutte, originally directed by Atom Egoyan, brings to bear all of the performance and creative excellence for which the COC is known. However, in the post- #MeToo era, and amidst the Cornell 7 scandal, this 236-year-old work h…
Booty Candy is perfect for 2026. It has just the right blend of hilarity and hyperbole to take your mind off current events and just enough home truths to give a voice to the shared pain, fear and rage of all of us whose very existence is subversive during these turbulent times. At a time when pla…
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…
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.…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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A Buddies in Bad Times and Obsidian Theatre Company production written by Robert O'Hara and directed by Jay Northcott. Bootycandy is a meta-theatrical, semi-autobiographical dark comedy that follows a young man's experience of power, permissibility, and privilege from the...
Arias of Seduction is a genre-defying opera-pole-burlesque hybrid created by Khadija Mbowe, presented by Operatika and Buddies in Bad Times as part of the Queer Pride Festival.
The Buddies Emerging Creators Unit Showcase is presented as part of the Buddies in Bad Times Queer Pride Festival, highlighting emerging queer artists.
Gay AF Comedy is a comedy night presented as part of the Buddies in Bad Times Queer Pride Festival.
Homo Night in Canada is a comedy night presented as part of the Buddies in Bad Times Queer Pride Festival.
Horny Newsletter is a live reading series by Christopher Sherman, presented as part of the Buddies in Bad Times Queer Pride Festival.
Les Femmes Fatales presents a burlesque performance as part of the Buddies in Bad Times Queer Pride Festival.
Pride Prom returns for its 26th edition with the theme Electric Garden, a popular event geared towards queer youth under the age of 21, presented by Pride TO and Supporting Our Youth as part of the Buddies in Bad Times Queer Pride Festival.
Buddies in Bad Times presents its annual Queer Pride Festival featuring over 30 shows, concerts, events, and parties throughout the Buddies space. This year's headliner is Cain Culto, a singer, rapper, producer, and visual artist who combines high and low art, political protest...
SLUR is Buddies in Bad Times' weekly nightlife event programmed by Rae Abunahla, with two extra-special Pride editions featuring guest appearances by Gay Jesus and Vivek Shraya.
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Adventure of the Little Rooster Wychwood Theatre (11/14-11/22) |
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An Improv Halloween - A Spooky Improvised Comedy! The John Candy Box Theatre (10/09-10/30) PHOTOS VIDEOS |
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The Roll Players Comedy Bar Danforth (6/30-12/29) |
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Grand Soft Day Studio, Young People's Theatre (4/24-5/02) |
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Cabaret Canadian Stage (2/13-2/28) |
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HARMONY OF THE WORLD Meridian Arts Centre (3/06-3/06) |
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Fred Penner: The Hero in You Ada Slaight Stage, Young People's Theatre (3/06-3/20) |
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Something Rotten! Stratford Festival (5/11-11/15) PHOTOS |
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Mistletoe & Mistakes The Moonlight Lounge at TacoTaco (12/06-12/06) |
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Heist Theatre Aquarius (4/28-5/15) |
