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…
33 total · showing 11–20
The Two-Spirit Cabaret returns for its 10th annual edition, presented with Native Earth Performing Arts as part of the Buddies in Bad Times Queer Pride Festival.
WISHING WELL returns for its 21st edition, produced by STARLIGHT and Liz Staples, as part of the Buddies in Bad Times Queer Pride Festival.
A Howland Company production in partnership with Buddies Toronto, 2014 / Paris, 1871 / hell, always This is why I quit art. Four poets, a sloppy love triangle, an unfinished art film, and an electric oven. Can we still talk about the apocalypse as if it hasn’t already happened?...
a House of Beida and Buddies co-production I’ve been a bitch as long as I can remember. The Begging Brown Bitch Plays are about lying, sex, and rebirthing oneself: over and over and over again. Zaiba Baig, Peabody Award-winning co-creator of CBC/Max/Sphere Media’s Sort Of...
The Herald, a world premiere production at Buddies in Bad Times, is written and directed by Jill Connell. This innovative piece employs poetics to explore themes of labor, community, and the search for meaning through a blend of Greek myth and contemporary questions. Featuring...
“banana” isn’t just slang — it’s a symbol of the performance, erasure, and reclamation of self. Choreographers Andrew Tay and Stephen Thompson are the co-creators of Make Banana Cry , a genre-defying work merging runway aesthetics with contemporary performance and dance. In an...
The Toronto Burlesque Festival returns November 13th - 16th at the historic Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Whether you're a burlesque aficionado or a first-time attendee, this year's lineup of local and international performers will be sure to bewitch you! With FOUR NIGHTS of...
The Green Line by Makram Ayache An In Arms Theatre Company Production in Association with Buddies + Factory Theatre September 19 – October 4, 2025 $10 / $25 / $45 / $75 all prices + fees Beirut, 1978 / Beirut, 2018 / beyond space and time Memory is a funny thing, so quiet if...
The 2-Spirit Cabaret showcases the vibrant talent of queer and 2-Spirit Indigenous individuals through a dynamic blend of music, dance, drag, performance art, spoken word, poetry, and comedy. The event celebrates the strength and beauty of diverse identities within Indigenous...
The Pride Legacy Pageant will debut on June 19 as part of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre's Pride Month programming. Hosted by Lemon, the winner of Canada’s Drag Race: Canada vs. the World, the event features eight competitors showcasing their talents across two categories. Guest...
|
UNIONVILLE CANADA DAY CELEBRATION Unionville Millennium Square (7/01-7/01) |
|
Roses & Thorns Comedy Bar (11/06-11/27) |
|
Creditors Canadian Stage (4/09-5/02) |
|
TIK TOK BOOM Presents: Tik Tok Boo! Comedy Bar Danforth (10/31-10/31) |
|
2627 PAC Present Season First Ontario Performing Arts Center (9/22-5/22) |
|
A Christmas Carol Fleck Theatre at Harbourfront Centre (11/12-12/23) |
|
THE ART OF SOUND CBC Glenn Gould Studio (6/26-6/26) |
|
A Very Merry Magic Show Wychwood Theatre (12/19-12/23) |
|
Jack and Jill and the Beanstalk Wychwood Theatre (12/05-1/17) |
|
Raised by Women Canadian Stage (3/27-4/11) |
