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ARTATTACK!

Nov 5

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

Nov 12 – Nov 15, 2026

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...

Toronto Burlesque Festival 2026: REVERIE

Nov 12 – Nov 15, 2026

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...

GLORY!

Jan 20 – Jan 24, 2027

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! 48: CROSSROADS

Feb 17 – Feb 20, 2027

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...

DIE TONIGHT, LIVE FOREVER, or, The Nosferatu Principle

Mar 10 – Mar 27, 2027

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...

DIMANCHE À SODOME

Apr 8 – Apr 10, 2027

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...

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Articles

Review: THE DESCENT OF ORPHEUS at Koerner Hall

Review: THE DESCENT OF ORPHEUS at Koerner Hall

by Keira Grant · October 24, 2026

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…

Review: PROPHETESS at Tarragon Theatre

Review: PROPHETESS at Tarragon Theatre

by Samantha Wu · October 16, 2026

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 …

Review: COSĺ FAN TUTTE at Four Seasons Centre For The Performing Arts

Review: COSĺ FAN TUTTE at Four Seasons Centre For The Performing Arts

by Keira Grant · October 4, 2026

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…

Review: BOOTY CANDY at Buddies In Bad Times Theatre

Review: BOOTY CANDY at Buddies In Bad Times Theatre

by Keira Grant · October 2, 2026

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…

Review: ALICIA KEYS' HELL'S KITCHEN at CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre

Review: ALICIA KEYS' HELL'S KITCHEN at CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre

by Samantha Wu · September 28, 2026

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

Review: WALDEN at The Theatre Centre

by Ilana Lucas · September 27, 2026

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

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…

Past Shows

33 total · showing 31–33

Unholy

Unholy

Nov 23 – Dec 10, 2017

A Nightwood Theatre production. Written by Diane Flacks and directed by Kelly Thornton. “Should women abandon religion?” Four female panelists face off in a wild, whip-smart public debate about religion and misogyny. With opinions flying from a progressive Muslim lawyer, an...

Sharron & George's SUPERFUN Christmas SING-ALONG!

Sharron & George's SUPERFUN Christmas SING-ALONG!

Dec 19 – Dec 20, 2015

AFTER THREE HIT runs in 2012, 2013 AND 2014, Sharron Matthews and George Masswohl, acclaimed Canadian musical theatre couple wanna bring you a little Christmas, AGAIN!!! Sharron and George's Super Fun Christmas Sing-A-Long is a BONA FIDE Christmas tradition, people! The previous...

The Femme Playlist

The Femme Playlist

Oct 10 – Oct 25, 2014

Through the use of Filipino fan dancing and soulful singing, Catherine Hernandez uncovers the realities of living as a queer woman of colour. From masturbation to motherhood, body shame to burlesque, this multidisciplinary experience reveals what it’s like to be sexy and proud...

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