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An opening-night celebration hosted by Juno Award-nominated artist Hisham Kelati, featuring stand-up comedy from Rasha Elfeky, Franco Nguyen, Sam Sferrazza, and Martha Chaves. The evening raises funds for The Theatre Centre and includes a pre-show reception, a complimentary...
A stand-up comedy lineup featuring Faith With The Jokes, Lukas Brennan, Jesse Singh, and Ashwyn Singh. Hosted by Janelle Niles of Got Land Comedy.
Jordan follows the inspiring journey of a young Cree boy as he soars through space and time to help Indigenous children. The production from Montreal's Geordie Theatre is a tribute to Jordan River Anderson, whose real-life legacy led to the creation of Jordan's Principle...
Jordan is a Geordie Theatre production written by Yvette Nolan and directed by Jimmy Blais. The play follows Jordan, a young Cree boy who soars across space and time to help Indigenous children, accompanied by his spirit bear, Maskwa. The production is a tribute to Jordan River...
A sketch comedy showcase featuring Imogen Quest, Sarah Conway, Becky Ablack and Zoe Marín from Small Friend Tall Friend, Anders Yates, and Tiyawnda. Hosted by Anasimone, who produces popular shows across Toronto.
Kim Selody's stage adaptation of The Hobbit, based on J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved novel, is directed by Pablo Felices-Luna at the Avon Theatre. Richard Lee stars as Bilbo Baggins, an unassuming Hobbit who is drawn from the comfort of his home into an extraordinary quest across...
The Importance of Being Earnest is Oscar Wilde's comedy of manners directed by Krista Jackson, featuring Carter Gulseth as Algernon Moncrieff, Joe Perry as John Worthing, and Fiona Reid as Lady Bracknell. The play follows two young men leading double lives and assuming false...
Dream Serenade is an annual benefit concert and celebration of Toronto's community of children with developmental and/or physical disabilities and their caregivers. Created by Toronto musician Hayden Desser and his wife Christie Greyerbiehl in 2014, the event features sets by...
Canadian comic Debra DiGiovanni performs her signature fast-paced comedy at The Theatre Centre for the first time. The show also features sketch comedy duo Hackett & Langdon (Brandon Hackett and Jonathan Langdon) and is hosted by liza paul, artistic director of Comedy is Art.
The Theatre Centre has announced year seven of Comedy is Art, three nights of can’t-miss comedy with over 40 comics from across Toronto and beyond. Headlined by legendary Canadian comic Debra DiGiovanni, this year’s festival features a wealth of Canada’s best artists working in...
Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic Death of a Salesman is directed by Dean Gabourie and stars Tom McCamus as Willy Loman and Lucy Peacock as Linda Loman. The production follows an aging salesman who clings to a fading vision of success as memory and reality blur...
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...
An improv and sketch showcase featuring performances from Meet Cute, N***A PROV, and RATS! Another Musical?, hosted by Maricris Rivera of the Tita Collective. Meet Cute features A.C. Birch and Stevey Hunter, N***A PROV is an all-Black improv troupe including Tamara Shevon...
In this comic masterpiece, a lively Neapolitan household is thrown into turmoil when a simmering marital rift between the family matriarch and her withdrawn husband comes to a boil. As emotions flare and generations clash, laughter and love guide the family toward reconciliation...
The National Ballet of Canada performs for the first time ever at St. Catharines' FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre's SPARK Gala in Partridge Hall. The program includes the balcony pas de deux from John Cranko's Romeo and Juliet and The Future at 75, a special performance by...
We tour this show for Grades 4-8 or ages 9 and up to schools across Ontario (and this season Saskatchewan!). This is a free and accessible public performance at Crossroads Theatre. Eli’s maman is having her sadness again and she knows the only one who can help is their neighbour...
Massey Hall presents legendary Canadian Country, Folk, and Bluegrass group The Good Brothers at TD Music Hall on October 24, 2026, marking youngest brother Larry Good's retirement from the group following their October 2026 tour dates. The band, consisting of Bruce Good on...
Directed by Antoni Cimolino in his final Shakespeare production before concluding his tenure at the Stratford Festival, The Tempest stars Geraint Wyn Davies as Prospero, a deposed duke who conjures a storm at sea to draw his betrayers within reach. What begins as a reckoning...
A searing and funny play by Ahmad Meree that puts citizenship itself in the hot seat, interrogating belonging, identity, and the exhausting performance of assimilation. Utilizing a camera, mixed media, and sharp wit, the play traces the journey from leaving home to becoming a...
As the leaves turn and sweater weather sets in, don’t get TOO cozy. October 25th at The Dot is bringing you scheming stepmothers, show stealing sorceresses, velvet voiced villains and a few surprises. Join us, and remember: if someone offers you an apple… think twice before you...
Hell's Kitchen, the Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical featuring music and lyrics by Alicia Keys and a book by Kristoffer Diaz, makes its Canadian premiere at the CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre. The story follows Ali, a 17-year-old searching for freedom and her place in the world...
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...
Lyre Liar is an innovative solo work by Liam Francis that is part dance portrait, part lecture-demonstration, and part autobiography. The piece illuminates both the joy and the burden of a life shaped by learning through imitation. It is presented as a feature-length...
An evening of new ideas, new music, and new stories from Bad Hats Theatre, premiering four newly commissioned mini-musicals by celebrated Canadian music theatre creators alongside highlights from Bad Hats' existing canon and its New Bad Ideas program. Curated and directed by...
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…
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.…
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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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HYPROV: The Hypnosis & Improv Comedy Experience – Live in Ottawa NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE - SOUTHAM HALL (11/12-11/12) |
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Sleuth Fleck Theatre at Harbourfront Centre (10/16-11/01) |
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Jack and Jill and the Beanstalk Wychwood Theatre (12/05-1/17) |
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Pippin Factory Theatre (11/15-11/21) |
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A Christmas Carol Fleck Theatre at Harbourfront Centre (11/12-12/23) |
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Sleigh It Ain't So The Second City (11/19-12/27) |
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How To Defend Yourself Theatre Centre Incubator (11/12-11/28) |
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Macbeth Crow's Theatre (11/03-11/29) |
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Experience HYPROV: The Ultimate Live Comedy & Hypnosis Show Roy Thomson Hall (11/06-11/06) |
