by Keira Grant - April 27, 2026
Even if you are lukewarm to early 20th-century avant-garde music and don’t care for Schoenberg’s serial composition music-baby, you are sure to be won over by the brilliance of these performers and the creative team....
by Ilana Lucas - April 24, 2026
Anyone who’s spent ten minutes online in the past decade knows that we live in an age of anger and polarization when it comes to the issues and identities we hold dear. Stories abound about families who can no longer speak to each other or even share a meal, with jagged cracks in the foundations o...
by Keira Grant - April 17, 2026
Opera Atelier’s 2025-2026 production of Claude Debussy’s Pelléas and Mélisande is a departure from the company’s production modus operandi that will leave a lasting impression on audiences and signal a new era of innovation for Opera Atelier....
by Ilana Lucas - April 17, 2026
In Jen Silverman’s The Moors, the slightly deranged love child of the Brontës, Waiting For Godot, and Six, Emilie the governess (Blessing Adedijo) arrives at a manor amidst the titular plains to find that nothing is quite as she expected. Branwell, her supposed employer and warmhearted correspond...
by Ilana Lucas - March 24, 2026
When it comes to adaptations of French playwright Edmond Rostand’s romantic tragedy Cyrano de Bergerac, you can take your pick of the nose....
by Ilana Lucas - March 06, 2026
What did our critic think of THE NEIGHBOURS at Tarragon Theatre?...
by Ilana Lucas - March 05, 2026
Bad Dog Theatre’s new improv show at Factory Theatre revolves around a storyteller who shares three short stories from their lives about what it means to be a person in Toronto. After each tale, the team of improvisers serves up a set of improv based on—or, at least, tangentially related—to ob...
by Ilana Lucas - March 05, 2026
Master puppeteer Ronnie Burkett brings the beautiful handcrafted marionettes of the Daisy Theatre to Canadian Stage’s Berkeley St. location for a run of LITTLE WILLY, an anarchic riff off Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in the same vein as 2022’s Little Dickens....
by Ilana Lucas - February 25, 2026
I grew up with Robert Munsch stories. If you grew up in Canada, it’s likely you did, too—or you’ve read them to your children, or grandchildren. ...
by Ilana Lucas - February 25, 2026
Many of us have, at some point in our lives, operated on the basic assumptions that our chosen communities, particularly those aligned by basic ideology, had our best interests at heart and would look out for each other. ...
Past Shows
Toronto Film School's acting students will bring one of theatre's most enduring courtroom dramas to life next month, when their production of 12 Angry Jurors...
Step into a Toronto story brought to life, told through improv. People of the City is Bad Dog Theatre’s Armando-style show where real Torontonian stories...
Back for its 3rd year, Holiday! An Improvised Musical is inspired by Stephen Sondheim’s Company, with this one-of-a-kind musical party entirely made up on the...
A Nightwood Theatre production in association with The Howland CompanyWritten by Rachel CairnsDirected by Courtney Ch’ng LancasterIn Hypothetical Baby, Rachel Cairns mixes data and drama...
Attention, singles! Forget awkward dating apps and overpriced dinners—this Valentine’s Day, treat yourself to a night of hilarity, spontaneity, and maybe even a little romance....
The live game show where comedians compete in silly and ridiculous tasks—with a Valentine’s-themed twist!After sold out shows across the city, the Chorelord (Brandon Hackett)...
The holidays are here, the gifts are wrapped, the tree’s sparkling, and the fruitcake has found its annual re-gifted home. Now all that’s missing is...
Non-binary computer programmer Basil (they/them) wakes to a new world and devastating loss. Using live music, dance, and video, I Don’t Even Miss You is a bold...
A one-night-only Pride Month double-bill featuring two of Toronto’s funniest gays / gayest funnies!Work-in-Progress by Sam SferrazzaFor comedian Sam Sferrazza, there are some implicit rules in...
What happens to the life of the party once the party’s over?Charming trainwreck Iggy Beamish officiates straight weddings for a living while avoiding the reality...
An Incomplete List of All the Things I'm Going to Miss When the World is No Longer: is a cutting-edge, Queer pop musical that takes a...
James & Jamesy: Easy as PieThese titans of physical comedy are returning to the Toronto Fringe on their North American Tour. A pie… A face... How...
Personal Life - FailedProfessional Life - FailedSocial Life - Non existent All that is about to changeJawbone is a provocative, bold, dark comedy about a...
In this homage to one of North America's most influential performers, Gene Kelly's life and career are reinterpreted for the 21st century stage. Everyone knows...
Through contemporary and jazz movement, Hooked looks at seven characters and how they function with their own increasingly addictive dependencies. It explores the possibility of...
Silly Billy (noun; informal) 1. a silly or foolish person 2. someone who acts in a dim-witted way, whether by accident or on purpose 3....
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