250 St Paul St
St. Catharines, ON L2R 3M2
First Ontario Performing Arts Center is a theatre in St. Catharines, ON.
The FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre (PAC) has announced its 26/27 PAC Presents season, with more than 80 shows planned across its four spaces in its downtown St. Catharines venue. The new season, which begins Sept. 22 with the Crash Test Dummies in Partridge Hall, brings...
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...
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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.…
Now in performances at Toronto’s Princess of Wales Theatre, Mamma Mia! is a delightfully cheerful and charmingly-quirky musical that had audiences roaring with applause and laughter.…
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ELEGANCE AND IMAGINATION Flato Markham Theatre (10/17-10/17) |
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Disney and Pixar's Finding Nemo Young People's Theatre (11/26-12/27) |
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Buster Canfield's Nutcracker Prince vs the Rat King Red Sandcastle Theatre (12/17-12/20) |
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Older & Reckless The Citadel: Ross Centre for Dance (10/30-11/08) |
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The Plague Outliers Theatre Collective (11/17-11/29) |
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Pippin Factory Theatre (11/15-11/21) |
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UNIONVILLE CANADA DAY CELEBRATION Unionville Millennium Square (7/01-7/01) |
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show Spooktacular Tour with Nell Campbell Roy Thomson Hall (10/26-10/26) |
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Heist Theatre Aquarius (4/28-5/15) |
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Mad Magic: The Funniest Mad Scientist Magician Wychwood Theatre (10/31-11/01) VIDEOS |
