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HART HOUSE THEATRE

81 St. Mary Street
Toronto, ON



Review: THE NEIGHBOURS at Tarragon Theatre


by Ilana Lucas - March 06, 2026

What did our critic think of THE NEIGHBOURS at Tarragon Theatre?...

Review: PEOPLE OF THE CITY at Factory 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...

Review: LITTLE WILLY at Canadian Stage


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....

Review: LOVE YOU FOREVER AND MORE MUNSCH at Young People's Theatre


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. ...

Review: EUREKA DAY at Coal Mine Theatre


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. ...

Review: YOU, ALWAYS at Canadian Stage


by Ilana Lucas - February 18, 2026

Erin Shields’ beautiful YOU, ALWAYS, directed by Andrea Donaldson at Canadian Stage’s Berkeley Street Theatre, is a kaleidoscopic, fragmented look at all moments of a sibling relationship, from childhood to maturity and everything in between....

Review: MISCHIEF at Tarragon Theatre


by Ilana Lucas - February 03, 2026

The fish leads a more exciting life when it jumps out of the water to visit mischief on the birds. That’s what Emily (Nicole Joy-Fraser), a 288-year-old spirit, tells Brooke (Lisa Nasson), a young Mi’kmaq woman who Emily feels is treading water instead of emerging from it....

Review: OPHIS at The Great Hall


by Samantha Wu - January 13, 2026

TranscenDance Project is starting off the new year by offering an invitation into the unknown with a remount of their intoxicating interactive production of Ophis. Taking over the multifple rooms and floors of The Great Hall, audience members are invited to don a mask and follow along as dancers tel...

Past Shows

Little Women
Little Women
Nov 13 – Nov 15, 2025
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption
Feb 13 – Feb 15, 2025

The walls of the Shank are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, and you depend on them.When...

Hart House U of T Festival of Music
Hart House U of T Festival of Music
Jan 17 – Jan 18, 2025

Hart House Theatre proudly hosts the second annual - Hart House U of T Festival of Music.This festival provides a celebratory performance opportunity for U of...

The Last Piece in concert
The Last Piece in concert
Nov 7 – Nov 9, 2024

Hart House Theatre is thrilled to present the brand new Canadian musical The Last Piece in concert this fall.Created by award-winning composer Shreya Jha, The Last Piece follows Amara,...

The Rear Window
The Rear Window
May 15 – May 31, 2024

Hart House Theatre presents the Bygone Theatre production of The Rear WindowRecuperating from a broken leg, a news photographer spends his days cooped up in his New York...

I Love You and It Hurts
I Love You and It Hurts
Nov 29

Hart House Theatre presents the Theatre of the Beat production of I Love You and It Hurts.Theatre of the Beat has developed three short forum theatre plays...

Route to Canada
Route to Canada
Sep 30

Montreal Steppers present The Route to Canada– a live presentation of the art form of step, spoken word and song highlighting the resilience, creativity, influence of our ancestors...

Wayne & Shuster
Wayne & Shuster
May 25 – May 27, 2023

Bygone Theatre is thrilled to have the opportunity to bring Jewish Canadian comedy legends Wayne and Shuster back to the stage thanks to the support...

The Gray: A Wilde Musical in Concert
The Gray: A Wilde Musical in Concert
Apr 20 – Apr 22, 2023

The Gray: A Wilde Musical is inspired by Oscar Wilde’s classic, that follows Dorian Gray, a young singer-songwriter determined to be a star, as he enters...

The Birds
The Birds
Nov 25 – Dec 10, 2022

Written and directed by Emily Dix (BWT Best Director of an Equity Play, The Rear Window), The Birds is a new psychological thriller inspired by...

Truth Values
Truth Values
Sep 22

Truth Values is a true-life tale that offers a humorous, scathing, insightful, and ultimately uplifting look at the challenges of being a professional woman in...

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