De Profundis: Oscar Wilde in Jail is a musical adaptation of Oscar Wilde's prison letter to the man he loved, written during his imprisonment. Adapted and directed by Gregory Prest, with original music and lyrics by Mike Ross and Sarah Wilson, the production returns to...
The Thrill of Hope: A Holiday Concert is a new work created by Beau Dixon, Raha Javanfar, and Luke Reece, directed by Reece at Soulpepper's Michael Young Theatre. The concert draws on the age-old human tradition of meeting the darkest nights of the year with music and song...
Last Waltz is a docu-concert created and directed by Frank Cox-O'Connell that revisits The Band's legendary 1976 farewell performance on its 50th anniversary. The original concert featured a historic lineup including Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Muddy Waters, and Eric...
Edward Albee's The Zoo Story, directed by Frank Cox-O'Connell, is a darkly funny and unsettling one-act play that unfolds on a quiet park bench when a stranger named Jerry disrupts an ordinary afternoon for a man named Peter. Noah Reid and Peter Fernandes star in this intimate...
Jocelyn Bioh's Tony Award-winning comedy Jaja's African Hair Braiding receives its Canadian premiere in a co-production from Soulpepper Theatre, Obsidian Theatre, and Nightwood Theatre. Set inside a bustling Harlem hair-braiding salon on a sweltering July day, the play follows...
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…
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…
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SERENADES AND SWEETHEARTS 19 on the Park Stouffville (2/11-2/11) |
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Pippin Factory Theatre (11/15-11/21) |
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Sex in the '80s Canadian Stage (1/16-2/07) |
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Cabaret Canadian Stage (2/13-2/28) |
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ROMANCE IN BLUE AND GOLD Flato Markham Theatre (12/05-12/05) |
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Theatre Aquarius (11/18-12/20) |
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Experience HYPROV: The Ultimate Live Comedy & Hypnosis Show Roy Thomson Hall (11/06-11/06) |
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Heist Theatre Aquarius (4/28-5/15) |
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Mistletoe & Mistakes The Moonlight Lounge at TacoTaco (12/06-12/06) |
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Light in the Darkness - Find the Beauty Grace Church on-the-Hill (12/04-12/04) |
