Upcoming Shows
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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....
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....
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