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Papermill Theatre

67 Pottery Rd.
Toronto, ON M4K 2B9

Review: AMADEUS at Shaw Festival

Review: AMADEUS at Shaw Festival

by Michael Rabice · August 24, 2026

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…

Review: SLEUTH  AND ONE FOR THE POT at SHAW FESTIVAL

Review: SLEUTH AND ONE FOR THE POT at SHAW FESTIVAL

by Michael Rabice · August 8, 2026

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…

Review: THE GREAT GATSBY at CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre

Review: THE GREAT GATSBY at CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre

by Louis Train · August 7, 2026

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.…

Review: MAMMA MIA! at Princess Of Wales Theatre

Review: MAMMA MIA! at Princess Of Wales Theatre

by Elizabeth Armstrong · August 6, 2026

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.…

Review: GREY SPACES at Theatre Passe Muraille

Review: GREY SPACES at Theatre Passe Muraille

by Elizabeth Armstrong · July 6, 2026

Grey Spaces is a visually-pleasing and highly-ambitious new musical that features strong performances, but lacks clarity and polish. The world premiere musical is playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival from June 30-July 12. …

Review: THE REMAINDERS at Toronto Fringe

Review: THE REMAINDERS at Toronto Fringe

by Elizabeth Armstrong · July 5, 2026

The Remainders is a touching theatrical love letter to public libraries and to any patron who has ever found a sense of belonging through public libraries.…

Past Shows

24 total · showing 1–10

Rochdale

Rochdale

Jun 17 – Jun 20, 2025

Toronto Film School acting students will be transported back to 1960s Toronto when their production of David Yee’s Rochdale hits the stage at the Papermill Theatre. Directed by Rosanna Saracino, the 90-minute play delves into the real-life story of a Toronto-based experiment in...

Almost, Maine

Almost, Maine

Dec 19 – Dec 21, 2024

Toronto Film School acting students will get into the holiday spirit when their upcoming production of John Cariani ’s Almost, Maine hits the stage at the Papermill Theatre later this month. Directed by Christel Bartelse , the 75-minute production comprises of eight short...

Harlem Renaissance

Harlem Renaissance

Dec 19 – Dec 21, 2024

Dora Award-nominated playwright Andrew Moodie is entrusting the world premiere of his latest play, Harlem Renaissance, to his acting students at Toronto Film School. The 75-minute stage production, which will debut at Toronto’s Papermill Theatre featuring a cast of fifth-term...

TomorrowLove

TomorrowLove

Dec 19 – Dec 21, 2024

Canadian playwright Rosamund Small has given a cast of Toronto Film School acting students the greenlight to bring her 2016 collection, TomorrowLove , to the stage. Directed by Dora Award winner Andy Massingham , the company of fifth-term Acting for Film, TV & the Theatre...

Shirley Valentine

Shirley Valentine

Nov 21 – Nov 24, 2024

Shirley Valentine produced by Firefly Collective The heroine in this actor's tour-de-force play called Shirley Valentine by Willie Russell is an ordinary middle class English housewife. As she prepares chips and egg for dinner, she ruminates on her life and talks about her...

Marat's Last Night

Marat's Last Night

Sep 18 – Sep 21, 2024

Toronto Film School’s upcoming stage production of Marat’s Last Night will see its cast of acting students transported to Charenton Sanitorium in 1908 France Adapted and directed by Jonathan Whittaker, the 75-minute play depicts the patients at Charenton performing a play...

The Three Birds

The Three Birds

Sep 18 – Sep 21, 2024

“A woman’s weapon is her tongue.” A group of talented acting students from Toronto Film School will bring their production of Joanna Laurens ’ The Three Birds – an adaptation of a Greek myth – to the stage at the Papermill Theatre this month. Directed by Tanya Rintoul , the...

Those Who Are Lost

Those Who Are Lost

Sep 19 – Sep 21, 2024

Toronto Film School students will tackle a play inspired by the works of Nobel Prize-winning playwright and poet Harold Pinter this month when their production of Those Who Are Lost hits the stage at the Papermill Theatre . Conceived and directed by Aaron Willis, the 75-minute...

Love,Loss, and What I Wore

Love,Loss, and What I Wore

Sep 11 – Sep 14, 2024

Firefly Collective presents Love Loss and What I Wore is a play written by Nora and Delia Ephron (When Harry Met Sally) based on the 1995 book by the same name, llene Beckerman. The play is a series or monologues which uses a rotating cast of five principal women. The subject...

HitchC*CK Hotel

HitchC*CK Hotel

Jun 18 – Jun 20, 2024

Toronto Film School acting students will bring a “cinematic six-pack of Hitch-flicks” to the stage, when they launch their production of Hitchcock Hotel at Papermill Theatre next week. Conceived and directed by Jonathan Higgins , the 75-minute play takes its inspiration from the...

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