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Review: BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE/ERWARTUNG at Four Seasons Centre For The Performing Arts


by Keira Grant - April 27, 2026

Even if you are lukewarm to early 20th-century avant-garde music and don’t care for Schoenberg’s serial composition music-baby, you are sure to be won over by the brilliance of these performers and the creative team....

Review: STRIFE at Tarragon Theatre


by Ilana Lucas - April 24, 2026

Anyone who’s spent ten minutes online in the past decade knows that we live in an age of anger and polarization when it comes to the issues and identities we hold dear. Stories abound about families who can no longer speak to each other or even share a meal, with jagged cracks in the foundations o...

Review: PELLÉAS AND MÉLISANDE at Koerner Hall


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....

Review: THE MOORS at The Theatre Centre


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...

Review: CYRANO at CAA Theatre


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....

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. ...

Past Shows

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...

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...

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...

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...

Shirley Valentine
Shirley Valentine
Nov 21 – Nov 24, 2024

Shirley Valentine produced by Firefly CollectiveThe heroine in this actor's tour-de-force play called Shirley Valentine by Willie Russell is an ordinary middle class English housewife....

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 FranceAdapted and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

To Be or Not To Be
To Be or Not To Be
Jun 18 – Jun 20, 2024

Toronto Film School’s Christopher Sawchyn has long desired to direct a Russian comedy on stage, so when he chanced upon Miriam Laurence’s To Be or...

Departures & Arrivals
Departures & Arrivals
Mar 20 – Mar 22, 2024

Toronto Film School Acting for Film, TV & the Theatre students will tackle Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields’ 1990 play Departures & Arrivals next week...

Everybody
Everybody
Mar 20 – Mar 22, 2024

Toronto Film School's Acting for Film, TV & the Theatre students will bring their production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ 'Everybody' to the stage at Papermill Theatre March...

The Dead
The Dead
Dec 21 – Dec 23, 2023

Toronto Film School acting students will revive a classic James Joyce tale later this month, when their adaptation of The Dead hits the stage at...

The Government Inspector
The Government Inspector
Dec 20 – Dec 23, 2023

A group of talented acting students from Toronto Film School will attempt to “shed light on the things we prefer to keep in the dark”...

Twin Freaks
Twin Freaks
Dec 20 – Dec 23, 2023

Toronto Film School acting students will delve into the surrealist mind of award-winning filmmaker David Lynch this month when their production of Twin Freaks comes...

Angel of Death
Angel of Death
Sep 20 – Sep 22, 2023

Toronto Film School will bring Angel of Death – its adaptation of Luis Bunuel’s The Exterminating Angel – to the stage at the Papermill Theatre this...

Luces Nocturnas
Luces Nocturnas
Sep 20 – Sep 22, 2023

A group of Toronto Film School’s talented Acting for Film, TV & the Theatre students will bring a story about a country in the throes...

A Hollywood Christmas Carol
A Hollywood Christmas Carol
Dec 15 – Dec 17, 2022

Charles Dickens' beloved classic, A Christmas Carol, will get a modern twist when Toronto Film School’s upcoming production of A Hollywood Christmas Carol takes to...

Hearts Like Planets
Hearts Like Planets
Dec 14 – Dec 17, 2022

Toronto Film School's adaptation of Adam Szymkowicz’s Hearts Like Planets takes to the stage at Papermill Theatre Dec. 14-17. "Hearts Like Planets (at its pun-filled heart) is...

It's a Wonderful Life
It's a Wonderful Life
Dec 14 – Dec 17, 2022

Toronto Film School is set to bring Frank Capra's It’s a Wonderful Life to the stage at Papermill Theatre later this month.Directed by Andy Massingham, this...

Home-Sick
Home-Sick
Sep 13 – Sep 15, 2022

Toronto Film School's acting students will return to the stage at The Papermill Theatre this month with a live, in-person production of Home-Sick. Directed by...

Road
Road
Sep 13 – Sep 15, 2022

Life is long. Life is hard. Those are the two key points hammered home in Road, Toronto Film School's latest stage production about a rundown...

The Wild Guys
The Wild Guys
Oct 25 – Nov 9, 2019

The Wild Guys is a Canadian comedy about four very different middle-aged men who end up on weekend getaway together in the bush. Their reasons...

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