You, Always – Canadian Stage

In the wake of shocking news, sisters Liz and Delia unravel a lifetime of memories, traveling across space and time to trace the push and pull of their relationship over their fifty-year shared history with humour, nuance, and candor. You, Always is an ode to sisterhood – to the brutal honesty, raucous silliness, and unflinching support of an indispensable sibling.  

This new play by Governor General’s Award-winning playwright Erin Shields was developed as part of Canadian Stage’s New Work Development Program. Directed by Nightwood Theatre Artistic Director Andrea Donaldson, this stunning new play strikes a universal chord. 

January 31 – February 22

Berkeley Street Theatre – 26 Berkeley Street

https://www.canadianstage.com/shows-events/season/you-always

WITCH – Soulpepper Theatre Company

A devil, a deal, and a woman who won’t play by the rules.

A charming devil strolls into the quiet village of Edmonton, ready to strike a deal—your soul in exchange for your deepest desire. Easy enough. But when he sets his sights on Elizabeth, long ostracized as a “witch,” she refuses to be bought. Darkly funny, subversive, and razor-sharp, Witch is a wickedly modern take on a Jacobean drama, where power is up for grabs, survival is a gamble, and the devil might just be the most honest one in the room. Don’t miss the Toronto premiere of Jen Silverman’s critically acclaimed play.

January 29 – March 1

Michael Young Theatre at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts – 50 Tank House Lane

https://www.soulpepper.ca/performances/witch

Eureka Day – Coal Mine Theatre

Eureka Day is a private California elementary school with a Board of Directors that values inclusion above all else – that is, until a controversial issue forces everyone in the community to reconsider the school’s libertarian policies. As the situation develops, the board realizes with horror that they’ve got to do what they swore they never would: make a choice that won’t please absolutely everybody.

February 1 – 22

The Coal Mine Theatre – 2076 Danforth Ave

https://www.coalminetheatre.com/eureka-day

Copperbelt – NAC English Theatre and Soulpepper Theatre Company

Eden has left her wealthy family in Zambia to build an independent life for herself in Toronto, where she works as a junior operations manager at a prestigious international mining firm. But when her estranged father falls ill, she is forced to return home to the Copperbelt and confront the very problems she has been trying to escape. While she can change her name, can she truly break free from the hold her family has over her personal and professional future?

Natasha Mumba’s world premiere takes its audience from The Big Smoke to Zambia’s Copperbelt unraveling the secrets and power struggles within the Kasuba family, as Eden grapples with the tension between her personal ambitions, her family’s expectations, and the steep price some must pay for success.

February 7 – March 1

Baillie Theatre at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts – 50 Tank House Lane

https://www.soulpepper.ca/performances/copperbelt

Summer and Smoke – Crow’s Theatre and Soulpepper Theatre, in Association with Birdland Theatre

In a small town in the heat of summer—under the wings of an angel—Alma Winemiller, minister’s daughter, meets John Buchanan, the reckless and intoxicating doctor next door.

As summer deepens—and their longing for one another intensifies—desire, duty, and convention collide, dangerously blurring the line between passion and ruin.

Blistering, poetic, and rapturous, this rarely-staged 20th-century masterpiece is Tennessee Williams at his most heart-rending.

February 3 – March 1

Guloien Theatre at Streetcar Crowsnest – 345 Carlaw Ave

https://www.crowstheatre.com/shows-events/summer-and-smoke

Through the Eyes of God – Theatre Passe Muraille

Two decades after Anusree Roy wrote her hit play Pyaasa, she returns to Theatre Passe Muraille with a powerful sequel — Through the Eyes of God.

Chaya, the protagonist at the centre of the original play, is now a spirited young woman and mother, who is arrested for the desperate act of stealing rice to feed her young daughter Krishna. But soon she faces a far greater horror: Krishna has been trafficked to Delhi. Driven by primal love, she embarks on a gut-wrenching journey through the underbelly of a broken system, where every lead is a gamble and every choice is impossible. Through the Eyes of God is a piercingly emotional and sharply critical journey that asks: How far will a mother go to protect her child?

February 1 – 21

Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace – 16 Ryerson Ave

https://www.passemuraille.ca/through-the-eyes-of-god/

An Intervention – Downstage Theatre Co.

A touching, funny play about what happens when your closest friendship starts to unravel. One of them went to the anti-war protest, shouted their lungs out, then got horrendously and staggeringly drunk. The other stayed at home, watched TV for a bit, and thought about the future.

February 13 – 15

Aki Studio – 585 Dundas St. E

https://nativeearth.ca/shows/all-shows/an-intervention

Searching for Aimai – Cahoots Theatre

In Searching for Aimai, a woman is about to give birth. Afraid and unsure, she wonders how she can bring a child into the world – and teach her daughter to claim who she is – when her own connection to her ancestry feels so fraught and diminished? This question, among others the play poses, captured the imagination of award-winning theatre artist Raha Javanfar, who makes her highly-anticipated directorial debut. The widely sought-after multiple Dora Award recipient, acclaimed in the theatre and performing arts world as a gifted musician and designer, was both personally and professionally enticed to direct the piece.

February 15 – March 1

BMO Incubator at The Theatre Centre – 1115 Queen St W

https://cahoots.ca/production/searching-for-aimai

Pride and Prejudice – Wren Theatre

Step into the world of wit, romance, and societal intrigue with Wren Theatre’s original adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice,” penned by Jesse McQueen and Ferron Delcy. This fresh take on the beloved classic brings new life to the timeless tale of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr.Darcy, filled with clever twists and delightful surprises. Don’t miss this captivating journey on stage!

February 18 – 22

Randolph Theatre – 736 Bathurst St

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/wrentheatre/1929894

Night at the Grand Guignol – Eldritch Theatre

Come with us, back in time, to a dingy theatre in Paris in the 1920s, as we present our versions of the dangerous, blood-drenched, sexually depraved, horrifically horrible horrifying horrors that entertained, scandalized, and horrorized horrified audiences at the fabled home of horror, Le Theatre du Grand-Guignol, the First Theatre of Horrific Horror.

You will laugh with fear and scream with mirth during hot and cold showers of madness, terror, torture, depravity and rivulets of spilled, crimson, flowing blood.

Not for the dourly puritanical, timidly squeamish, or Victorian of heart.

February 18 – March 1

Red Sandcastle Theatre – 922 Queen St West

https://eldritchtheatre.ca/guignol/

How to Feel – Sawdust Theatre Productions

How to Feel is a dramatic comedy about the complexities of relationships and emotional life among young adults in contemporary Canada.

It follows Sam, a melancholic twenty-something, whose best friends Jamie and Phoebe form the brunt of his social world – along with his therapist, Johnathan. Together, against an uncertain future, Sam and his friends do their best to navigate love, friendship, childhood trauma, and late capitalism.

This new Canadian play presents a raw, honest exploration of the tensions between wanting and having, between personal growth and existential acceptance.

February 27 – March 1

Annex Theatre – 730 Bathurst St

The Neighbours – A Green Light Arts Production, in Association with Tarragon Theatre

Simon and Denise reside in a modest house on a quiet street, their life blissfully low-key and unassuming. But when it comes to light that their next-door neighbour has been hiding a sinister secret, it forces the couple to re-examine the past, leading the audience to a surprising conclusion that asks hard questions about the bonds that unite us.

From Governor General’s Award winner, Nicolas Billon (Butcher, Iceland), The Neighbours examines how good people can be complicit in acts of cruelty.

February 14 – March 15

Tarragon Theatre Extraspace – 30 Bridgman Ave

https://tarragontheatre.com/plays/2025-2026/the-neighbours/

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