Toronto
Toronto Sketchfest
TOsketchfest is carefully curated to showcase the most exciting comedic voices from across North America. The 2026 festival features its largest lineup to date, presenting over 70 high-energy showcases by more than 75 comedy troupes, spanning contemporary sketch comedy, drag, storytelling, musical comedy, and clown.
The festival also proudly presents the 9th annual TOsketchfest Film Festival presented by New Metric Media, featuring hilarious short films and micro-shorts from creators around the globe.
Returning this year, International Women’s Day programming on Sunday, March 8 will feature a full day of performances by all female and non-binary artists.
Alongside a stacked lineup of shows, TOsketchfest presents a Learning + Fun series of workshops and panels for artists and the comedy-curious, offering an accessible look at the creative process and the community behind the laughs.
March 4 – 15
The Theatre Centre – 1115 Queen St W and Comedy Bar – 945 Bloor St. W
https://torontosketchfest.com/
The Herald – It Could Still Happen in partnership with Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
A lecture on Antonio Banderas’ astrological chart, a chorus questioning their calling, and a long walk in a small mortal body. Jill Connell’s poetics work backward, interlacing Greek myth and the grindset, trying to figure out how we got here. The Herald navigates the choreography of labour as it asks us for faith and gives us something like meaning, or at least a new way of paying attention. By the end of the play, all of us will know how to be in Shoppers Drug Mart, wondering how to handle time, and what will happen to all the work we do not make.
The Herald is a play, but it’s also a soundtrack, a costume drama, an art installation, and a movement piece. The show interrogates the value of work, how to be in community, and the desire to make meaning of our time on earth
March 4 – 14
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre – 12 Alexander St
https://buddiesinbadtimes.com/show/the-herald/
Women at Play(s) 8
Women At Play(s) 8 is a festival of original short one-act plays written, directed, and performed by Canadian women-identifying playwrights, directors, and actors. Women at Play(s) 2026 will take you on a journey from a young woman’s life changing discovery in New York in 1901 (“Daddy’s Girl” by Emma Donoghue) to tough life decisions for contemporary seniors in Vancouver (“Aging in Place” by Barbara Ellison) to a forest where nature and religion collide (“The Mary Tree” by Brenda Kamino). Seven new plays ponder beginnings (“Waiting for Love” by Lindsay Ellis), celebrate achievements (“And The Oscar Goes To…” by Colleen Curran and “The Circle” by Rebecca Singh) and remember survivors (“A Violation of Violets” by Marni Walsh). Surprises, secrets and lies abound in stories that will make you laugh, cry, dream and think.
March 6 – 8, 11 – 15
VideoCabaret – 10 Busy St
ZAYO – dance immersion and TO Live
ZAYO is an Afrofusion dance-theatre work rooted in ancestral wisdom and the courage to follow one’s calling. Created over eight years, the piece follows a heroine on a hero’s journey as she leaves the familiar, faces trials and sacrifice, and confronts fear to claim her power. Through this journey, ancestral memory is awakened and a chosen destiny is embraced. ZAYO reveals what it takes to step into purpose and emerge transformed.
March 13 – 15
Meridian Arts Centre – Greenwin Theatre – 5040 Yonge Street
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Blithe Spirit – Guelph Little Theatre
Widowed seven years ago, and married to his second wife for five, author Charles Condomine invites a local medium to his home for research on his next book. The seance results in the appearance of his first wife’s ghost, who then proceeds to disrupt the household, with hilarious results.
This classic farce, “Blithe Spirit” was written by Nöel Coward in 1941 as a morale-raiser for Londoners ravaged by the Blitz. It ran for 1,997 consecutive performances in London’s West End and for 650 in its original run on Broadway. It has kept audiences laughing ever since, as Coward’s most popular work.
March 26 – 29, April 10 – 12
Guelph Little Theatre – 176 Morris St, Guelph
https://guelphlittletheatre.littleboxoffice.com/events/128952#location
Music of the Night: The Concert Tour – Sound the Alarm Music/Theatre
This continued concert celebration of Andrew Lloyd Webber finally returns to Southern Ontario, after its SOLD OUT tour in 2023! This tour has been celebrated across Canada, and for the first time, we are also visiting The Maritimes.
Concert includes selections from 10 of his iconic musicals:
Phantom of the Opera, Evita, Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar, Sunset Blvd, and more!
With a celebrated professional cast and a live band, we are sure this parade of musical offerings will overwhelm the musical senses.
March 6
McIntyre Performing Arts Centre – 135 Fennell Ave W, Hamilton
A View from the Box 