There really is no place like home, even if that home is an eggplant farm in Guelph rather than the glamorous Torozto! Canadian Stage has taken up the torch of the annual holiday pantomime begun by Ross Petty 25 years ago. They’re reviving this beloved Toronto tradition with the aptly timed The Wizard of Oz:…
“Willkommen! Bienvenue! Welcome!” to the hottest spot in all of Berlin, the Kit Kat Club. Take a trip into the daring underground of 1930’s Germany with Kander and Ebb’s classic Cabaret. An ambitious production from Horrorshow Productions, a relatively new theatre company in the Toronto scene, Cabaret offers an immersive experience from the moment you…
“Who can take tomorrow? Dip it in a dream. Separate the sorrow and collect up all the cream?” The candy man, Willy Wonka, of course! Young People’s Theatre is putting their own spin on the Roald Dahl classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to dazzle audience members of all ages. Directed by the inimitable Thom…
Travel back in time to the jazz age, where the gin flowed all night in the speakeasies, music can be found around every corner, and women have just been given the right to vote in Canada (well, some women). The world premiere of The Bee’s Knees, written and directed by Judy Reynolds, is an interesting…
Welcome sun-seeds! Joy is overjoyed to have you at her “wellness retreat” for the next three months! Such a warm welcome couldn’t come from a cult...could it? Seven strangers think they’re signing up for a life-changing experience, but what they endure is more scary than sunny. Not A Cult: The Musical is an ambitious new…
Immerse yourself in the peace of the pastoral with Handel’s most popular dramatic work Acis and Galatea. The beginning of Opera Atelier’s landmark 40th season, this stunning production is a joyous delight for all ages. Helmed by Oper Atelier’s Co-Artistic Director’s Marshall Pynkoski and Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg, Acis and Galatea is a mythological, romantic epic…
The Toronto Fringe Festival’s Next Stage Festival is back for its 17th year, and once again this year they have 6 exciting shows on offer. All 6 shows take place at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, with four of them in the main Chamber space, and the other two in the Cabaret space. On its…
“Ladies and gentlemen, whether you like it or not, HEDWIG!” John Cameron Mitchell’s opening line to his queer masterpiece Hedwig and the Angry Inch reverberates through the theatre as “America the Beautiful” begins to sound on the electric guitar. Though technically a musical, Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a rock concert, history lesson, and…
Everyone loves a good plot twist in a play, but life has its own way of delivering course-altering plot twists when we least expect them. That’s certainly what happened to Carly Neis, the writer and performer of In My Own Little Corner, who went from needing care to being a caregiver seemingly in the blink…
I love the summer! There’s lots of theatre to see, especially outdoor theatre, while also giving me a bit of a chance to rest before the regular seasons start up again in September. I’m going to be going to some new venues and working with new companies this August, and I’m really looking forward to…
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