Category: Theatre
2012-02-18 - World Stage 2012
World Stage has returned to Harbourfront Centre for the 2012 season (Feb 18-May19, 2012) and it is full of new and exciting performances! World Stage is an acclaimed international performance series, featuring provocative and cutting edge international and Canadian contemporary performances! Eight hand-picked…
2012-03-08 - The F Word - Toronto Premiere
Written by Telly award winner Jennifer Phillips and directed by Loretta Chen, this is a giant step towards global empowerment of women. Inspired by the stories of real women around the world, this play encompasses the trials, tribulations, joy, pain, and the jubilation that women face. The F Word is…
2012-05-28 - The Script Tease Project 2012- National Theatre of the World
Continuing to push the boundaries of what theatre and improvisation can be, notorious crowd pleasers Matt Baram, Naomi Snieckus, and Ron Pederson have invited renowned playwrights from Canada and beyond to pen the first two pages of a new play (just a *tease*) and seal them in an envelope. Each night…
2012-05-02 - Big Ideas 2012
The award-winning writers of Alumnae Theatre’s New Play Development Group
present tabletop readings, staged readings, mini-productions of short plays,
long plays, and scenes from full-length plays.
Admission is Free
2012-05-02 - Gruesome Playground Injuries
Toronto, Ontario BirdLand Theatre is proud to present the Canadian premiere production of Pulitzer Prize Finalist Rajiv Joseph’s dark romantic saga GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES Gruesome Playground Injuries explores the cost of wounded friendships. Over the course of 30 years, the lives of Doug and…
2012-05-11 - Life as a Pomegranate
A new one woman show.
Written and performed by Dawna Joy Wightman.
2012-05-03 - Lost Lounge
Legendary New York performance group Split Britches offer up a tribute to what we have lost in the rising sea of urban gentrification. Lost Lounge is a refuge for a culture that sits on the edge of extinction. Through loving recreations of seminal lounge acts from the glory days of NYC's Bowery Corridor,…
2012-11-29 - The Big Band Show
The Big Band Show is a rare chance to experience the power and beauty of a full 25-piece big band in an extraordinary range of music written for the genre. The legendary Duke Ellington's 1960 Nutcracker Suite, Stravinsky's Ebony Concerto, and the Jazz Suite No. 1 by Shostakovich are performed by a veritable…
2012-09-15 - OBAABERIMA
Imprisoned in Canada for committing a violent crime, a young man from Ghana tells his cellmates a story on the eve of his release. Although there is great risk in sharing his tale, he must tell it to be truly free. Through storytelling, dance, and live music, Obaaberima chronicles a young African-Canadian's…
2012-10-19 - The Normal Heart
Larry Kramer's landmark play chronicles the rise of the AIDS crisis in New York City as seen through the eyes of writer/activist Ned Weeks, the gay Jewish founder of a prominent HIV advocacy group. The Normal Heart's political and sexual polemics polarized the gay community when it was first performed…
2013-02-20 - The 34th Rhubarb Festival
For two weeks, hundreds of local and international artists transform Buddies into a hotbed of creativity and experimentation, sharing new ideas in contemporary theatre, performance art, dance, and music with adventure-loving audiences.
2013-03-16 - Arigato, Tokyo
One of our country's most distinct and celebrated writers pens a darkly poetic love letter to love itself. From the underground nightclubs of Tokyo to the hallowed stages of Noh Theatre, a visiting Canadian author is pulled into a world of obsession, sex, and longing. The award-winning creative team…
2013-04-24 - A Few Brittle Leaves
Veteran actors Edward Roy and Gavin Crawford play a pair of spinster sisters who, through a series of touching and comedic disasters, are forced to deal with the question: how does one age gracefully? Perennial provocateur Sky Gilbert returns to Buddies with this gender-bending dramatic comedy.
2013-05-14 - Of A Monstrous Child: A Gaga Musical
Performance legend Leigh Bowery hosts an irreverent musical cabaret devoted to of one of our most enigmatic and polarizing pop stars, Lady Gaga. Featuring a collection of the art world's greatest icons, this "dance floor dialectic" celebrates the place where high culture hooks up with low art. Brought…
2012-09-29 - Canadian Opera Company Presents: Il Trovatore
Verdi’s Il Trovatore mesmerizes audiences with its scorching tale of the vengeful gypsy Azucena, her son Manrico’s romance with the noblewoman Leonora, and his rivalry with the Conte di Luna. From the raucous Anvil Chorus to the hair-raising tenor aria “Di quella pira,” a superb cast will carry…
2012-06-25 - Dora Awards
The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) proudly announces that the 33rd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards, celebrating extraordinary Toronto talent in the performing arts. The Dora Mavor Moore Awards honour the creators of over 200 theatre, dance and opera productions annually in five major…
2012-06-14 - Sistering Presents the 10th Annual Funny Girls and Dynamic Divas
Celebrating 10 years of laughs and spirited entertainment, Sistering presents the 10th Annual Funny Girls and Dynamic Divas on Thursday, June 14 at the Bluma Appel Theatre – 27 Front Street East. Beginning at 6 p.m., this cabaret of Toronto’s top female comedians and musicians is sure to be a fabulous…
