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Two polaroid photos - one showing watercolour paints and the other showing people walking down a spiral staircase - and several cards with text quotes sit on top of a green background with pink ribbon. Type reads: May 10th, 1771: I am so happy my dearest, so fully absorbed in the feeling of this calm presence, that my art is suffering. I couldn't draw now, not one stroke, and yet I have never been a greater painter than in these moments. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Two polaroid photos - one showing watercolour paints and the other showing people walking down a spiral staircase - and several cards with text quotes sit on top of a green background with pink ribbon. Type reads: May 10th, 1771: I am so happy my dearest, so fully absorbed in the feeling of this calm presence, that my art is suffering. I couldn't draw now, not one stroke, and yet I have never been a greater painter than in these moments. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Performance Performance

Past event: Greyed out image of the poster for the play Hypothetical Baby with text and a photo. Written and performed by Rachel Cairns. Directed by Courtney Ch'ng Lancaster. Below the text, a photo, fractured up the middle, of a young woman with long dark brown hair, wearing a short-sleeve dark orange knit top gazes thoughtfully off to her right. Bottom left: Presented by The Howland Company at Tarragon Theatre December 8-17.

Hypothetical Baby

PAST EVENT. Fri, Dec. 8 – Sun, Dec. 17, 2023: A time-travelling exploration of the personal & societal factors that shape our reproductive lives & the intricate relationship between choice, change & loss. Award-winning theatre artist Rachel Cairns, with the support of The Howland Company, presents the world premiere of Hypothetical Baby at the Tarragon Extraspace. For audiences 16+.

Past event: Greyed out image of poster for Letters from Max, a ritual by Sarah Ruhl. Canadian premiere Nov 10 - Dec 3, 2023. The Theatre Centre. Based on the book by Sarah Ruhl and Max Ritvo. Directed by Alan Dilworth. Get tickets at necessaryangel.com Against a grey background, side by side black and white photos of a woman with long blonde hair and a man with short dark hair, with a painted red wave curling over their heads.

Letters from Max, a ritual

PAST EVENT. From Fri, Nov. 10 – Sun, Dec. 3, 2023: Necessary Angel Theatre Company opens its 45th anniversary season with the Canadian premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s award-winning play Letters from Max, a ritual – a poetic & deeply moving portrait of a friendship & an unforgettable exploration of love, art, mortality & the afterlife.

Past event: Greyed out image of a photo of a man and a woman standing side by side on stage, his left arm outstretched as her right arm curves up toward it.

Same Boat Theatre presents: Whale Fall

PAST EVENT: From Fri, Nov. 17 – Sun, Nov. 26, 2023: Same Boat Theatre presents Stephen Near’s award-winning play Whale Fall at Red Sandcastle Theatre. Part coming of age story, part climate change era fable, it’s the intimate journey of one woman in search of the last remaining orca while struggling to hold on to memories of her father. For audiences 14+.

Past event: Greyed out image of the poster for Soundstreams Mainstage presentation of The Bright Divide, featuring a person playing violin, their back to us, as a beam of light shines behind them.

Soundstreams presents: The Bright Divide

PAST EVENT. Three performances only: Fri, Nov. 10 - Sat, Nov. 11, 2023 at the TD Music Hall. Soundstreams, in partnership with Pinkhouse Productions, presents The Bright Divide, a riveting concert experience including projections. The program features Rothko Chapel by American composer Morton Feldman; and the world premiere of mark by Canadian composer Cecilia Livingston. Recommended for audiences 14+.

Past event: Greyed out impage of the poster for Hagar, with the Pleiades Theatre logo above the title. Close-up photo of a young woman's hand, reaching up from behind a barb wire fence, with a purple and blue-tinged night sky in the background.

Pleiades Theatre presents: Hagar

PAST EVENT. From Wed, Nov. 8 – Sun, Nov. 12, 2023: Pleiades Theatre, in partnership with the Festival of Arabic Music & Arts, presents Hagar, the gripping odyssey of a determined mother striving to find safety with her infant son amidst the chaos of war-torn Syria.

Past event: Greyed out image of the poster for After the Trojan Women, with an illustration of a wooden horse standing in front of a cloudy night sky on the right, with a series of green, yellow, orange and red outlines of squares beside it. To the left are the event details.

Play reading: After the Trojan Women

PAST EVENT. Four nights only; Sat, Oct. 28 – Thu, Nov. 9, 2023: Pleiades Theatre, in partnership with the Festival of Arabic Music & Arts, presents a staged reading of After the Trojan Women, a new full-length play exploring the profound connections & suffering of women in war that span generations, from ancient Troy to present-day Syria.

Past event: Greyed out image of a poster for a play. Shakespeare BASH'd presents Arden of Faversham by Anonymous. Nov 5 2pm 2023 The Monarch Tavern. In the background, an illustration of a rough knife, with three holes in the blade, the handle wrapped in leather strapping.

Play reading: Arden of Faversham

PAST EVENT. One day only – Sun, Nov. 5, 2023: Farce meets tragedy as Shakespeare BASH’d launches their 2023/24 season with a staged reading of Arden of Faversham, a sordid Elizabethan true crime story of love, lust, virtue & murder by Anonymous, at The Monarch Tavern. For audiences 19+.

Past event: Greyed out image featuring text & a photograph. Eldritch Theatre presents Doc Wuthergloom Here There Be Monsters. Created & performed by Eric Woolfe. To the right, Doc Wuthergloom, a man with skull makeup on his face, wearing a black top hat and a black and red striped jacket, holds up a small wooden structure bearing a tiny skeleton and a small jar.

Doc Wuthergloom’s Here There Be Monsters

PAST EVENT. From Wed, Oct. 25 – Sun, Nov. 5, 2023: Step right up as infamous necromancer Doctor Pretorious Wuthergloom presents some ghoulishly giddy tales about the monsters, cryptids & weird creatures that haunt our mortal realm! For audiences 14+. Suitable for deranged weirdos who love horror & dark humour.

Past event: Greyed out image of a colourful child-like stick drawing of a boy, his eyes wide and mouth open. To the bottom left, the black silhouettes of two hands signing.

Anthony’s Journey: Songs That Tell A Story

PAST EVENT. One night only - Sat, Nov. 4, 2023: An accessible concert presentation of Anthony’s Journey: Songs That Tell A Story, an epic, empowering new musical that explores how we’re not alone in our struggles with grief & how we can learn from it by taking care of ourselves & each other.

Past event: Greyed out poster image for the Canadian premiere of Heroes of the Fourth Turning. October 3- 22, 2023. Written by Will Arbery. Directed by Philip Aiken. The Howland Company & Crow's Theatre logos at the bottom. All against the background of a nighttime photograph of a forest of evergreens with a starry sky above.

Heroes of the Fourth Turning

PAST EVENT. Tue, Oct. 3 – Sun, Oct. 29, 2023: Extended by popular demand, The Howland Company & Crow’s Theatre present the Canadian premiere of Will Arbery’s play Heroes of the Fourth Turning. A week after the Charlottesville riots in 2017, an intimate college alumni party spirals into spiritual chaos, clashing politics & stunning revelations. For adults 18+.

Past event: Greyed out image of medium close-up of a woman with a garland of flowers and leaves around the back of her tied up grey hair, a shawl draped over her naked shoulders, in profile gazing off to the left. The words A New Play Bremen Town by Gregory Prest on either side of her.

Bremen Town

PAST EVENT. From Thu, Oct. 19 – Sun, Oct. 29, 2023: Follow the winding journey of an aging laid off housekeeper as she travels to live with her estranged son (doing her best to avoid the stupid Kite Festival along the way) in this rural folk tragicomedy about the painful truth of outliving our use. At Next Stage Theatre Festival. For audiences 18+.

Past event: Greyed out image of the poster for Comedy is Art, featuring photos of a diverse array of stand-up & sketch comedy & music performers against a pink background, arrows pointing up to the right surrounding the title.

Comedy is Art. Festival

PAST EVENT. Five nights only, from Tue, Oct. 24 – Sat, Oct. 28, 2023: The Theatre Centre presents its annual Comedy is Art. Festival. Five nights of comedy & good vibes, featuring stand-up & sketch comedy, improv & music. For audiences 18+. Mature content.