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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 featuring yellow and white text superimposed over a blue-filtered photograph. Spotlight at The Second City. Toronto. The centre of the "O" in "Spotlight" is the silhouette of a spotlight. A view from the back of a comedy venue in an old brick building with crescent-shaped windows. Cabaret seating, with tables and chairs, facing toward the stage.

Spotlight at The Second City: October

PAST EVENT: Tue, Oct. 14 & Wed, Oct. 15, 2025: Toronto Sketch Comedy & The Second City Toronto present the October edition of Spotlight at The Second City, featuring $20 Sandwich and Sarah Bennett, at The Second City’s Theatre ‘73. For adults 18+.

Past event: Greyed out distressed collage image of a paper heart, curling up at the bottom, featuring a black & white photo of a young women, two band-aids in an X shape and R4J written inside a drawn heart.

Romeo Pimp by Jesse McQueen

PAST EVENT: From Wed, Sep. 17 – Sun, Oct. 5, 2025: The King Black Box, in partnership with One East Productions, presents the world premiere of Jesse McQueen’s play Romeo Pimp. A high school senior’s life transforms when she falls in love for the first time – but as her world expands, so does the distance between the life she’s always known and the life she's being pulled into. Charity preview presentation on Sun, Sep. 14. Audience discretion advised; ages 16+.

Past event: Greyed out image featuring text superimposed over a photo collage. Beats Breath. Nagata Shachu. Jiro Murayama (master bamboo flutist from Japan). To the right: Medium close-up of a Japanese man wearing a white fedora with a black band and a black shirt, holds a flute as he looks off to the right. To the left: An ensemble of Japanese taiko drummers performs on stage, featuring a drummer in the centre, wearing a loincloth, the light focused on him.

BEATS-BREATH: Nagata Shachu & Jiro Murayama

PAST EVENT: One night only - Sat, Oct. 4, 2025: Taiko ensemble Nagata Shachu kicks off their 28th season with BEATS-BREATH, an exciting collaborative concert with shinobue (bamboo flute) master Jiro Murayama at The Fleck at Harbourfront Centre Theatre. Together, they’ll perform new compositions and traditional Japanese folk festival pieces.

Past event: Greyed out medium close-up of a man with short curly dark hair, beard and moustache, wearing glasses, a black vest over a bare chest, gazes at us. A pixilated patterned image is projected on him and on the wall behind him, the entire image bathed in purple blue light.

The Green Line

PAST EVENT: From Fri, Sep. 19 – Sat, Oct. 4, 2025: Buddies in Bad Times Theatre opens their 47th season with the Toronto premiere of award-winning Canadian play The Green Line, by Makram Ayache. Two love stories twist together in two Beiruts riven by time & conflict. Produced by In Arms Theatre Company & the MENA Collective, in association with Buddies in Bad Times Theatre & Factory Theatre. For audiences 19+.

Past event: Greyed out image of two South Asian clowns performing on stage, both wearing blue tutus, pale grey long-sleeved t-shirts, yellow vests and black pants. The male clown, wearing a black cap, is on the floor as the female clown, wearing a yellow cap stands over him, her left leg extended as she rests her foot against his left shoulder. She smiles with triumph, while he looks surprised and shocked.

Colonial Circus

PAST EVENT: Tue, Sep. 23 – Sun, Sep. 28, 2025: Two2Mango brings their award-winning clown show Colonial Circus to Toronto, running at Native Earth’s Aki Studio. Through bouffon, song, dance, audience interaction, gestures and morphing props, two Brown clowns give a hilarious, unforgettable lesson on the history of colonization. For audiences 16+. 

Past event: Greyed out logo for What The Festival, featuring a WTF! in white font with black shadow superimposed over a pointy pink comic book explosion bubble against a grey blue background.

What The Festival 2025

PAST EVENT: Three days only – from Thu, Sep. 25 – Sat, Sep. 27, 2025: Strange Maker Collective presents their second annual What The Festival, an active celebration of all things drag, clown and puppetry. Toronto's wildest live theatre festival features eyebrow-raising spectacles, theatre and cabaret performances, plus a balloon workshop and a panel on clown and bouffon. Weird & wonderful - they have it all! Happening in spaces at Youngplace. For audiences 18+.

Past event: Greyed out image featuring text & photographs. A five-piece band (keyboard, two guitars, bass and drums) performs on a spot-lit stage. Top: Classic Troubadours Live. Bottom text & images: the songs of, with black & white thumbnail headshot images of two men & two women, each labeled (left to right) James, Joni, Jackson & Carole. Song titles below the four images.

Classic Troubadours Live: The Songs of James, Joni, Jackson & Carole

PAST EVENT: One night only – Wed, Sep. 24, 2025: FLATO Academy Theatre presents Classic Troubadours Live: The Songs of James, Joni, Jackson & Carole, an extraordinary musical journey that celebrates the timeless songs of James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne and Carole King – performed by award-winning singer-songwriter Jacob Moon, and an incredible ensemble of singers and musicians.

Past event: Greyed out detail of a collage image containing various photos of the same man, with close-ups of skyscrapers in the background on either side. In the main central image, he has short cropped hair, light beard and moustache, and wears glasses and a suit as he gazes down, smiling at us. In the other smaller photos, he wears eye glasses, sunglasses or no eyewear as he strikes various poses in a variety of outfits - in some cases, taking a selfie.

The Second City Toronto presents: Sam Sferrazza records a comedy album

PAST EVENT: One night only - Sat, Sep. 6, 2025: The Second City Toronto presents stand-up comedian Sam Sferrazza, recording a live comedy album during two performances at the John Candy Box Theatre with opening act Ben Sosa Wright. Come out and be a part of the studio audience – and have your laughter immortalized forever! For adults 18+. 

Past event: Greyed out image featuring yellow and white text superimposed over a blue-filtered photograph. Spotlight at The Second City. Toronto. The centre of the "O" in "Spotlight" is the silhouette of a spotlight. A view from the back of a comedy venue in an old brick building with crescent-shaped windows. Cabaret seating, with tables and chairs, facing toward the stage.

Spotlight at The Second City

PAST EVENT: Tue, Sep. 2 & Wed, Sep. 3, 2025 + one Tue & Wed every month until the end of 2025: Toronto Sketch Comedy & The Second City Toronto present Spotlight at The Second City, a new monthly series presenting sketch comedy’s best troupes. September’s line-up features award-winning Potato Potato & Small Friend Tall Friend – on at The Second City’s Theatre ’73. For adults 18+.

Past event: Greyed out illustrated poster image for Dear Ms. Kitt, the title in red handwritten font at the left against a charcoal black background. To the right: A beam of yellow light across the floor, where the black silhouette of a little girl sits in front of a microphone stand toward the top right, and the grey shadow of an adult woman holding a suitcase stretches out across the floor behind her.

Dear Ms. Kitt

PAST EVENT: From Wed, Aug. 20 – Sun, Aug. 24, 2025: Hard-Bitten Productions presents the Canadian premiere of Chantel Winters’ play Dear Ms. Kitt. A powerful and tender family drama about guilt, identity and accountability, held together with a little girl’s love of Eartha Kitt. Running at Native Earth's Aki Studio. For audiences 16+.

Past event: Greyed out image of two play posters, featuring illustrations & yellow text, side by side. Left: The 39 Steps. Adapted by Patrick Barlow from the novel by John Buchan from the movie by Alfred Hitchcock - against a blue background. Above the text, a silhouette of a man running toward an ascending staircase, a biplane in pursuit in the cloudy sky above. Right: Heratio by Genevieve Adam on a purple background. Below the text, a white skull wearing gold crown, with a purple flower at its temple.

Guild Festival Theatre 2025 Summer Season

PAST EVENT: From Thu, Jul. 10 to Sun, Aug. 24, 2025: Guild Festival Theatre’s 2025 summer season features a world premiere inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet and a tour-de-force comedy spy thriller based on a Hitchcock classic, as well as the fourth edition of their popular Family Fest. Plus, an exciting season launch on Thursday, July 3, featuring Aqua’s Red Rhythm & Blues group!