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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 detail of an illustration of two Indigenous people standing side by side, the one on the left wearing an animal skin headdress and the one on the right with long black hair. A rainbow arch above them, with a yellow circle enclosing a raven at the top of the arch. Above the rainbow, an arch of plants and flowers.

2-Spirit Cabaret: 9th Edition

PAST EVENT: One night only – Thu, Jun. 12, 2025: Native Earth Performing Arts, in partnership with Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, presents the annual 2-Spirit Cabaret, produced as part of Buddies’ Queer Pride 2025. A celebration of the strength, beauty & talent of queer & 2-Spirit Indigenous people, featuring a mix of music, dance, drag, burlesque & comedy. For audiences 19+.

Past event: Greyed out collage image including overlapping text and photographs. Left: A young Asian woman with long blonde hair in a squat position, her tilted head resting against her right hand as she gazes at us. The word Genrefuck. in script writing. Right: A young Latino man, made up as a woman, and dressed in a red polka dot head scarf and a strapless dress with a frill at the neckline, gazes downward to the right.

Genrefuck: two world premieres

PAST EVENT: From Wed, May 21 to Sat, May 31, 2025: Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, in partnership with fu-GEN Theatre, PNSNV and Pencil Kit Productions, presents the world premieres of Julie Phan’s Never Walk Alone and Augusto Bitter’s Reina. Two intimate, movement-driven solo pieces that transcend genre and gender. Welcome to Genrefuck.

Past event: Greyed out banner image for Orangeville 2025 Blues and Jazz festival, with dynamic black and orange font against a white background.

Orangeville Blues & Jazz Festival 2025

PAST EVENT: Three days only. From Fri, May 30 – Sun, Jun 1, 2025: The award-winning Orangeville Blues & Jazz Festival presents its 2025 program at various venues around downtown. 40+ music artists showcasing Canadian talent – plus workshops, motorcycles and classic cars, artisanal and craft vendors, and local retailers. Live music all weekend long!

Past event: Greyed out image featuring text overlapping a photograph. asses.masses May 24 @ 1pm - English. May 25 @1pm - Spanish. A man with his back to us stands at a podium with a video game controller, watching a large screen showing a pixelated image of a donkey.

The Theatre Centre presents: asses.masses

PAST EVENT: Two days only – Sat, May 24 & Sun, May 25, 2025: The Theatre Centre, in association with Aluna Theatre, presents asses.masses, a custom-made video game about labour, technophobia & sharing the load of revolution, designed to be played from beginning to end in a live theatre. This is a full-day experience with gaming as performance; an immersive, cheeky & highly original work. No previous gaming (or donkey) experience required.

Past event: Greyed out image of a black female ballet dancer wearing a black tank top & white tutu poses on stage under a spotlight, arms raised and left leg forward, toes pointed to the floor.

Native Earth Performing Arts presents: Black Ballerina

PAST EVENT: Three performances only – from Fri, May 23 to Sun, May 25, 2025: Native Earth Performing Arts presents Black Ballerina, created and performed by Syreeta Hector, at Aki Studio. A powerful dance exploration of the nuances within one’s identity, and the unconscious ways that we all try to fit in. For adults 18+.

Past event: Greyed out image featuring text and illustration. Top: Pride and Prejudice by Kate Hamill. Centre: An orange silhouette portrait of a woman with her hair up, wearing a yellow string of pearls, against a blue circular background encompassed with an ornate gold embellishment. Bottom: Adapted from the novel by Jane Austen.

The Grand Theatre presents: Pride and Prejudice

PAST EVENT: From Tue, Apr. 29 to Sat, May 17, 2025: The Grand Theatre presents Pride and Prejudice, written by Kate Hamill, adapted from the novel by Jane Austen & directed by Rebecca Northan. This laugh-out-loud adaptation of the classic Austen romance deftly infuses the beloved Bennets, Bingleys & Darcys with even more saucy irreverence for society’s expectations. The pearls are clutched, the waistlines are empire, the balls are ballistic, & the genders are bending! For audiences age 10+.

Past event: Greyed out image featuring a photograph, with overlapping text. Close-up black & white photo of a bald man with makeup blood running down his forehead, a three-eyed puppet creature peering over his left shoulder. To the left: MACBETH A Tale Told By An Idiot! To the right: The Smash Hit RETURNS (inside a blast bubble). by Weird William Shakespeare. A mesmerizing Macbeth. Five Stars. - Glenn Sumi. A cartoonish Grand Guignal spectacle! - Istvan Reviews

Macbeth: A Tale Told by an Idiot!

PAST EVENT: From Wed, May 7 – Sun, May 18, 2025: Join Eldritch Theatre at the haunted Red Sandcastle Theatre for the horrific return of their hysterically inspired one-man Macbeth! A puppet, mask & magic-filled take on the tale of Shakespeare’s blood-soaked king, with weird witches, viscera-sopped murders, nightmares of madness & terrifying occult prophecies! A hit with audiences & critics alike. For audiences 13+.

Past event: Greyed out close-up view looking into a metal bucket full of water, set on a tile floor. Floating in the water is a vacation photo, torn in two, of a South Asian family of five, standing in front of a sign for Niagara Falls, Canada.

Pleiades Theatre presents: The Roof is Leaking

PAST EVENT: From Fri, May 2 – Sun, May 18, 2025: Pleiades Theatre presents the world premiere of The Roof is Leaking, written by Sanskruti Marathe & Davinder Malhi, at the Berkeley Street Upstairs Theatre. As the death of their father brings a Brampton family to its knees, their mother attempts to divorce her dead husband to find freedom again. A love letter to South Asian mothers. 

Past event: Greyed out image of solid text in grey and blue on a black background. In blue font, across various lines of text: Shakespeare BASH'd presents A Staged Reading by George Etherege May 4th at the Monarch Tavern The Man of Mode

Play reading: The Man of Mode

PAST EVENT: One day only – Sun, May 4, 2025: Shakespeare BASH’d closes their 2024/25 season with a staged reading of The Man of Mode, a riotous and bawdy Restoration comedy on sex, love and marriage by George Etherege, at the Monarch Tavern. Classic comedy of manners at its most biting. Mature content. For audiences 19+.

Past event: Greyed out image featuring text & photograph. To the left: Extended by popular demand! COCK. Mike Bartlett. Just added. April 5 - 20, 2025. Artists Play Studio, Carlaw Industrial Centre, Toronto. Medium close-up of a man with close-cropped hair, beard & moustache, wearing a pale grey button-up shirt, in semi-profile - gazing off to the right with a forlorn expression.

Talk Is Free Theatre presents: Cock

PAST EVENT: RUN EXTENDED! From Sat, Apr. 5 – Fri, May 2, 2025: Talk Is Free Theatre’s production of Mike Bartlett’s Cock returns to Toronto after a sold-out January run & a tour to Japan. Running at the Artists Play Studio, this play is a hilarious & touching look at what happens when a gay man in a seven-year relationship with his partner meets & falls in love with a woman, forcing him to contemplate the boundaries of his identity & decide what he really wants for his future. For adult audiences.

Past event: Greyed out detail of a collage image featuring text & photographs. Top right: Shedding a Skin. Images of a young black woman with short hair, dressed in black, gazing down and smiling, hands clasped in front of her.

Shedding a Skin

PAST EVENT: From Tue, Apr. 22 – Sun, May 4, 2025: Nightwood Theatre, in association with Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, presents the Canadian premiere of Amanda Wilkin’s award-winning solo play Shedding a Skin, starring Vanessa Sears, at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Offering a hand to those feeling the weight of the world, it’s a one-woman comedy about finding kindness in unexpected places and appreciating what our elders can teach us.

Past event: Greyed out image featuring text and a photograph. A man with long honey brown hair, wearing white robe, reads from a book as he stands in front of a classic painting of a male saint, tied to a pillar and shot with arrows. Top left corner: Garden of Vanished Pleasures. Bottom left corner: April 25-27, 2025. Marilyn and Charles Baillie Theatre, Canadian Stage.

Soundstreams presents: Garden of Vanished Pleasures

PAST EVENT: Four performances only, from Fri, Apr. 25 – Sun, Apr. 27, 2025: Soundstreams will cap its 2024/25 season with the live world premiere of original Canadian opera Garden of Vanished Pleasures. It's an emotional opera journey inspired by the life & work of English filmmaker & queer rights activist Derek Jarman. At Canadian Stage’s Berkeley Street Theatre.