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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 text and a photograph. Top left corner: Toronto's Live Comedy Party is 20. 20th anniversary The Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival. To the right: A Black woman, braided hair up, wearing a "Gentrify This" t-shirt, looks off to the right as she gestures with her left arm.

Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival 2025

PAST EVENT: From Wed, Mar. 5 - Sun, Mar. 16, 2025: The Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary! Join them at The Theatre Centre and Comedy Bar Bloor for an unforgettable celebration of the best live comedy in North America, with 70+ incredible acts and 50+ must-see performances, plus an amazing line-up of workshops as part of their Learning + Fun programming. For audiences 13+. Parental discretion advised.

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The Theatre Centre presents: MONKS

PAST EVENT: One week only, from Wed, Feb. 26 – Sun, Mar. 2, 2025: The Theatre Centre presents the hilariously inventive, critically-acclaimed MONKS, created & performed by Veronica Hortigüela & Annie Luján. Join the monks on a journey for a good time in this interactive clown show featuring magical realism, live music, unbridled chaos & every interpretation of the word “ass”. For audiences 18+.

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Shakespeare BASH’d presents: The Merchant of Venice

Past event: From Thu, Feb. 13 – Sun, Feb. 23, 2025: Join Shakespeare BASH’d at The Theatre Centre for William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, one of the most controversial & divisive plays ever written. Performed by a group of predominantly Jewish artists, this production investigates the antisemitism, xenophobia & racism in this play, asking how they can make something new & reflect the world we see in front of us.

Past event: Greyed out illustrated image for The 25th anniversary production of The Strange and Eerie Memoirs of Billy Wuthergloom. Medium close-up of a human-like creature with long black nails peers out of the darkness from under a bed, its left hand out in the light of the dimly-lit room. Bottom right: A coming of age, suburban-gothic horror musical about puberty and the supernatural!

The Strange & Eerie Memoirs of Billy Wuthergloom

PAST EVENT: From Wed, Jan. 29 – Sun, Feb. 9, 2025: Eldritch Theatre presents a 25th anniversary production of their first play, The Strange & Eerie Memoirs of Billy Wuthergloom, a coming of age, suburban-gothic, horror musical about puberty and the supernatural! Running at Red Sandcastle Theatre. For adult audiences only.

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Martha Graham Dance Company

PAST EVENT: Three performances only – Fri, Jan. 31 & Sat, Feb. 1, 2025: The Tennessee Performing Arts Center presents the Martha Graham Dance Company, the oldest dance company in the United States & the oldest integrated dance company. Celebrating its 100th anniversary, the Company performs three unique works inspired by the American frontier, American folk music & the techno club scene.

Past event: Greyed out image of a man with a white beard and round wireframe glasses, dressed in a winter overcoat over a suit, raises his left hand to touch the underside of the brim of his fedora in a hat-tipping gesture.

Necessary Angel Theatre Company presents: Winter Solstice

PAST EVENT: From Tue, Jan. 14 – Sun, Feb. 2, 2025: Extremism doesn’t kick the door down – it waits for an invitation, then makes itself at home. Necessary Angel Theatre Company, in association with Canadian Stage & BirdLand Theatre, presents the English-language Canadian premiere of Roland Schimmelpfennig’s Winter Solstice. Family, betrayal & the inescapable presence of the past reverberate through this dark, razor-sharp satire.

Past event: Greyed out image of a costumed taiko drum ensemble performing on stage on drums of various sizes, with some drummers sitting on the wooden floor and others on stools or a raised platform at the back. A single drummer in a purple top and black pants sits front and centre, gazing out at us, drumsticks in both hands on either side of a medium-sized drum.

Kodo One Earth Tour 2025: Warabe

PAST EVENT: Two performances only – Sat, Jan. 25 & Sun, Jan. 26, 2025: Cal Performances hosts acclaimed taiko troupe Kodo on their One Earth Tour 2025: Warabe. Exploring the “desire to play the drums with the simple heart of a child”, the ensemble’s athletic drummers create a universe of sound & emotion through thunderous percussion & polished theatricality.

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Last Landscape: a world premiere

PAST EVENT: From Sun, Jan. 12 – Sun, Jan. 26, 2025: In a sometime somewhere devoid of nature, clownish posthuman ‘workers’ assemble a series of artificial landscapes out of found objects, striving to recreate the natural world from memory. Bad New Days, in partnership with Common Boots Theatre, presents the world premiere of Last Landscape at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre.

Past event: Greyed out poster for Die Harsh A Christmas Musical, the title in red and white font over a photo of two men, a perspectival line of skyscrapers in the background. Left: A bald man in a white tank top holding a lighter regards us with narrowed eyes. Right: An auburn-haired man with a beard wearing a suit holds his right index finger to his lips, a gun fitted with a silencer in his left hand.

Die Harsh: A Christmas Musical

PAST EVENT: From Fri, Dec. 13 – Sun, Dec. 29, 2024: Join Grindstone Theatre for some action-packed musical comedy fun with Die Harsh: A Christmas Musical, written by Byron Martin and Simon Abbott, based on their favourite holiday movie. Now an annual Christmas tradition at Grindstone – this time, even bigger and better! For adults 18+.

Past event: Greyed out poster including text and image against a green background, with faint text repeated: It's only a doll. It Sees You When You're Sleeping! A horror play for the holiday season. It's only a doll. Written and performed by Phil Rickaby. Directed by joey o'dael. Eldritch Theatre (green) & Red Sandcastle Theatre (red) logos. At the right: A bald man with a moustache wearing a red and black plaid flannel shirt, his right hand up at his chin, mouth slightly open and eyes wide in a 1,000-yard stare of horror as an elf doll peeks out from behind his right shoulder.

It Sees You When You’re Sleeping!

PAST EVENT: Five performances only – from Thu, Dec. 19 to Sun, Dec. 22, 2024: Phil Rickaby, in association with Eldritch Theatre, presents his solo holiday horror play It Sees You When You’re Sleeping! Witness the terrors that lie just beneath the surface of the season, embodied by the elf doll tradition that so many parents both embrace and dread.

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Theatre Calgary presents: A Christmas Carol

PAST EVENT: From Fri, Nov. 29 – Sun, Dec. 29, 2024: Theatre Calgary brings Charles Dickens’ holiday classic A Christmas Carol, adapted by Geoffrey Simon Brown, to life on stage at the Max Bell Theatre. On Christmas Eve, three spirts take the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge through past, present and future on a journey of self-discovery and redemption. Come and see why this production has become a Calgary holiday tradition.

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Twisted Dog Theatre presents: Unbelievably Believable

PAST EVENT: Limited run, from Thu, Dec. 5 – Sun, Dec. 15, 2024: Twisted Dog Theatre presents the world premiere of Unbelievably Believable, a charming holiday show filled with magic, humour, puppetry and special effects – with unforgettable characters, celebrating dreams, friendship and the spirit of Toronto. Written and directed by Catherine Maleikova. At Red Sandcastle Theatre. For all ages.