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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

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Soundstreams presents: with you and without you

PAST EVENT: One night only – Sat, Mar. 22, 2025: Soundstreams presents with you and without you at the Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts. The brilliant soprano Danika Lorèn joins the virtuoso chamber orchestra Ensemble Soundstreams for a program that examines the tragic nature of song and that understands all love songs as songs of loss.

Past event: Greyed out illustrated image of a woman, naked from the waist up with a patterned sheet wrapped around her hips, sitting at an antique typewriter. Top right, in the background, a vintage typewriter keyboard chart.

Alumnae Theatre presents: Age of Arousal

PAST EVENT: From Wed, Mar. 12 – Sun, Mar. 23, 2025: Alumnae Theatre presents Age of Arousal, a powerful ensemble piece by award-winning Canadian playwright Linda Griffiths. Wildly inspired by The Odd Women, by George Gissing. Set in an era of tumultuous change, this play explores the forbidden and gloriously liberated self, where characters grapple with explosive and contradictory desires. For adult audiences.

Past event: Greyed out image featuring text and a photograph against a black background. Left: 1237 Queen St W Danu Social House presents: A 90 minute immersive experience. Many Happy Returns. Tuesdays at 8. Nov. 26, 2024. Jan. 21, 2025. Feb. 18, 2025. Mar. 18, 2025. Two production company logos. Right: Black & white photo of a 1920s woman, sitting on a stack of books on top of a short wooden step ladder, a book open in her lap as she gazes off and up to the left. In the background, a book shelf with a champagne bottle and glasses, one glass atop a stack of books on the middle shelf.

Many Happy Returns: Immersive & Interactive Show

PAST EVENT: Tuesday nights on Jan. 21, Feb. 18 & Mar. 18, 2025: Intrigue X & BEARS! In the City! remount their 2024 summer hit Many Happy Returns, a 90-minute immersive & interactive theatre experience set during New Year’s Eve 1924, hosted by Danu Social House. This unique performance event will appeal to anyone who loves the décor, clothing, slang & tomfoolery of the roaring 20s, plus scavenger hunts! For audiences 19+.

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.

Past event: Greyed out image featuring text and a photograph. Top left: Martha Graham Dance Company. Bottom left: Logo for Dance at TPAC. A female dancer in a deep red period dress dances, standing on her left toes, right leg lifted and arms raised in a semi-circle around her head.

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.

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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+.