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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 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.

Past event: A choir, featuring men and women of various ethnicities, formally dressed, performs - all holding song books.

Festival de la Voix 2025

PAST EVENT: From Fri, Apr. 4 – Sun, Apr. 27, 2025: Festival de la Voix 2025 presents a program of concerts, along with master workshops & seminars, in venues across the West Island. Programming features internationally renowned professional artists & musicians from various backgrounds, cultures & musical styles – from opera to jazz to pop & beyond. Celebrate the power of music & the human voice. Presented by Vox Aeterna. All ages.

Past event: Greyed out poster image featuring burgundy text against a yellow background. Teesri Duniya Theatre presents To Tiohtià:ke from Palestine Keffiyeh/Made in China by Dalia Taha. Directed by: Chelsea Dab Hilke. April 10th - April 26th. Below the text, a head scarf fabric pattern. Below the pattern, a synopsis of the play & cast list.

Teesri Duniya Theatre presents: Keffiyeh/Made in China

PAST EVENT: From Thu, Apr. 10 - Sat, Apr. 26, 2025: Teesri Duniya Theatre presents Keffiyeh/Made in China. It’s a collection of 10 short plays by Dalia Taha, bound together in an unfolding story. Exploring how even the most intimate relationships & everyday occurrences subvert ordinary life under colonization & occupation, these are beautifully mundane moments offered against a backdrop of grief, rage & hope. At Rangshala Studio at Cité-des-Hospitalières.

Past event: Greyed out image featuring text and photographs against a pink background. Top left: A Public Display of Affection. Black & white photo of a man with short cropped hair and black frame glasses, wearing a t-shirt, gestures with his left hand as he gazes off and up to the right. In the background, this photo repeats in a line across the image.

A Public Display of Affection

PAST EVENT: From Tue, Mar. 25 to Sun, Apr. 20, 2025: Studio 180 Theatre, in association with Crow’s Theatre, presents the world premiere of Jonathan Wilson’s solo show A Public Display of Affection in the Crow’s Theatre Studio Theatre. This bracing companion piece to My Own Private Oshawa mixes history, comedy & poignant reflection – excavating the lives, loves & landmarks of Wilson’s life as a queer teenager in Toronto. For audiences 14+.

Past event: Greyed out image of nine cabaret performers of various ethnicities and genders pose in predominantly black costumes highlighted by colourful accessories, gazing at us, a deep red curtain in the background.

Masque of the Red Death

PAST EVENT: From Tue, Apr. 8 - Sat, Apr. 12, 2025: Stella Kulagowski is proud to present the world premiere of Masque of the Red Death at The Assembly Theatre. In this darkly delightful, immersive retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic short story, queer cabaret artists plot revolution in a billionaire’s bunker as the world burns. For adult audiences 18+.

Past event: Greyed out logo image for Women At Play(s) 7, featuring WAP in yellow and purple font, with a purple 7 inside a yellow circle beneath - all against a lavender background.

Women At Play(s) 7

PAST EVENT: From Fri, Mar. 28 – Sun, Apr. 6, 2025: Women At Play(s) presents its 7th festival of short one-act plays at Alumnae Theatre’s Studio Theatre. Written, directed and performed by Canadian women-identifying theatre artists, it features seven original works for a dramatic, comedic and unexpected rollercoaster of a show. Additional accessible, shortened performance added for Thu, Apr. 10 at The PAL Green Room.