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Talk Is Free Theatre presents: Cock

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.

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Shedding a Skin

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.

Poster image featuring text and illustration. TUFF Toronto Ukrainian Film Festival. Celebrating contemporary Ukrainian film. Presented in partnership with St. Volodymyr Institute. Below the text, an abstract illustration - in yellows, blues and whites - of a landscape by the water, a white orb rising over the horizon line.

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Toronto Ukrainian Film Festival 2025

Four days only! From Thu, Apr. 24 – Sun, Apr. 27, 2025: The Toronto Ukrainian Film Festival (TUFF) presents its 3rd annual festival at the Royal Cinema. Featuring a lineup of remarkable films and documentaries, plus a family-friendly animated adventure, this year’s festival once again showcases a full range of powerful recent work by award-winning, contemporary filmmakers.

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.

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Soundstreams presents: Garden of Vanished Pleasures

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.

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.

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Pleiades Theatre presents: The Roof is Leaking

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. 

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

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Play reading: The Man of Mode

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+.

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Typed with Love: Mother’s Day Event

One night only: Wed, May 7, 2025 – Toronto’s First Post Office hosts Typed with Love: Mother’s Day Event. Join Toronto-based poet, typist and writer Jessica Anne Robinson as she teaches you how to create a perfect customized poem just in time for Mother's Day. Pre-registration required – spots are strictly limited! For participants 18+.

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

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Macbeth: A Tale Told by an Idiot!

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+.

Banner image with white and dark grey font against a burnt orange background, with a diagonal pale orange field in the centre. Being and Becoming presents their series Curiosity in Session. Philosophy classes & workshops on the questions that matter! A new series of programming in addition to our existing Curiosity Cafés. Bottom left: Two rectangular boxes with descriptions of Curiosity Cafés and Skills Workshops. $28 to register | Occurring bi-weekly on non-Café weeks.

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Being and Becoming presents: Curiosity in Session

Sat, May 10 & Sat, May 24, 2025: Being and Becoming presents Curiosity in Session, introducing their first ever Curiosity Classes and Philosophical Skills Workshops on the questions that matter. Learn about philosophy and find community around the philosophical exploration of ideas, questions, and experiences. Held at the Toronto Public Library’s Bloor/Gladstone Branch.

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.

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Genrefuck: two world premieres

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.

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.

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The Theatre Centre presents: asses.masses

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.

Recurring event: A retro illustration of a far away planet with a giant sun shining in the background, where a giant bee attacks a woman in a yellow slip dress. Below it, the words: KILLER B CINEMA.

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Killer B Cinema Monthly B-Movie Screening

The first Friday of every month, join Killer B Cinema hosts Lizzie Violet & Zoltan Du Lac at See-Scape in the Junction for screenings of B-movies from the 1950s to the 1990s, featuring horror, sci-fi, cult films, foreign language adaptations & more. Plus previews & retro & vintage pre-show cartoons! For adults 19+.