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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.

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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.

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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: Greyed out 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

PAST EVENT: 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.

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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.

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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+.

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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.

Past event: Greyed out image of a string ensemble of men and women dressed in black, with eight standing at the back of four who are seated.

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Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” at 300

PAST EVENT: One night only - Sat, Mar 29, 2025: the Royal Conservatory of Music presents Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” at 300 as part of their Chamber Music Concert series, featuring Baroque ensemble Les Arts Florissants. This celebration of music includes a fresh take on the iconic masterpiece, setting the pieces alongside those from the Venice music scene of the period and those that were inspired by Vivaldi’s work.

Past event: Greyed out poster image for Grave Songs. Text on a gravestone reads: Created & performed by Carolyn Fe. A woman's manicured blood-stained left hand emerges from a frosty grass-covered grave, clutching a vintage microphone.

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Eldritch Theatre presents: Carolyn Fe’s Grave Songs

PAST EVENT: Four performances only, from Fri, Mar. 28 – Sun, Mar. 30, 2025: Eldritch Theatre presents Carolyn Fe’s Grave Songs, a concert featuring dark, macabre takes on familiar favourites plus haunting original songs performed by Carolyn Fe, accompanied by Juro Kim Feliz on piano – with special guest, vocal teacher and performer Louisa Burgess-Corbett – at Red Sandcastle Theatre. All ages.

Past event: Greyed out detail of collage including text and photographs. In hand-written white font, there is violence, there is righteous violence, and there is death or: the born-again crow. The text is placed over a distorted image of a face in blues and blacks.

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There Is Violence and There is Righteous Violence and There is Death or, The Born-Again Crow

PAST EVENT: From Sun, Mar. 9 – Sat, Mar. 29, 2025: Buddies in Bad Times Theatre & Native Earth Performing Arts present the Toronto premiere of There Is Violence. Created by Métis artist Caleigh Crow, this sharply funny theatrical piece turns post-capitalism ennui on its head with a righteous fury & highlights how we gaslight marginalized individuals.

Past event: Greyed out image of five performers engage in tug-of-war-like movement with each other's arms - in a pair and a trio - as the audience watches in the background of the close, intimate space.

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Game of Life

PAST EVENT: Three days only, from Thu, Mar. 27 – Sat, Mar. 29, 2025: The Theatre Centre presents the world premiere of bluemouth inc.’s Game of Life. Based on the personal story of writer Lucy Simic, it’s a two-part exploration of mortality, the urgency of time, and the holding and letting go of relationships. This work is presented and experienced through both a live performance (ELEPHANT) and an interactive video installation (LUCY AI). For audiences 14+.

Past event: Greyed out medium close-up of a blonde woman wearing a white blouse over a black top. Her left arm is raised, elbow bent, with her wrist and forearm resting at her forehead as her hand drapes the blouse to frame the right side of her face.

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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.