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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+.

Past event: Greyed out image of solid text in grey and purple on a black background. In purple font, across various lines of text: February 13th to February 23rd Shakespeare BASH'd presents The Merchant of Venice at The Theatre Centre by William Shakespeare

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 illustration against a pale mauve background. Call to Artists. Register by December 20th, 2024. Create a miniature artwork on a Hahnemühle bookmark, submit it for our community exhibition, and receive a unique piece of art in return! Two line-illustrated hands face each other, holding out bookmarks. One bookmark bears the word "Bookmark" and the other "Exchange". Top right corner: ARTiculations logo. Bottom right corner: Featuring Hahnemühle, including a logo.

ARTiculations: Bookmark Exchange

PAST EVENT: Make & exchange miniature artworks. ARTiculations Art Supply is hosting a community bookmark exchange: register by Fri, Dec. 20, 2024 & submit finished bookmarks by Tue, Jan. 7, 2025. Submissions will be on display from Tue, Jan. 7 – Fri, Jan. 31, 2025, celebrating the season & the launch of Hahnemühle papers at ARTiculations, with the bookmark exchange on Fri, Jan. 31.

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.

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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 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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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.

Past event: Greyed out image of a collage featuring text and photographs against a purple background. A drag performer on the right is dressed in black and has long talon-like nails, holding a cigarette holder in her right hand as she reaches out to us with her left. The other, left, is a white, ethereal figure. Text: Oraculum.

Oraculum: a world premiere

PAST EVENT: From Sun, Dec. 1 – Sat, Dec. 14, 2024: Canadian drag stars Denim and Pythia, together with Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, present the world premiere of Oraculum. Drag and the divine combine, with performance, puppetry and projection creating an otherworldly spectacle, pulling back the velvet curtain on gender and spirituality in an avant-garde freak show setting that will enthral and delight.