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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 featuring text & photograph. Top: A vintage typewriter with a finished typed sheet of paper sits on a small pale grey blue table, a vase of five sunflowers beside it. Bottom left: Mother's Day Event. Typed With Love, a torn piece of a typed letter beside the words. Bottom right: Featuring Poet & Writer Jessica Anne Robinson. Wednesday 7 May 2025. 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm. Toronto's First Post Office. Pre-Registration is Required and Spots are Limited. Illustrated yellow flowers emerge from the bottom right corner, with the Town of York Historical Society / Toronto's First Post Office logo in the bottom right corner.

Typed with Love: Mother’s Day Event

PAST 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+.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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+.

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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.

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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.

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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.