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Poster for A Christmas Carol, featuring gold font against a deep blue background, with white decorative flourishes above and below the title. Inside the "O" of "Carol" is a blue period illustration of an old man in a top hat holding a small boy.
Poster for A Christmas Carol, featuring gold font against a deep blue background, with white decorative flourishes above and below the title. Inside the "O" of "Carol" is a blue period illustration of an old man in a top hat holding a small boy.

A holiday classic A holiday classic

Supernatural visitors, self-discovery & redemption.

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

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+.

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

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.

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

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+.

Recurring event: Poster with black font on a blue and orange geometric background. The Assembly Theatre proudly presents Sing For Your Supper. Toronto Actors. Toronto Playwrights. A fun night of new work & new friends. Second Monday of every month(ish). 7:30pm - 10pm. The Assembly logo.

Sing For Your Supper: Toronto Actors & Playwrights

The second Monday of every month(ish): The Assembly Theatre presents Sing For Your Supper, a cold reading series offering a unique opportunity for writers to have their work read in front of an audience, with no pressure or expectations. Actors read a scene aloud for the first time, with little to no rehearsal. The general public is welcome to attend, bearing in mind that these are cold readings & not meant to be polished performances.

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 a photograph. Top left: Martha Graham Dance Company. Bottom left: Logo for Dance at TPAC. A female dancer in a deep red period dress dances, standing on her left toes, right leg lifted and arms raised in a semi-circle around her head.

Martha Graham Dance Company

PAST EVENT: Three performances only – Fri, Jan. 31 & Sat, Feb. 1, 2025: The Tennessee Performing Arts Center presents the Martha Graham Dance Company, the oldest dance company in the United States & the oldest integrated dance company. Celebrating its 100th anniversary, the Company performs three unique works inspired by the American frontier, American folk music & the techno club scene.

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.

Past event: Greyed out image of a costumed taiko drum ensemble performing on stage on drums of various sizes, with some drummers sitting on the wooden floor and others on stools or a raised platform at the back. A single drummer in a purple top and black pants sits front and centre, gazing out at us, drumsticks in both hands on either side of a medium-sized drum.

Kodo One Earth Tour 2025: Warabe

PAST EVENT: Two performances only – Sat, Jan. 25 & Sun, Jan. 26, 2025: Cal Performances hosts acclaimed taiko troupe Kodo on their One Earth Tour 2025: Warabe. Exploring the “desire to play the drums with the simple heart of a child”, the ensemble’s athletic drummers create a universe of sound & emotion through thunderous percussion & polished theatricality.

Past event: Greyed out photo collage image for Last Landscape, featuring abstract images of nature and a human being assembling something from various objects.

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 for Die Harsh A Christmas Musical, the title in red and white font over a photo of two men, a perspectival line of skyscrapers in the background. Left: A bald man in a white tank top holding a lighter regards us with narrowed eyes. Right: An auburn-haired man with a beard wearing a suit holds his right index finger to his lips, a gun fitted with a silencer in his left hand.

Die Harsh: A Christmas Musical

PAST EVENT: From Fri, Dec. 13 – Sun, Dec. 29, 2024: Join Grindstone Theatre for some action-packed musical comedy fun with Die Harsh: A Christmas Musical, written by Byron Martin and Simon Abbott, based on their favourite holiday movie. Now an annual Christmas tradition at Grindstone – this time, even bigger and better! For adults 18+.

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.

Past event: Greyed out poster for A Christmas Carol, featuring gold font against a deep blue background, with white decorative flourishes above and below the title. Inside the "O" of "Carol" is a blue period illustration of an old man in a top hat holding a small boy.

Theatre Calgary presents: A Christmas Carol

PAST EVENT: From Fri, Nov. 29 – Sun, Dec. 29, 2024: Theatre Calgary brings Charles Dickens’ holiday classic A Christmas Carol, adapted by Geoffrey Simon Brown, to life on stage at the Max Bell Theatre. On Christmas Eve, three spirts take the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge through past, present and future on a journey of self-discovery and redemption. Come and see why this production has become a Calgary holiday tradition.