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Illustrated banner image for Guild Festival Theatre's 2024 Summer Season, featuring three event posters. Left: Family Fest 2024, featuring a black silhouette of a family looking on at a series of music and performance symbols in blue circles. Centre: Three Men on a Bike, featuring silhouetted figures of three men wearing boater hats riding a bicycle, with a dog looking on from the top right corner. Right: Isle of Demons by Robert Chafe. A woman stands at the edge of a cliff overlooking a body of water to the right, with a tree-covered island in the background.
Grid image for Guild Festival Theatre's 2024 Summer Season, featuring three event posters. Top left: Family Fest 2024, featuring a black silhouette of a family looking on at a series of music and performance symbols in blue circles. Top right: Three Men on a Bike, featuring silhouetted figures of three men wearing boater hats riding a bicycle, with a dog looking on from the top right corner. Bottom left: Isle of Demons by Robert Chafe. A woman stands at the edge of a cliff overlooking a body of water to the right, with a tree-covered island in the background. Bottom right: Guild Festival Theatre 2024 logo.

Live performances Live performances

in an outdoor Greek theatre: a Scarborough summer tradition.

Past event: Greyed out image featuring text and photographs. Comedy Is Art. October 22 - 26, 2-24. tickets on sale now! A collage of dozens of diverse comedy artists against a funky pink and light blue background.

Comedy is Art. Festival 2024

PAST EVENT: Five nights only, from Tue, Oct. 22 – Sat, Oct. 26, 2024: The Theatre Centre presents its annual Comedy is Art. Festival. This year’s programming includes nine shows & 50+ artists from all over, featuring stand-up & sketch comedy, improv, music + free industry panels & an improv class. For audiences 18+, unless otherwise noted. Mature content.

Past event: Greyed out poster image for INTERSTELLAR 10 Organ Concert Tour, featuring text against a photo of the planet Saturn, which has a sandy marble finish surrounded by rings, against a starry black sky. Roger Sayer the Interstellar organist plays hits from the movie soundtrack and more! Toronto, October 19, 2024. Metropolitan United Church.

INTERSTELLAR 10 Organ Concert Tour

PAST EVENT: One night only - Sat, Oct. 19, 2024: The Royal Canadian College of Organists presents the INTERSTELLAR 10 Organ Concert Tour at Metropolitan United Church, featuring Roger Sayer, organ soloist on the Academy Award-nominated soundtrack to Christopher Nolan's sci-fi blockbuster Interstellar. For music enthusiasts & fans of epic space-themed film scores.

Past event: Greyed out image of a collage featuring torn pieces of photographs and text. At the far right, a portrait of a young man in purples and pinks. The other three images of a man are distorted and nightmarish. Centre, in white script font: roberto zucco.

Buddies in Bad Times presents: Roberto Zucco

PAST EVENT: From Sun, Sep. 15 – Sat, Oct. 5, 2024: Buddies in Bad Times Theatre brings the suspense of film noir to the stage, opening its 2024/25 season with Bernard-Marie Koltès’ Roberto Zucco, translated by Martin Crimp & directed by Artistic Director ted witzel. In 1980s Europe, a charming antihero struggles with the urge to kill. For audiences 16+.

Past event: Greyed out graphic image for Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2024. September 5-29. White font against a pink and mauve pattern of rectangles.

Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2024

PAST EVENT: From Thu, Sep. 5 – Sun, Sep. 29, 2024: The Philadelphia Fringe returns with its annual festival of theatre & performance works. The Festival features in-person & digital events, with 1,000+ performances at 105 venues from international, national & local artists, including comedy, drama, cabaret, storytelling, theatre for young audiences, circus performance, dance & more.

Past event: Greyed out image of a photo and text on a black background, with the title Mukashi, Mukashi (Once upon a time) in white and black font within a red circle. To the bottom right is a photo of a woman, costumed as a white crane, in a white flowing dress with wing-like sleeves and a white origami crane atop her head.

CORPUS presents: Mukashi, Mukashi

PAST EVENTS: From Tue, Sep. 24 – Sun, Sep. 29, 2024: CORPUS presents the North American premiere of Mukashi, Mukashi (Once upon a time) at The Theatre Centre. Speaking to children & adults alike, the story blends the poetic & intriguing world of Japanese folk tales with the dark & comedic undertones of Western fairy tales – where Wolf meets Crane with a playful twist & cross-cultural sensibility. Presented in English & Japanese with English surtitles. For audiences age 6+.

Past event: Greyed out image of a 1920s art deco-style illustration of a man and woman, from the shoulders up, facing each other in profile, in an intimate moment. The man wears a white tie and black jacket, and has a streak of white along the temple of his black hair. The woman has red and blonde streaked hair, with a flower in it and she holds a long cigarette holder, the smoke curling off to the left.

Many Happy Returns: Immersive & Interactive Show

PAST EVENT: Every Wednesday night until Sep. 25, 2024: Many Happy Returns, a new 90-minute group-based immersive & interactive experience set during New Year’s Eve 1924, running at Coffee Oysters Champagne. This unique performance event will appeal to anyone who loves the décor, clothing, slang & tomfoolery of the roaring 20s, plus scavenger hunts! For audiences 16+.

Past event: Greyed out graphic image for Orlando Out Fest, featuring a psychedelic multi-coloured heart with the word "Out" in white inside it and the words "Orlando" at the top left and "Fest" in lavender at the bottom right of it.

Orlando Out Fest 2024

PAST EVENT: From Fri, Sep. 20 – Sun, Sep. 22, 2024: The Orlando Fringe presents its inaugural Orlando Out Fest, a curated performance festival celebrating exclusively LGBTQIA stories, artists & history. Audiences can get a taste of the festival lineup with a preview teaser show on Thu, Sep. 19, followed by seven shows performed over three days, featuring cabaret, drag, improv, a variety show, drama & theatre for young audiences, including puppets.

Past event: Greyed out blurred image featuring black text and a photograph against a white background. Five dancers wearing t-shirts of various colours and blue jeans, captured side by side in a variety of movements, their bodies reflected on the shiny floor they move on. Top: All That Is Between. A contemporary dance work. Bottom: The power of collective identity, and collective isolation, manifested in wordless stories within bodies and what lies within our container.

Tiger Princess Dance Projects: All That Is Between

PAST EVENT: Four performances only: Thu, Sep. 12 – Sat, Sep. 14, 2024: tiger princess dance projects presents All That Is Between at Aki Studio. Created by the multi-award-winning Yvonne Ng & featuring a remarkable ensemble of Canadian dancers, it’s an evocative dance piece that explores the intricate dynamics of collective identity & the experience of isolation. All ages.

Past event: Greyed out image containing a black & white photo on an illustrated blue background of a woman with long blonde hair, standing sideways and looking over her shoulder at us. A pointed yellow horizontal zigzag line crisscrosses around her, becoming red at the top.

The Great Fire: An Immersive Audio Drama Experience

PAST EVENT: Thu, Jul. 25 - Sat, Sep. 14, 2024: Necessary Angel Theatre Company presents The Great Fire as part of the Stratford Festival’s Forum Performances at the Tom Patterson Theatre. Written by Roland Schimmelpfennig & translated by David Tushingham, audiences will experience this five-part audio drama in an intimate & immersive environment. Limited seating of 12 for each performance. For audiences 16+.

Past event: Greyed out illustrated image for RAP SHEETS Hip Hop And R&B Trivia, with bold black text inside a white comic book explosion bubble with black outline against a yellow and orange striated background. Monday Sept. 9 2024. The Theatre Centre Cafe & Bar. 1115 Queen St. W. Doors: 7PM. Game Time: 8PM. $10

RAP SHEETS: Hip Hop & R&B Trivia Night

PAST EVENT: One night only – Mon, Sep. 9, 2024: The Theatre Centre hosts RAP SHEETS: Hip Hop & R&B Trivia Night. Come solo or create a duet or crew of up to five members and get ready to show off your skills. This event is for hip hop and R&B enthusiasts interested in testing their knowledge of these genres in a fun, accessible and inclusive trivia format! For adults 18+.

Past event: Greyed out illustrated image for West End Phoenix Future Tense, featuring the Moon (left), with the Earth (right) shaded in yellow and black, overlapping with other planet-like forms between and below them against a blue black star-filled sky. Future Tense in yellow font on a black rectangle at the bottom.

West End Phoenix: Future Tense Benefit Concert

PAST EVENT: One night only - Sat, Sep. 7, 2024: Support local journalism & join West End Phoenix at its Future Tense benefit concert in the courtyard at 1655 Dupont St. Hosted by Ron MacLean & Dave Bidini, this outdoor event features a full program of performances led by the Electro Phoenix band, plus dozens of guest music artists. All ages.

Past event: Greyed out version of the grid image for Guild Festival Theatre's 2024 Summer Season, featuring three event posters. Top left: Family Fest 2024, featuring a black silhouette of a family looking on at a series of music and performance symbols in blue circles. Top right: Three Men on a Bike, featuring silhouetted figures of three men wearing boater hats riding a bicycle, with a dog looking on from the top right corner. Bottom left: Isle of Demons by Robert Chafe. A woman stands at the edge of a cliff overlooking a body of water to the right, with a tree-covered island in the background. Bottom right: Guild Festival Theatre 2024 logo.

Guild Festival Theatre 2024 Season

PAST EVENT: From Wed, Jul. 10 - Sun, Aug. 25, 2024: Guild Festival Theatre’s 2024 summer season is set to take you on an adventure, from a mini-festival of family fun, to a hilariously ill-fated cycling trip through Germany, to the Toronto premiere of a true story of survival in the Canadian wilderness in 1500s! Programming for kids & adults.