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Two polaroid photos - one showing watercolour paints and the other showing people walking down a spiral staircase - and several cards with text quotes sit on top of a green background with pink ribbon. Type reads: May 10th, 1771: I am so happy my dearest, so fully absorbed in the feeling of this calm presence, that my art is suffering. I couldn't draw now, not one stroke, and yet I have never been a greater painter than in these moments. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Two polaroid photos - one showing watercolour paints and the other showing people walking down a spiral staircase - and several cards with text quotes sit on top of a green background with pink ribbon. Type reads: May 10th, 1771: I am so happy my dearest, so fully absorbed in the feeling of this calm presence, that my art is suffering. I couldn't draw now, not one stroke, and yet I have never been a greater painter than in these moments. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Performance Performance

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.

Past event: Greyed out poster image featuring illustration and text against a deep blue starry sky background. A swirling circle of animal characters, including a white bird, a pink dragon, two mice, a racoon and a baby bird. In the centre of that circle: Unbelievably Believable.

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.

Past event: Greyed out medium close-up of a woman in profile, her long blonde hair tied back with a woven gold headband, her eyes closed and head tilted back slightly as she rests a violin to her left shoulder in playing position.

Soundstreams & Music Toronto present: Invocations

PAST EVENT: One night only – Thu, Dec. 5, 2024: Soundstreams & Music Toronto present Invocations at the Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts. Violin virtuoso Lara St. John, soulful singer Aviva Chernick & other guests join the celebrated Gryphon Trio in a rich musical offering that will resonate with each of us during those vulnerable moments when we, too, seek to invoke something beyond ourselves.

Past event: Greyed out distorted image of a woman with long red hair, her face split down the centre into two mismatched halves, mouth open in a scream. In the background, a woman with long red hair tilts her head back, eyes closed in the darkness.

Honey I’m Home

PAST EVENT: From Thu, Nov. 21 – Sun, Dec. 1, 2024: Factory Theatre presents Lester Trips (Theatre)’s Honey I’m Home. When workaholic Janine uploads her consciousness into her home, a slow Wi-Fi nightmare triggers an unsettling revelation. A darkly comedic & surreal physical theatre body horror mystery, delving into the absurdity of modern life & the impact of technology on human existence. For audiences 14+.

Past event: Greyed out image of solid text in grey and yellow on a black background. In yellow font, across various lines of text: Shakespeare BASH'd presents A Staged Reading The Spanish Tragedy November 17th at the Monarch Tavern by Thomas Kyd

Play reading: The Spanish Tragedy

PAST EVENT: One day only – Sun, Nov. 17, 2024: Comedy, tragedy & ghost story combine as Shakespeare BASH’d launches their 2024/25 season with a staged reading of The Spanish Tragedy, a bloody recounting of a father’s revenge for a murdered son, by 16th playwright Thomas Kyd, at the Monarch Tavern. Mature content. For audiences 19+.

Past event: Greyed out close-up of a young person with a dark brown blunt hair cut, berettes at their temples, wearing a pink zippered top, the collar pulled up over their mouth, eyes wide in shock as they gaze to the left.

I Don’t Even Miss You

PAST EVENT: From Thu, Oct. 31 – Sun, Nov. 10, 2024: Factory Theatre presents Tiny Bear Jaws’ I Don’t Even Miss You, a new work created & performed by award-winning theatre maker Elena Belyea. A bold multidisciplinary exploration of grief, love, AI & legacy that asks how gender, identity & family can exist with no one to perceive them. For audiences 14+ (for ages 10-13, a guardian is required).