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Soulpepper opens 2024 season with two captivating queer productions, both developed by local Canadian writers (Toronto)

posted Saturday, January 20, 2024

by: in Queer, Theatre, Toronto

Soulpepper is launching its 2024 season with two highly anticipated productions, each telling queer stories and each written by Canadian talent. First is the Toronto premiere of Casey and Diana, written by Nick Green and directed by Andrew Kushnir, on stage for the first time in Toronto after an acclaimed sold-out run at Stratford Festival […]

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Shaw Festival announces its 2024 programming – tickets now available

posted Friday, January 5, 2024

by: in Theatre

The Shaw Festival has announced it’s program for 2024, and there are a couple of productions featuring queer talent at the helm. Damien Atkins  stars in not one, but two of next season’s productions – Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Human Heart, as well as, Candida. Also, Ryan G. Hinds directs the Charles Dickens […]

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Daniel MacIvor Double Bill at the Factory Theatre – Monster, Here Lies Henry

posted Tuesday, November 21, 2023

by: in Theatre, Toronto

Factory Theatre is presenting a unique double-bill theatre experience from acclaimed, award-winning playwright Daniel MacIvor.  Monster, directed by Soheil Parsa and featuring Karl Ang, will run from November 16-December 10, 2023 in the Studio Theatre; and Here Lies Henry, directed by Tawiah M’Carthy and featuring Damien Atkins, will run from November 23-December 17, 2023 in the Mainspace Theatre. Daniel MacIvor’s chilling one-person show, Monster, […]

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Greg’s Cookies – Sky Gilbert’s new play on stage Oct 17 to 25, 2023 (Toronto)

posted Monday, October 16, 2023

by: in Featured Events, Queer, Theatre, Toronto

Greg’s Cookie’s is a one-act satire; a queer cultural comedy that deals with the changes happening on Toronto’s Church Street.  Like all Toronto neighbourhoods, the once very gay Church Street is now under ‘condo attack.’ What was once a proud venue of gay bars, baths, and restaurants, mixed with family owned businesses of all kinds, […]

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Next Stage Theatre Festival 
- October 18-29, 2023 (Toronto)

posted Monday, October 16, 2023

by: in Theatre, Toronto

Toronto Fringe has announced the programming for the 16th Annual Next Stage Theatre Festival taking place October 18-29, 2023, with six unique pieces presenting dance, sketch comedy, a musical, and dramatic theatre, plus a dynamic selection of community programming.  Inspired by the monarch butterfly emerging from its cocoon, heralding the autumn season, Next Stage is […]

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(Everyone I Love Has) A Terrible Fate (Befall Them) – on stage Oct 10 o Nov 4, 2023 (Toronto)

posted Tuesday, October 10, 2023

by: in Theatre, Toronto

VideoCabaret in association with Crow’s Theatre, have  announced the World Premiere of Cliff Cardinal’s stage production of (Everyone I Love Has) A Terrible Fate (Befall Them) runs from October 10-November 4, 2023 at the Deanne Taylor Theatre (10 Busy Street, Toronto). Cliff Cardinal (Writer/Actor) and Karin Randoja (Dramaturg, Director) are back collaborating for a third time on A Terrible Fate, which […]

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Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Ernest” opens Village Players 50th season – Sept 8 to 30, 2023

posted Friday, September 1, 2023

by: in Theatre, Toronto

Village Players is very excited to open our 50th season with Oscar Wilde’s peerless classic, The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by Anne Harper. It runs from Friday, September 8, until Saturday, September 30. The seemingly respectable Jack and the dandy figure Algernon court Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew. Having invented a reprobate ‘brother’, Ernest, Jack has led a […]

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Stratford’s production of “Rent” stays true to the original production

posted Tuesday, August 1, 2023

by: in Queer, Theatre

Rent follows the lives a group of young East Village artists, performers and philosophers living in 1990s New York City, as they struggle through the hardships of poverty, societal discord and, the AIDS epidemic in the search for life, love and art. Created by Jonathan Larson,, and inspired by Puccini’s opera La Bohème, with a […]

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Toronto Fringe Festival offers over 100 performances of theatre, dance, comedy, musicals, and more- July 5 to 16, 2023

posted Tuesday, July 4, 2023

by: in Theatre, Toronto

Toronto Fringe Festival celebrates 35 years with over 100 shows at more than a dozen indoor venues across the city between July 5 – 16, 2023, along with a Launch Party on July 4, KidsFest and Kids Camp, and summer fun at the POSTSCRIPT Patio located outside the Transac Club at 292 Brunswick Ave. The […]

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Inside – Sky Gilbert’s very gay, two-hander dramedy takes stage at Toronto Fringe Festival -July 6 to 16 – includes Q&A

posted Monday, June 26, 2023

by: in Hamilton, Queer, Theatre

INSIDE is a very gay, two-hander ‘dramedy’; a play that is both funny and moving; thought-provoking, and purposely written to challenge an audience beyond the traditional ideas of gender and sexuality that are presented in contemporary media. It’s the story of Tom (played by Jonathan Wilson) who follows Ryan Russell (as himself) into a gay bar […]

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