posted Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Toronto’s North by Northeast (NXNE), the city’s summer new-music-discovery festival, has announced that there will be nearly 150 acts playing this year at over 20 venues between June 12 and 16, 2024. International acts from Australia, Norway, Morocco, Mexico and more join a packed lineup of Canadian and local acts. “We’re hearing magic in the […]
posted Saturday, March 9, 2024
The Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival (TOsketchfest) returns for its 19th annual showcased, running now until March 17, 2024 at both The Theatre Centre (1115 Queen St W) and Comedy Bar (945 Bloor St W). TOsketchfest’s Festival Series is a spectacular and energetic mosaic of contemporary sketch comedy, drag, storytelling, musical comedy, and clown – all […]
posted Wednesday, January 3, 2024
The 12th annual INSPIRE Awards, an annual celebration of LGBTQ+ activism and advocacy within an inspirational framework, is taking place on January 6, 2024 at the Hart House, University of Toronto. The annual event also brings together all the other honourees for the evening, including community leaders and organizations, and members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community […]
posted Thursday, June 1, 2023
Buddies Queer Pride is a series of events held at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (23 Alexander St) that showcases the LGBTQ+ community’s unstoppable spirit, featuring Toronto’s most exciting queer entertainers. Queer Pride is radical love and defiant self expression. It’s a time to celebrate everything that we are and all that we can be, […]
posted Friday, April 7, 2023
The Second City opens it’s 50th anniversary in Canada with Skyline’s The Limit, with some of the city’s best improv and comedy actors, including PHATT al, Andy Assaf, Andy Hull, Hannah Spear, Nkasi Ogbonnah, and Jillian Welsh. The show is also the first original Mainstage production to premiere at the impressive new venue at One York Street, in downtown Toronto. […]
posted Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Mae Martin’s very good month (you’ve seen that Brett Goldstein video, right?) continues with the news of their hour-long comedy special debut. The comedian is returning to Netflix with Mae Martin: SAP, launching globally on March 28. Directed by Abbi Jacobson, the new stand-up special sees Martin reflecting on a world off its axis — taking on everything from […]
posted Tuesday, February 14, 2023
There’s a queerer, fatter, ‘diasporic-ier’ documentary series about the future of comedy coming our way. Killjoy Comedy will be released on OUTtvGo on Tuesday, February 14, 2023. Killjoy Comedy is a six-part series featuring some of Canada’s most exciting new voices in comedy. Killjoy Comedy puts the microphone in front of our favourite Black, Indigenous, racialized, queer, fat, women, and […]
posted Friday, January 20, 2023
Robert Watson is an award-winning playwright, performer, fragrance aficionado extraordinaire, and producer and host of Gay AF Comedy in Toronto, amplifying the voices of Queer comedians from the many intersections of the LGBTQ+ community. Showcased as the flagship show at Buddies In Bad Times Queer Pride Festival, Gay AF Comedy was also featured as part of […]
posted Monday, November 28, 2022
The Second City Toronto has announced that its new home at One York Street will officially open November 30, 2022, with the first public performances to begin December 1. The new flagship home will be The Second City’s largest, most state-of- the-art venue since the world class comedy company first opened its doors in Canada in 1973, and will […]
posted Wednesday, September 21, 2022
This past Labour Day weekend, the We’re Funny That Way Queer Music and Comedy Festival took over the grounds of a former WWII airbase (Base 31) in Picton, Ontario, located in the picturesque wine region of Prince Edward County. Base 31 is one of several new venues in the region, and this one has only just […]
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