Iris Bahr is an award-winning writer, actor, director, producer and host of the hit X-Rae and Near Death podcasts. She has written and performed six solo shows.
Her most recent show, Stories from The Brink, premiered in Montreal and won the 2024 Frankie Storytelling Award. She is now coming to Toronto with her other show, See You Tomorrow, which was nominated for the 2024 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New play.
READ MORE
Toronto Fringe has announced its lineup of Free Programming for the 36th Annual Toronto Fringe Festival.
The festival will kick off with a launch party and parade on July 2 at the Fringe Patio, the social hub and heart of the festival located at the Tranzac. The night will begin with the annual Fringe artist parade through the Annex neighbourhood, accompanied by live music by Pan Fantasy. Throughout the evening at the Fringe Patio attendees can enjoy free ice cream by QB Snax, and sampling and swag from Partake Brewing and Saulter Street Brewery.
READ MORE
Theatre Passe Muraille is pleased to announce the return of #BeyondTO this spring, for the ‘mini festival’s’ second iteration featuring two pieces that explore the breadth of human experience and showcase perspectives rarely seen on stage.
Opening the festival on May 10th is Camille: The Story, by Audrey-Anne Bouchard (Montréal), an immersive performance designed to engage all of the senses—except sight. After his close friend Camille’s departure, Pierre navigates her absence and revisits memories that take shape through movement, smell and sound.
READ MORE
Soulpepper presents Punctuate! Theatre’s multi-Dora Award-winning production of First Métis Man Of Odesa. This celebrated production was the top touring show in the country in 2023, playing in seven cities for over 15,000 people.
Based on actual events, this captivating real-life love story is set against the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Award-winning playwright Matthew MacKenzie joins forces with his wife and celebrated Ukrainian actress Mariya Khomutova and director Lianna Makuch to tell the story of a COVID-19 courtship and share intimate perspectives on the impacts of the war in Ukraine.
READ MORE
Theatre Direct Canada presents Forward March Festival 2024 this weekend. This free, two-day festival invites children between 7- to 12-years-old to experience three brand-new plays curated and created especially for them. All plays are performed with ASL interpretation or, for plays in ASL, with voiceover in English.
READ MORE
This installment of Theatre Crawl includes some shows I have attended over the past couple of weeks along with others that are just opening and will be onstage for a few more days.
Do not sleep on these shows. I think there is something for everyone in the listings here.
READ MORE
The Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT) in partnership with Association des théâtres francophones du Canada (AFTC) celebrate today’s World Theatre Day with award-winning theatre artist Jani Lauzon’s message to Canadians.
“We got a taste of life without these moments over the last few years. We stayed home, we isolated as we were told to do. And now we are faced with a choice; be complacent or rally together to ensure that our ability to be together, learning about each other, remains an important part of our lives,” says Lauzon, award-winning theatre artist and 2024 Canadian Ambassador for World Theatre Day.
READ MORE
Returning to The Theatre Centre in Toronto, Shakespeare BASH’d is shifting gears from one of the most well-known Shakespeare plays to one of the least known or performed.
The Two Noble Kinsmen, a collaboration between playwrights Shakespeare and John Fletcher, explores many of the same themes we expect, including love, honour, and duty. But in this quirky play, those familiar topics are shown to us from new and unfamiliar perspectives, challenging expected ideas of gender, sexuality, romance, and ceremony.
READ MORE
A haunting play about three brides who share two things in common: they all married the same man, and they are all dead.
READ MORE
Hannah Levinson made her stage debut at 5 years old in The Sound of Music and at just 17 she is already a three-time Dora Nominee, and a Toronto Theatre Critics Award Winner.
This week, Hannah returns to Toronto’s Coal Mine Theatre for their production of Brendan Jacob’s Jenkins’ APPROPRIATE.
READ MORE
