Theatre

Performance created by Toronto-based company Mammalian Diving Reflex takes place outdoors in French and English

The rock musical’s creator and composer, Jonathan Larson, didn’t live to see its enduring success

Faye’s Room by disability-identified playwright Alex K. Masse marks company’s first mainstage production since the rebrand

Anchored by a knockout Rafiki and a parade of still-magical animal puppets, the Broadway Across Canada touring show proves this musical is still king of the jungle

Frances Končan’s historical satire follows three women as they share their views on life, love, and Louis Riel

Titles include Jeff Ho’s antigone: 方, Hannah Moscovitch’s Little One, and Francis Dowlatabadi’s My Roommate Ahriman

At the Waterfront, actors embrace mishaps while set pieces are programmed to go awry on cue

Black Box Theatre Co. presents the production that has garnered wide acclaim since its 2012 premiere in London

More offerings include Hiromoto Ida’s Vacant Lot and Between Breaths, a play about a whale conservationist

In the 2024-25 Korea-Canada Year of Cultural Exchanges, production at BlueShore at CapU sings and speaks in many languages about historical turning point

Heartfelt story portrays struggling artists living under the shadow of the HIV/AIDS crisis in New York

Local creative team, including playwright-actor Hiro Kanagawa, drives ambitious production about Japanese imternment

This installment of salon series includes Anosh Irani’s Bombay Black, Munish Sharma’s Mrs. Singh and Me, and NYC–set period piece The Heiress

Krystle Dos Santos and crew revive hits by Aretha Franklin, the Supremes, and more, while interweaving the stories behind the music

As if haunted by centuries of hits and flops, the three figures in this Bard on the Beach comedy take jabs at the self-consciousness and shaky footing of being an actor

Lineup also includes an offering from South Korea, an adaptation of The Paper Bag Princess, and a family-friendly drag show

Poetic flourishes and strong characterizations bring compelling charge to imagined story of Shakespeare and the woman who inspired and challenged him

Comedy with Charlie Demers and Jacob Samuel and a remount of Wakey, Wakey are some of the offerings onstage before renovations and a time of internal review in 2026

More mainstage offerings include love story Gertrude & Alice, video-game-style production 2021, and solo show Danceboy

Facilitated conversations with directors take place before matinee showings of four Bard on the Beach productions this season

Core elements of this audience favourite remain in a production full of touches that feel unmistakably contemporary

Vancouver’s Neworld Theatre is producing and administering nationwide initiative in search of experienced arts writers who are IBPOC or face other barriers

This year’s event, on from August 7 to 17, also features a standup comedy show by YouTube star Manpreet Singh and all-ages dance workshops

Young cast fuels this new production of the Roald Dahl classic with over-the-top silliness and sheer song-and-dance talent

New production of Jessica B. Hill’s witty play reclaims the lost history of poet Emilia Bassano

From revealing performances to spot-on costumes and sets, this new production conjures all the atmosphere of the play’s old London home

Western Gold Theatre fundraiser features the U.K.–born Canadian artist in an intimate, informal setting

In Bard on the Beach’s new production, retro pastels and power suits map surprisingly well onto the chaos of Shakespeare’s sometimes troublesome original

Neworld Theatre in collaboration and SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts humanizes the issue by drawing on real, lived memories of fires, floods, and heat waves

With audiences sworn to secrecy over a decades-long run, the mystery at the heart of author’s most famous whodunit endures