Toronto Theatre Guide 2026-2027: Performing Arts and Live Theatre in Toronto

Second City’s National Touring Company is hot out of the bullpen, bringing the heat and throwing curveballs as they develop brand new sketches, songs, and improv. ...  »

In this monastery of mayhem, nothing is sacred…. The monks who reside in the hilltop monastery have always lived in total isolation. But when the Abbot ventures ...  »

How did a dead body, a fake love letter, and — of all people — Ian Fleming turn the tide of WWII? Olivier Award winner for Best New Musical ...  »

Discover your next favourite comedian at Bloomin Funyuns, presented by DGSPECIAL Productions. This Toronto stand-up series brings rising comics from the Comedy Bar comedy school together with ...  »

Older & Reckless, Moonhorse Dance Theatre’s acclaimed series celebrating and amplifying dance artists 45+ returns… a little different this time. Two weekends of performances, October 30, 31, November 1 & ...  »

Shakespeare’s Verona comes to life in bustling street scenes, fierce duels and the tenderness of Romeo and Juliet’s forbidden love as The National Ballet of ...  »

In Worlds Collide, your favourite characters get smashed together in an explosive, unpredictable show. Eight of Toronto’s funniest comedians play characters from fiction, history, pop culture ...  »

An immersive live sketch comedy show like you’ve never seen before! After being awarded Sketchiest Sketch Troupe 2026 by fellow artists and Best of the Fest 2026 at ...  »

A timely drama about currency in a time of conflict. In an isolated farmhouse during a time of war, Johanna and Max attempt to hide two persecuted ...  »

From award-winning Canadian artistic collaborators Adam Lazarus, Guillermo Verdecchia, and Ann-Marie Kerr comes Versus, a laugh-out-loud experience that can only happen in the theatre. Cake included. It’...  »

  Will the Real Sir Greg Please Stand Up offers a rollicking meta-theatrical answer to a torturous mega-problem. Comedy titans Keith Cole and David Benjamin Tomlinson compete ...  »

Comedian Godfrey will be live at The Great Hall on November 12 and 13. Godfrey is an American stand-up comedian and actor known for his sharp crowd work, animated ...  »

Experimental, Body Horror, Cringe Comedy Have you ever danced on the head of a pin? – the last text sent by the cast and crew of a failed ...  »

Spotlight at The Second City is proud to announce the lineup for their monthly sketch comedy showcase on November 13 and 14 at The Second City’s Theatre ‘73 in ...  »

Laugh together. Help somebody. DGSPECIAL Productions presents Funny For Money To Help Somebody at Comedy Bar West. Join Ava Val, Ruth Milkin and Carolyn Chalmers for a ...  »

As a girl, Emilia Lynch would cheat insomnia by slipping into neighbouring houses to spy on people as they slept, including her childhood crush Logan Goodyear. Now, ...  »

Hurricanes, Wars, and Poor Romantic Choices: For over 20 years, Melanie Marshall has run the many risks of the foreign journalist life. She kept flying into places other ...  »

DON’T MISS your chance to catch one of the biggest global names in live stand-up, as Scotland’s international comedy superstar Daniel Sloss unleashes his brilliant ...  »

Every month, come close out your month with laughs – shows feature a new lineup of some of the best up and coming comics from around the city ...  »

A dark comedy about a cure with wicked fine print. In this dark comedy from celebrated Canadian author Mona Awad, writer of the bestselling novels Bunny and ...  »

Samuel Beckett’s Endgame is the tragicomic tale of a man living with his parents and his servant in a world beyond time and place. With nowhere ...  »

The machine is warming up. Sketch-o-Matic is back with original live sketch comedy, presented by DGSPECIAL Productions. Catch the show at Comedy Bar West on November 29, January 30 ...  »

“If I were a different person, I could tell you who I really am.” HEY BIG MIKE! is a wildly theatrical musical memoir that invites audiences to ...  »

Toronto comedian Nick Beaton brings his new stand-up show Rage Bait to Yuk Yuk\\\’s Toronto on Sunday, December 6, 2026. From caring about the environment but hating environmentalists, ...  »

GAY AF CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR! is back for it’s 7th annual Holi-Gay Comedy Extra-Vaganza! Save on Advance tickets! Wanna have a lot of laughs for Christmas? We’...  »

Get ready for a night full of laughs with Abbas Wahab live at the Backroom Comedy Club! Join us on Dec 18, 2026 at 8PM & 10PM (Eastern Time) ...  »

Complicity rarely announces itself. From Tony- and Oscar-winning writer Christopher Hampton and based on the real-life testimony of Brunhilde Pomsel, secretary to Joseph Goebbels in 1940s Germany, ...  »

The legendary concert. Reimagined. In 1976, The Band took the stage for a final performance that defined an era. Joined by Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Muddy ...  »

They haven’t seen each other since the 1980s. Now two accomplished architects are reunited in a glass-walled Toronto office tower on the eve of a high-stakes ...  »

Two men. One room. Luka is new to AA. James has agreed to be his sponsor. What begins as a ritual of confession becomes a volatile struggle ...  »

One of literary history’s great characters is brought to new life by Erin Shields, known for her contemporary interpretations of classical texts. Jane Eyre explores a ...  »

A contemporary dance docu-drama. A love letter to our enemies. A transfeminist fantasia. A bad idea and a good time. Come into the mansion. Nothing bad could ...  »

“A good lawyer just tells the best version of their client’s story.” – Tessa Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister who has worked her way up from ...  »

Never before seen on the COC mainstage, The Turn of the Screw signals the arrival of one of the most chilling and psychologically charged operas of the 20...  »

“When I go to the biggest bingo in the world, in Toronto, I will win. For sure I will win.” On the Wasaychigan Hill Reserve, seven Ojibway ...  »

The original genre-defying murder mystery, Agatha Christie’s THE MOUSETRAP has kept the world asking whodunnit for nearly 75 years. When news of a shocking murder rocks London, ...  »

William is an expert on his Persian wife Tara: her mother, her culture, her turn-ons. Yet their marriage is collapsing fast. So he plans one last BIG ...  »

Set over one explosive week, The Day It All Went South is a darkly funny and emotionally charged drama about marriage, motherhood and the inescapable challenge of ...  »

The beloved Canadian story of buried family secrets. Ann-Marie MacDonald’s epic novel of family, faith, and buried history comes to the stage in Hannah Moscovitch and ...  »

Some family secrets take more than one night to unravel. Continue the journey of Ann-Marie MacDonald’s epic Canadian novel of family, faith, and buried history with ...  »

Few musicals feel as essential to revisit—or as urgent to re-examine—as Cabaret. Set in Berlin as the shadows of extremism lengthen, Cabaret invites us into ...  »

Directed by Frank Cox-O’Connell “EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE I LIKE TO TALK TO SOMEBODY, REALLY TALK.” Peter sits on a quiet park bench on a ...  »

Stravinsky transformed the landscape of 20th-century classical music and set ballet on a new course for the modern era. His revolutionary compositions include iconic collaborations with Diaghilev’...  »

The play is based on the novel by Mark Haddon. Set in London and Swindon, UK, the story concerns 15-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone, a mathematical genius ...  »

A prophecy powerful enough to turn brother against brother. Gbolahan Obisesan delivers an award-winning adaptation of Chigozie Obioma’s celebrated novel following two Nigerian brothers who relive ...  »

In this new comedy from Morris Panych, we meet Alma, a seasoned career shoplifter who prefers the five-finger discount over a seniors’ day deal. But it’s ...  »

On Halloween, six people have come in secret to play a murder mystery game at a rustic island cottage. Invited by writer Charles Prince, they appear set ...  »

A real estate agent sells soulless mansions to rich heterosexuals, purging the public of dark corners while pursuing his own oblivion on the apps, kept awake by ...  »

Grandmother’s a butcher and to her disappointment, her daughter’s a vegetarian. But to her satisfaction, her granddaughter killed her first chicken at the age of ...  »

A new medical technology tests the impossible: accurately predicting when a person will die. When it is quietly introduced into a hospice, Dr. Froese, a leading palliative ...  »

The Erik Bruhn Festival of Emerging Artists reimagines the former Erik Bruhn Prize as a showcase rather than a competition, reflecting Artistic Director Hope Muir’s ambition ...  »

“I am not interested in writing pretty plays. I am interested in writing true ones.” — Sophie Treadwell From the outside, Helen Jones has a happy marriage—until ...  »

In Raised by Women, Métis playwright and performer Keith Barker delivers an intimate, stand-up-inspired solo show that’s as funny as it is searching. With sharp ...  »