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Canadian Stage
Culture
Inside the delightfully absurd puppet studio of Ronnie Burkett
How many puppeteers out there can say they’ve received the Order of Canada?
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Culture
What to see, do, hear and read in Toronto this January
Including a play that puts marriage on blast and a new shoegaze band for old heads
Culture
What to see, do, read and hear in Toronto this August
Including an open-air performance of a doomed romance and a hotly anticipated reunion tour
Culture
“Our relationship frustrations get a healthy workout onstage”: Paul Gross and Martha Burns on their new production of
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Real-life husband and wife Paul Gross and Martha Burns play a volatile married couple in Canadian Stage’s new production of the 1962 classic
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Culture
Grimes’ album release show, a free Drake kitchen party and seven other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of November 16
Culture
See Kanye at the Pan Am closing ceremonies, go to the WayHome festival and eight other things to do this week
Watch the Pan Am Games’ controversial closing ceremony Despite a petition protesting his performance, Kanye West will close out...
Culture
A Foo Fighters concert, Shakespeare in High Park and seven other things to do this week
Hang out with a troupe of dancing newsboys Based on a real-life 19th-century newsboy strike, Disney’s blockbuster musical...
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Culture
Rock out with Metz, lose yourself in the Contact Photography Festival and eight other things to do this week
Gorge on a smorgasbord of photographic eye candy Pretty much every gallery in Toronto is surrendering to the swell of the...
Culture
Attend a pancake party, see Kacey Musgraves and eight other things to do this week
Check out a South African puppet show for grown-ups The latest feat from Canadian Stage is a three-week extravaganza of South...
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Venus in Fur,
Canadian Stage’s seductive and sophisticated hit
Canadian Stage’ s production of Venus in Fur, the darkly sexy comedy from American playwright David Ives, leaves no space for...
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Food & Drink
Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of July 11–13
In this edition of The Weekender, a night market, outdoor theatre and three other things to do in Toronto this weekend. Night it...
Culture
Must-See: Canadian Stage’s revamped version of the Robert Lepage hallucinatory classic, Needles and Opium
Needles and Opium, an early Robert Lepage triumph, has been making heads spin for decades. Here, a look at the play’s...
City News
Spotlight: former teen heartthrob Jason Priestley stars in David Mamet’s theatrical scorcher Race
Jason Priestley spent the ’90s playing the unimpeachably noble high schooler Brandon Walsh on the ur–teen drama Beverly...
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City News
Party Pages: Jason Priestley searches for poutine at Canadian Stage’s Theatre Ball: Happy 25!
March 7, The Carlu. “If there’s poutine, I’m in,” intimated the former Beverly Hills 90210 star as he weaved around...
Culture
Who needs Ryan Gosling when we’ve got Gordon Pinsent?
That’s right, Goz. We’ve spent more time pining for you than we’d like to admit —but there’s a new man in our lives (at...
Today in Toronto: The Game of Love and Chance
The Game of Love and Chance Canadian Stage’s artistic director, Matthew Jocelyn, reaches back to the days of Marivaux and...
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City News
The theatre community (and its wealthy patrons) prove they can party hard at Canadian Stage’s Theatre Ball
The city’s flossiest shelled out $7,500 to $10,000 per table at the sold-out 25th annual Canadian Stage Theatre Ball Thursday...
City News
How Matthew Jocelyn tried to revive Canadian Stage but instead ended up scaring audiences away
As the crowd settled in for an early June performance of Édouard Lock’s Untitled at the Bluma Appel Theatre, Matthew...
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The Weekender: Boyz II Men, La La La Human Steps and six other events on our to-do list
1. LA LA LA HUMAN STEPS This Québécois contemporary dance troupe, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, is known...
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The Weekender: Cinderella, Christy Turlington Burns and six other events on our to-do list
1. FESTIVAL OF IDEAS AND CREATION ( ) CanStage’s annual Festival of Ideas and Creation is all about supporting artists and...
Real Estate News
The Sell: finding a homebuyer who will honour an Annex classic, not obliterate it
Two sisters search for the right buyer for their parents’ place, a 19th-century Annex coach house with a mid-century modern...
Culture
Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad to get Toronto staging in 2012
After successful productions in Ottawa and Calgary, Margaret Atwood ’s The Penelopiad will finally be mounted in the first lady...
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Atom Egoyan to direct play for Canadian Stage in 2012
The Canadian Stage Company recently announced its 2011–2012 season, with a surprising addition to its productions: Toronto...
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The one thing you should see this week
This week’s pick: Studies in Motion West Coast dance star Crystal Pite is giving Toronto audiences another dose of her wickedly...
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Summer Camp Guide
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
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Toronto Life
’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
Big Stories
Deep Dives
Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
Deep Dives
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026
This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar
Deep Dives
Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team
After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype
Deep Dives
Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with
SNL
rookie Veronika Slowikowska
Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of
Saturday Night Live
in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it
Deep Dives
Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer
The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line
Deep Dives
The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?
We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout
Deep Dives
My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press
My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell
Deep Dives
Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin
Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe
Deep Dives
Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?
Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI
It’s hard out here for a 20-something
Deep Dives
The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market
Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises
Deep Dives
Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI
Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband
When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
Deep Dives
Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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