Alumnae Theatre

The Alumnae Theatre, known most often as The Alum, is the oldest theatre society in Toronto, Canada still in operation. It was founded in 1919 by female graduates of the the University of Toronto who wanted to continue to participate in semi-professional theatre after graduation. Originally all performers in all roles were female, but in the 1920s male guest performers began to be invited to join the performances. Still today the leadership of the society remains entirely female.

BirdLand Theatre

BirdLand Theatre is a Toronto, Ontario-based theatre company. It was founded in 2003 by Artistic Producer Zorana Kydd. BirdLand Theatre concentrates on contemporary plays and the development of new works with focus on humanity and the human condition in the urban setting.

Bloor Cinema

The Bloor Cinema (commonly referred to as simply "The Bloor") is an independent theatre in The Annex district of downtown Toronto, Canada, located at 506 Bloor Street West, near its intersection with Bathurst Street and the TTC's Bathurst station.

The Bloor offers some of the lowest prices in Toronto for both movies and snacks. The Bloor cinema is a popular choice for many film festivals. The Bloor is a second-run theatre, meaning, it shows movies that have already been in theatres, usually before they are released on video and DVD. The theater screens classic films, art films, and cult classics. The Rocky Horror Picture Show is traditionally screened with a live cast on Halloween and the last Friday of every month. The Bloor Cinema has repeatedly been selected as the best repertoire cinema in Toronto by Eye Weekly.

Buddies in Bad Times

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is a Canadian professional theatre company. Based in Toronto, Ontario and founded in 1978 by Matt Walsh, Jerry Ciccoritti, and Sky Gilbert, Buddies in Bad Times is dedicated to "the promotion of queer theatrical expression".

Canadian Stage Company

Nationally and internationally acclaimed, The Canadian Stage Company is Canada's leading not-for-profit contemporary theatre company. Founded in 1987 with the merger of CentreStage and Toronto Free Theatre, the Company is dedicated to programming international contemporary theatre and to developing and producing landmark Canadian works. Many of the company's productions have been awarded some of the country's most prestigious literary and performing arts honours, including the Governor General's, Chalmers and Dora Mavor Moore Awards. The Company presents the richest variety of Canadian and international plays and musicals - edgy, provocative works at the Berkeley Street Theatre, universal productions with broader appeal at the Bluma Appel Theatre and a summer of Shakespeare at the CanStage TD Dream in High Park. With a long-standing commitment to education and enhancement programs for the public, nurturing theatre professionals, and developing new Canadian plays and artists, Canadian Stage plays an essential role in producing thought-provoking theatre and high quality entertainment in Toronto, one of North America's largest theatre centres.

Carlos Bulosan Theatre

The Carlos Bulosan Theatre (CBT) is a Filipino-Canadian, community-based, professional theatre in Toronto, Ontario that was founded after Carlos Bulosan. The theatre was created in 1982, originally under the name Carlos Bulosan Cultural Workshop. The current artistic director is Nadine Villasin.

Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre

The Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres are a pair of stacked theatres in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are the last surviving Edwardian stacked theatres in the world. The pair were originally built as the centrepiece of Marcus Loew's theatre chain in 1913. The building was designed by architect Thomas W. Lamb, who also built The Canon Theatre. The ornate lower theatre, then named Loew's Yonge Street Theatre was home to plays and Vaudeville productions that attracted some of the world's top talent. The upper level Winter Garden, which is decorated to resemble a forest, also housed Vaudeville productions.

Factory Theatre

Factory Theatre is a theatre in Toronto, Ontario, founded as Factory Theatre Lab in 1970 by Ken Gass and Frank Trotz. Factory was the first theatre to announce that it would exclusively produce Canadian plays, but it soon became a widely emulated policy by other theatre companies. Factory quickly became known as the home of the Canadian playwright, and is especially associated with George F. Walker, most of whose plays premiered there.

Fox Theatre (Toronto)

The Fox Theatre is a cinema in the Beaches neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario and is Canada’s oldest constantly operational movie theatre. The Fox Theatre has a single screen and shows a mixture of second-run movies, independent and foreign films, and classic favourites.

Hart House Theatre

Hart House Theatre is a 454 seat community theatre in Toronto, Ontario located on the campus of the University of Toronto in the Hart House Student Centre. Hart House Theatre is primarily a teaching theatre which stages a mixture of both student and professional productions each year.

Jumblies Theatre

Jumblies Theatre is a Community Arts Theatre Company with the over all concept of social inclusion. Jumblies Theatre creates residency projects, which typically involve over 300 community participants from each community it works in, along with 20 to 30 professional artists from a range of disciplines and cultural traditions. Toronto residency neighbourhoods to date include South Riverdale, Lawrence Heights, Davenport-Perth and Central Etobicoke.

Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People

Founded in 1966 by Susan Douglas Rubes, as Young People's Theatre (YPT). Since its 1977-78 season, operating in a renovated Heritage Building, originally a three storey stables for the horses that pulled Toronto Street Railways horsecars in the late 19th century, as well as an electrical generating plant, and a Toronto Transit Commission warehouse.

Massey Hall

Massey Hall is a venerable performing arts theatre in Toronto's Garden District. The theatre originally was designed to seat 3500 patrons but, after extensive renovations in the 1940s, now seats up to 2752.

Mirvish Productions

Company who own theatres in Toronto. Information about all their theatres including the Royal Alexandra and Princess of Wales Theatres.

The Music Hall (Toronto)

The Music Hall is a theatre on Danforth Avenue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Originally constructed as a movie theatre in 1919, the building was first known as the Allen's Danforth, after its owner the Allen Theatre Chain. Promoted as "Canada’s First Super-Suburban Photoplay Palace", the theatre opened in the midst of both a building boom along Danforth Avenue (due to the opening of the Prince Edward Viaduct) and a boom in the construction of movie theatres following the First World War. Allen's Danforth opened on August 18, 1919, and the first feature film shown was Goldwyn Pictures' Through the Wrong Door starring Madge Kennedy.

Poor Alex Theatre

Poor Alex Theatre is a theatre company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 1996, Valerie Morgan (executive producer) took the theatre began renovations and equipment upgrades. She publicized the theatre's historical past and its future goals. The Poor Alex Theatre began the Cabaret, welcoming nightly or week end performances. It became a place to house all types of events.

Princess of Wales Theatre

The Princess of Wales Theatre is a 2000-seat theatre located at 300 King Street West in the heart of Toronto's Entertainment District. The theatre's name has a triple meaning: it recalls the Princess Theatre, Toronto's first "first-class legitimate" playhouse, that once stood three blocks to the east; it honours Diana, Princess of Wales, with whose consent the theatre was so-named; and it links the building to its sister-theatre, the Royal Alexandra, one block to the east, also named - with Royal assent - for a former Princess of Wales.

Revue Cinema

The Revue Cinema is a film theatre located at 400 Roncesvalles Avenue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Built between late-1911 and early-1912, it is a designated 'heritage' site and is Toronto's oldest standing movie theatre in use for showing movies. It operated continuously as a movie theatre from its opening until June, 2006, making it the oldest continuously running movie theatre in Ontario. When news of its closure became public, a grass-roots community movement sprang up in order to save the cinema. After a great deal of effort, the movement was ultimately successful and the Revue reopened in October 2007. It is now operated by the not-for-profit Revue Film Society.

Soulpepper Theatre Company

Soulpepper Theatre Company is a Toronto, Ontario-based theatre company dedicated to presenting classic plays. Soulpepper was founded in 1998 by twelve Toronto artists who dreamed of a company that would produce lesser known theatrical classics. Soulpepper has since become an important part of Toronto's theatre scene. It often presents Canadian interpretations of works by such noted playwrights as Harold Pinter, Thornton Wilder, Samuel Beckett, Tom Stoppard and Anton Chekhov.

Stage Centre Productions

Having mounted over a hundred and twenty different productions over the past 25 years, its members are true amateurs with no financial recompense.

Stage Door

Dedicated primarily to serving all the theatres of Southwestern Ontario, plus selected stages from over 100 in Toronto. This region of Ontario is the heartland of live theatre with scores of towns and cities within a 100 mile radius hosting professional playhouses.

St. Lawrence Centre for the Performing Arts

A theatre centre featuring two auditoriums and supporting facilities to present important special events. Home of the Canadian Stage and Music Toronto. Lists current and upcoming performances and ticket information.

Tarragon Theatre

Located near near Casa Loma in Toronto, the Tarragon Theatre was founded by Bill and Jane Glassco in 1970. Bill was the Artistic Director from 1971 to 1982. In 1982, Urjo Kareda took over as Artistic Director and remained in that role until his death in December 2001. Richard Rose was appointed Artistic Director in July 2002, and Camilla Holland was appointed General Manager in July 2006.

Theatre Passe Muraille

Theatre Passe Muraille, theatre company in Toronto, Canada. One of Canada's most influential alternative theatres, Passe Muraille was founded in 1968 by director and playwright Jim Garrard. The company gained local notoriety when it was bafflingly charged with obscenity for the only mildly provocative play by American playwright Rochelle Owens, Futz (about a farmer who falls in love with his pig, but suffers the persecution of his intolerant neighbours); but it gained its national reputation in the 1970s under the Artistic Directorship of Paul Thompson, who guided the company towards a distinctive style of collective creation with plays such as The Farm Show, 1837: The Farmer's Revolt and I Love You, Baby Blue.

Theatre Scarborough

Theatre Scarborough, previously Playhouse 66, is a nonprofit theatre organization in the Scarborough region of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The organization consists of three groups: Scarborough Music Theatre, Scarborough Players and the Scarborough Theatre Guild.

Toronto Academy of Acting for Film & Television

The film acting school, Toronto Academy of Acting for Film & Television presents acting students with a challenging friendly atmosphere and the best opportunity to acquire the necessary acting skills to succeed in the film and television industry. Our Acting School has some of the finest acting teachers.

Toronto Alliance of Performing Arts

A professional arts service organization promoting and advocating on behalf of local theatre, dance and opera companies and providing services to enhance artistic, technical and administrative development.

Toronto Fringe Festival

The Toronto Fringe Festival is an annual theatre festival, featuring uncensored plays by unknown or well-known artists, taking place in the theatres of Toronto. Several productions originally mounted at the Fringe have later been remounted for larger audiences, including the Tony Award-winning musical The Drowsy Chaperone.

Toronto Theatre

A source for theatre information in greater Toronto, featuring news, interviews, photo galleries, and a directory of theatres and current productions.

Young Centre for the Performing Arts

The Young Centre for the Performing Arts is a theatre in the Distillery District in downtown Toronto, Canada. It is a brand-new theatre built into 1800s era Victorian industrial buildings. It is home to the Soulpepper Theatre Company and the theatre school at George Brown College.