Kensington Market & Chinatown
Well past its 70th birthday, the legendary Horseshoe still plays a crucial role in the development of local indie rock. This place oozes a history of good…
Must-see entertainment in Ontario
Old Town, Corktown & Distillery District
Swing dancers, jazz singers and blues crooners call this cool, candlelit basement lounge home, and it's hosted its fair share of musical greats over the…
Southwestern Ontario
Forty years young, Bookshelf is the pacemaker of Guelph's cultural heartbeat, a combination bookstore, cinema, bar and music venue. Swing by to read the…
Southwestern Ontario
A buzzing arts center in the heart of downtown London. Programming centers on emerging and developing artists; a black box theater and gallery on the 1st…
Kensington Market & Chinatown
The Rex has risen from its pugilistic, blue-collar past to become an outstanding jazz and blues venue. Over a dozen Dixieland, experimental and other…
Toronto
The 13-time Stanley Cup–winning Maple Leafs slap the puck around Scotiabank Arena. Every game sells out with fiery fans – hockey is intrinsic to the…
Entertainment & Financial Districts
Running for decades, Second City has nightly improv and sketch-comedy shows that'll have you laughing all night long. Big-name comedians such as Catherine…
Entertainment & Financial Districts
Headquarters of the Toronto International Film Festival, this resplendent cinema complex is the hub of all the action when the festival's in town…
Toronto
This basement tavern rocks, with wooden-barrel stools and a small stage where you can catch some twang. You'll hear mostly country and blues, plus a bit…
Entertainment & Financial Districts
One of the best small venues in town – its acoustics are tops – Adelaide Hall attracts both big-name and up-and-coming acts. On other nights, DJs and…
Toronto
This art deco theater with a two-tiered balcony screens a wonderfully varied schedule of new releases, art-house flicks, shorts, documentaries and vintage…
Southwestern Ontario
Once a 19th century hotel, today the Gorge is Canada's longest continuously operating repertory movie theater. Seats fully recline, popcorn is prepped in…
Ottawa
The capital's premier performing arts complex delivers opera, drama, Broadway shows, and performances by its resident symphony orchestra. The grand…
Thousand Islands
This delightful waterfront theater has presented a quality lineup of mainly light summer plays and musicals since 1982.
Entertainment & Financial Districts
The Scotiabank Arena is home to the 13-time Stanley Cup–winning Toronto Maple Leafs and the Toronto Raptors, the only Canadian team in the NBA. It also…
Toronto
Toronto's Major League Baseball team (a Toronto icon and a source of pride) plays at the Rogers Centre – it's the only MLB franchise based outside the USA…
Entertainment & Financial Districts
The 'Royal Alex,' as she is sometimes affectionately known, is one of the more impressive theaters in the city and home to splashy Broadway musicals…
Toronto
The Toronto Argonauts crack their Canadian Football League (CFL) helmets at BMO Field at Exhibition Place, off Lake Shore Blvd W. Founded in 1873, the …
Bruce Peninsula
This art center is home to Canada's foremost aboriginal theater company, Debajehmujig Theatre Group, whose name appropriately means 'storytellers.' Its…
Toronto
Founded in 1979, Buddies is the world's oldest queer theater company. Its mission: to develop and produce queer voices and stories on stage. Check the…
Toronto
The 'Raps,' the NBA’s only Canadian team, have made the playoffs 11 times since they joined the league in 1995, but they never reached the finals…until…
Old Town, Corktown & Distillery District
Contemporary CanStage produces top-rated Canadian and international plays by the likes of David Mamet and Tony Kushner from its own Berkeley Street…
Toronto
Formerly the Canon, the Ed Mirvish Theatre was renamed in 2011 in honor of the late Ed Mirvish, a well-loved Toronto businessman, philanthropist and…
Toronto
Shakespeare in High Park is one of Canada's longest-running outdoor theater events, having started in 1982. Guests sit on grassy levels by the…
Entertainment & Financial Districts
Canada's national opera company has been warbling its phenomenal pipes for over 50 years. Tickets sell out fast, though standing-room tickets are…
Ottawa
Friendly and funky, if a little grimy in the thick of a busy weekend, Irene's is the three-decade-old spiritual home for the Glebe neighborhood's artists…
Old Town, Corktown & Distillery District
This theater company has a repertoire ranging from new works to classics, most focused on the diversity of Canada's voices and identities. Youth-outreach…
Ottawa
Ottawa is a hard-core hockey town. It’s worth getting tickets to a game even if you’re not into hockey – the ballistic fans put on a show of their own…
Entertainment & Financial Districts
This innovative theater company – 'Home of the Canadian Playwright' – has been busy since 1970 producing exclusively Canadian plays. Stay for the talk…
Niagara Falls
On summer weekend nights, check out local talent during free classic-rock concerts at Queen Victoria Park, facing the American Falls. The music starts at…
Toronto
Way north on Yonge St, the TCA is home to four stages, including the 1036-seat George Weston Recital Hall, where the Toronto Symphony Orchestra performs…
Entertainment & Financial Districts
The National Ballet of Canada is known for its full-length classical works and sumptuous sets, made more beautiful by the theater itself. Come early for…
Toronto
Legendary Lee's Palace has set the stage over the years for Dinosaur Jr, the Smashing Pumpkins and Queens of the Stone Age. Kurt Cobain started an…
East Toronto & Rosedale
The old Opera House is an early-1900s vaudeville hall. Over the years, rockers like the Black Crowes, Rage Against the Machine, Eminem, Nirvana and Beck…
Kingston
Once an opera house, then a movie theater, the Grand is now the city's premier venue for theater, concerts and comedy. It has undergone extensive…
Entertainment & Financial Districts
A range of classics, Cole Porter–era pops and new music from around the world is presented by the TSO at Jello-mold-like Roy Thomson Hall (sometimes also…
Southwestern Ontario
James St N does artsy well and Zyla's is intimate enough for a real sense of the Hamilton vibe. Comedians and indie bands perform at beer-splashing…
Kensington Market & Chinatown
Since the 1960s the Theatre Passe Muraille, in the old Nasmith’s Bakery & Stables, has focused on radical new plays with contemporary Canadian themes…
Eastern Ontario
Built in 1858 as Brockville's town hall, what is now the arts center has survived one fire and several incarnations. Today the theater hosts performers…
Old Town, Corktown & Distillery District
Catch a show at this innovative theater that has delivered enlightening children's plays and drama camps for over 50 years. Despite the common…
