Theater entertainment in Toronto
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CanStage
Contemporary CanStage produces top-rated Canadian and international plays by the likes of David Mamet and Tony Kushner. Plays are staged at its own Berkeley Street Theatre, and the larger St Lawrence Centre for the Arts. CanStage also runs Dream in High Park, wonderful mid-summer productions of Shakespeare under the stars in High Park. Show up early and bring a blanket.
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Young Centre for Performing Arts
The $14 million Young Centre houses four separate performance spaces, utilized by theatrical tenants including Soul Pepper (www.soulpepper.ca), Moonhorse Dance Theatre (www.danceumbrella.net/clients_moonhorse.htm) and George Brown Theatre Co (www.georgebrown.ca/theatre). There’s an on-site bookshop and bar too.
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Factory Theatre
This innovative theater company – ‘Home of the Canadian Playwright’ – has been busy for 35 years. The independent SummerWorks Theatre Festival stages plays at the Factory Theatre too, as do performers from the Toronto Fringe Festival. Sunday matinees are ‘Pay What You Can.’
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Theatre Passe Muraille
Theatre Passe Muraille is a theater in the old Nasmith’s Bakery & Stables. Since the 1960s, it has focused on radical new plays with contemporary Canadian themes. Postperformance chats with cast and producers occur often. Saturday matinees are ‘Pay What You Can.’
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Princess of Wales Theatre
Almost next door to the Royal Alex, POW theater is a 200-seat playhouse showing big-ticket items such as Miss Saigon and Rock of Ages.
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Canon Theatre
The Canon, a 1920s-era Pantages vaudeville hall, is a hot ticket for musical extravaganzas.
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