With just one week until Christmas and there’s still plenty of festive activities to entertain in the picks of the week! Orphan: For it’s annual holiday extravaganza, Gateway Theatre presents Lionel Bart’s Oliver!, the award-winning musical adaptation of the classic Dickens novel, is on the Gateway Mainstage until January 4th Sugar Plum: Goh Ballet’s The Nutcracker annual production returns…
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Cinderella: A Traditional British Pantomime with a Modern Twist at Metro Theatre
Metro Theatre invites you to the King’s Christmas Ball in Cinderella: A Traditional British Panto until January 5, 2025. For its 39th year, Metro Theatre welcomes the holidays with the can’t-miss family favourite event onstage for another season of screaming, shouting, singing and scenery-chewing hi-jinx. Written and directed by the acclaimed Shel Piercy, with choreography…
Lionel Bart’s Oliver! Steals The Stage at Gateway Theatre
Consider yourself part of the family as Gateway Theatre presents Lionel Bart’s Oliver! The Musical for its annual holiday production! On the mainstage until January 4, 2025, this epic musical fills the Gateway Theatre with it’s scale. Freely adapted from Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, Lionel Bart created the long running 1960 stage musical and acclaimed…
Picks of the Week – December 11, 2024
It might take a while for the city to come down from the vibrant buzz of the Eras Tour, there’s still plenty of entertainment in the city to pick from this week. Panto: It’s a beautiful day in Trout Lake for Robin Hood and the Merry-Thems but the dastardly Sheriff has other plans—privatization! That’s the setting…
10 Upcoming Concert Events To Gift To Your Music Fan
As the city recovers from the Swift-sized hangover from the Eras Tour, and the battle for tickets, lets look ahead and see what music concert events are coming up to please the music fan on your Christmas list! 1 – CONTACT Winter Music Festival, for the 13th year Canada’s largest indoor music festival brings the…
The Gingerbread Men Are Out Of The Oven & Ready To Celebrate!
The Boys are back in town, and ready to rock around the Christmas Tree! The Gingerbread Men: A(nother) Holiday Cabaret is onstage at The Arts Club Theatre Company’s Newmount Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre until December 22nd. The happiest and the friendliest, and the merriest, the cheerfullest cabaret show of the season will leave…
Take a Journey with Firehall Arts Centre’s Reflections On Crooked Walking
Ann Mortifee’s Reflections on Crooked Walking takes audiences on a meandering journey of discovery through an alternate realm. At Firehall Arts Centre until December 22nd, this is not your typical holiday musical, but a quirky, fantasy, frolic reminiscent of the fairytales from our youth. Directed by Donna Spencer with Musical Director Bill Costin working from…