The Villains Theatre

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Thank you to for having Shortcuts by at this year’s Stages Festival, and thanks to everyone who shared their alt route...
06/08/2026

Thank you to for having Shortcuts by at this year’s Stages Festival, and thanks to everyone who shared their alt routes with us! 💛💙💚 photos by

06/06/2026

Join us at Shortcuts this weekend at ’s wonderful stages festival! Watch as our team of three experts turn your Shortcuts into Maps live on site! Then enter your information to receive the compiled Shortcuts as a zine in the mail!

The Villains Theatre is looking for actors and designers for our upcoming production, The Jackson Elementary Grade 6 Dra...
05/09/2026

The Villains Theatre is looking for actors and designers for our upcoming production, The Jackson Elementary Grade 6 Drama Club presents: BLOOD AND SNOW: THE DONNER PARTY’S FATAL FORAY INTO THE SIERRA NEVADA WILDERNESS (by Dan Bray). The Halifax Fringe Festival takes place Sept 3-13. Artists must be available for daytime rehearsals Aug 17-Sept 2 (exact dates TBD). This is currently a profit-share model.
About the show: “Welcome to Jackson Elementary, where Mrs Hazel’s Grade 6 class is about to unveil the skit they’ve devised for Pioneer Week. What ensues is a pitch-black, fairly-historically-accurate tragicomedy about America’s most notorious overlanders: the doomed Donner Party. An adorable meditation on Manifest Destiny, colonialism, and the settler’s lust for expansion, even when it comes at their own expense...” Winner of the Toronto Fringe’s 2026 24-Hour Playwriting Competition! Directed by Dan Bray.
In addition to performers, we are also soliciting submissions of interest from designers and stage managers.
If we are familiar with your work as an actor, you may be considered without having to audition. Auditions will take place in mid-June (exact dates TBD). Submissions close June 1. Submit via the LinkTree or by visiting www.villainstheatre.com

Thank you to for supporting the development of Dan Bray’s newest comedy, The Pictou County Pickleball Conspiracy! A spe...
04/29/2026

Thank you to for supporting the development of Dan Bray’s newest comedy, The Pictou County Pickleball Conspiracy! A special shout out to dramaturg and all the incredible actors who shared their thoughts and talents throughout the process. Now… who wants to read it? 🏓

On World Theatre Day 2026, we are thinking of the artists and audiences around the world that are not able to safely cre...
03/30/2026

On World Theatre Day 2026, we are thinking of the artists and audiences around the world that are not able to safely create and witness theatre due to war and other forms of oppression.

Suppressing art and culture is a tool of erasure. In Canada, there is a long history of banning Indigenous culture and languages as a means of colonialism and genocide.

Article 27 of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.”

As theatre artists, we stand in solidarity with theatre artists in Palestine, where cultural production is under direct attack. In Jenin, in the West Bank, members of The Freedom Theatre’s artistic leadership were violently arrested without charge in 2023. The Freedom Theatre was forced to close its doors in early 2025, when the refugee camp where it is located was attacked and occupied by the Israeli army. In November 2025, the El-Hakawati Theater in Jerusalem was raided during a performance of “Dreams Under the Olive Tree,” a musical featuring children and teenagers, leaving audience members and performers in tears.

We know that groups that are directly complicit in Israel’s occupation and genocide in Palestine are funding theatre in Canada. These relationships contribute to the art-washing of Israel’s genocide, the censorship of Palestinian artists and those in solidarity with them, and most egregiously - the dehumanization of Palestinian people.

In conversation with Canadian theatre artists in 2026, Rawand Arqawi, Artistic Producer of Fragments Theatre in Jenin, said, “Palestinian artists do not create from outside the reality we depict; we live under occupation ourselves. We face the suppression of our freedom of expression, including arrest, harassment, and intimidation, as well as severe restrictions on movement and travel. And yet, we persist in our cultural work as an act of resilience and resistance.”

Join us!! Friday at noon, rain or shine!
03/25/2026

Join us!! Friday at noon, rain or shine!

We love a clown. Thanks to everyone who came out to/worked to Clowns in the Ground - and VIL LAB 26! Amid a month of wea...
03/14/2026

We love a clown. Thanks to everyone who came out to/worked to Clowns in the Ground - and VIL LAB 26! Amid a month of weariness and despair, you helped remind us what we’re fighting for. Onward!

03/13/2026

THE EXPERIMENTS: emerging playwrights showcase
what a great night! Thank you so much to our incredible playwrights, and to the fabulous team of readers! So much talent on that stage. I hope we’ll be seeing more of those play soon!

Tomorrow night - the never-before-seen horror comedy that started it all… Featuring a cast of terrific local performers!...
03/12/2026

Tomorrow night - the never-before-seen horror comedy that started it all… Featuring a cast of terrific local performers! 🤡🔪💀

03/12/2026

Thabks to everyone who came out to PIZZA & PITCHES tonight! Thanks for the delicious pizza and to all our pitchers and audience members ! VIL LAB 2026 is officially open!

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