The Theatre Centre

The Theatre Centre Non-profit live arts incubator, café & community hub. We provide artists with infrastructure and resources to make their art – from the idea to production.

The Theatre Centre develops, presents and produces live performance through collaboration between artists, staff and audience. The Theatre Centre is committed to new work and new ways of working. We are a public space – open and accessible to the people of our community – where citizens can imagine, debate, celebrate, protest, unite, and be responsible for inventing the future.

Toronto! Join us and our neighbours from West Queen West for The Theatre Centre’s Community BBQ + Hangout 🎉 This outdoor...
06/16/2026

Toronto! Join us and our neighbours from West Queen West for The Theatre Centre’s Community BBQ + Hangout 🎉 This outdoor event will feature FREE hot dogs and hamburgers* (while supplies last), live music, and more!
*Vegetarian and gf options will be available 🌭

Community Meals are a long-standing tradition in The Theatre Centre community. Let’s be honest, not much happens at The Theatre Centre without food. Our 2024 Community BBQ was a huge success: we planned for 300 guests and ended up feeding 800, and we’re all set to welcome even more people this summer!

🎈Friday, July 17 from 5 – 8PM
🐶 FREE and Family Friendly (and yes, puppies are welcome)!
RSVP here: https://theatrecentre.org/event/community-bbq-block-party/

Made possible through the City of Toronto’s ‘Community Celebration Support Fund’ and in part by the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

Huge news! Our old accessibility lift is ready for retirement and we’re excited to announce that we’ll be installing a n...
06/12/2026

Huge news! Our old accessibility lift is ready for retirement and we’re excited to announce that we’ll be installing a new lift this summer! This update helps us continue to steward the resource of our forever home, improving accessibility for the long-term. Our second floor will only be accessible using the stairs throughout the summer as the work is being done (more updates TBA).

We’re doing what we can to make this beautiful heritage building as available to our communities as possible. You may have already noticed the new push buttons we’ve installed on our accessible washrooms. All of these changes are part of broader accessibility project to upgrade our facility. This vital work is made possible thanks to support from the Government of Canada and the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

Please note that on Monday, June 22, The Theatre Centre Café/Bar will be closed for the removal of our existing lift.

Toronto! Join us and our neighbours from West Queen West for The Theatre Centre’s Community BBQ + Hangout 🎉 This outdoor...
06/08/2026

Toronto! Join us and our neighbours from West Queen West for The Theatre Centre’s Community BBQ + Hangout 🎉 This outdoor event will feature FREE hot dogs and hamburgers* (while supplies last), live music, and more!
*Vegetarian and gf options will be available 🌭

Community Meals are a long-standing tradition in The Theatre Centre community. Let’s be honest, not much happens at The Theatre Centre without food. Our 2024 Community BBQ was a huge success: we planned for 300 guests and ended up feeding 800, and we’re all set to welcome even more people this summer!

🎈Friday, July 17 from 5 – 8PM
🐶 FREE and Family Friendly (and yes, puppies are welcome)!
🔗 RSVP now by heading to the link in our bio.

Made possible through the City of Toronto’s ‘Community Celebration Support Fund’ and in part by the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

A huge congratulations to Stephon Smith! This is a well-deserved Dora Award nomination for his work on word! sound! powa...
06/01/2026

A huge congratulations to Stephon Smith! This is a well-deserved Dora Award nomination for his work on word! sound! powah!, part of the Sankofa Trilogy by d’bi young anitafrika, a Watah Theatre Production (our company in residence!).

Congratulations to the whole team of The Sankofa Triology! Swipe through for some throwback photos of the production.

Here’s what’s on in the building this June!📺 June 1st, Screen, Sketch, Share with Jim Libiran, part of ArtWorksTO, in th...
06/01/2026

Here’s what’s on in the building this June!

📺 June 1st, Screen, Sketch, Share with Jim Libiran, part of ArtWorksTO, in the Café/Bar.

🎵 June 2nd, ASTRAL RIDDIMS, on the Green Roof and Patio

🏠 June 3rd — 6th, The House of Special Purpose - a dreamy, fragmented musical about the Romanov family’s reign and brutal ex*****on during the Russian Revolution.

🌦️ June 4th — 6th, Why Not Theatre presents THE CLIMATE COMMISSIONS - three short plays exploring the climate crisis.

🎤 June 8, The Music of Kevin Wong: A Fringe Fundraiser for A MOMENT FOR FRAYED NERVES.

⚡️ June 9, Spark Night presented by Generator!

🌈 June 11th, TEA4TEA - an all trans & non-binary comedy show in the Café/Bar!

🌼 June 18th — 20th, Sweet Ephemera, presented by DanceWorks - a double bill exploring q***r intimacies of diasporic ritual.

To learn more and buy tickets click here https://theatrecentre.org/whats-on/ 💫

The LAST SESSION of Screen, Sketch, and Share with Jim Libiran is this upcoming Monday, June 1 at 7pm! We’ll be revisiti...
05/28/2026

The LAST SESSION of Screen, Sketch, and Share with Jim Libiran is this upcoming Monday, June 1 at 7pm!

We’ll be revisiting one of Jim’s favourites, the animated Oscar-winning short film: The Girl Who Cried Pearls (2025)

“A poor boy’s love for a girl whose tears turn to pearls leads him into a perilous bargain between love, greed, and survival.”
A film by Chris Lavine & Maciek Szczerbowski

Please join us!
🔗 RSVP now through the link in our bio.

Some snap shots from The Theatre Centre fundraiser last week ❤️Thank you to The Theatre Centre Board of Directors, The G...
05/27/2026

Some snap shots from The Theatre Centre fundraiser last week ❤️

Thank you to The Theatre Centre Board of Directors, The Good Son, Island Oysters Restaurant & Bar, Sushi Momo, and Custom Topper Fairy Desserts for making the evening so special! ️

Everyone who attended got a sneak peek of the surreal and laugh-out-loud world of Versus from Adam Lazarus, Guillermo Verdecchia, and Ann-Marie Kerr, which will be premiering November 2026.

VERSUS: Sneak Peek is this weekend! Friday and Saturday are SOLD OUT — with only a couple tickets left for Sunday. Feeli...
05/20/2026

VERSUS: Sneak Peek is this weekend! Friday and Saturday are SOLD OUT — with only a couple tickets left for Sunday. Feeling lucky? Try your luck at the door for last minute seats ($15 all in!)

Don’t miss your chance to be part of the process, to say you saw it before anyone else!

“i have said it before and i will say it again: working here has been one of the great privileges of my life. i have had...
05/14/2026

“i have said it before and i will say it again: working here has been one of the great privileges of my life. i have had the opportunity to support so much art and community and build so many lasting relationships and i will never, ever take that for granted. i have been welcomed and seen for exactly who i am (deep and abiding technological inabilities and all – if you know, you know). it is rare to work anywhere that centres its team’s humanity and allows its members to bring their full selves to the table, and i want to credit aislinn with creating and upholding this culture. i am grateful to have worked so closely with the best team and the best partner in crime a girl could ask for and to have had the chance to play a part in making the theatre centre what it is today (and to make sure that there is always some j. wray and nephew overproof white rum stocked at the bar). sending big big love to everyone who has been a part of this journey with me. i will see you around.”

— liza paul, outgoing Associate Artistic Director

Full announcement on our website (link in bio).

A message from the Artistic Director: "This year...we came to the miserable conclusion that even with the changes we’d m...
05/14/2026

A message from the Artistic Director:

"This year...we came to the miserable conclusion that even with the changes we’d made, we could no longer sustain the Associate Artistic Director position (in addition to a number of other big changes we’d need to address). We would need to restructure ourselves into a leaner team, more like the one we had before the pandemic, and before the COVID emergency funds that finally had us feeling we were being funded at a level closer to our venued peers.

This has been, as I said to begin, one of the most difficult decisions we’ve ever had to make, to communicate, to share, and 100% the most difficult time of transition I’ve experienced. But this message is not about that. It’s about celebrating a beautiful human who means so much to so many of us."

— Aislinn Rose, Artistic Director

Read the full announcement on our website: https://theatrecentre.org/2026-liza-paul/

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