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September 2018
The Second City Improv Showdown
Get ready Toronto, this summer The Second City is taking family entertainment to a mind-blowing new level! Two hilarious teams of top-notch improvisers will face off in a winner takes all comedy showdown – and they’re going to need your help! Fuelled by weird suggestions and energized by audience volunteers, our teams will work hard to earn your votes in a desperate attempt to become the heavyweight comedy champions of the world! At least until the next show… Specially designed…
Find out more »Canadian Childrens’ Opera Company “Bring A Friend” Night
We're welcoming new families to learn what the CCOC is all about and to show them just how much fun singing with friends can be. If your child is JK - Grade 6, we'd love to have you drop by so they can see what a rehearsal is like, meet other kids who love music as much as they do, and to have your family share the joy of music with us. For more information, contact us at info@canadianchildrensopera.com
Find out more »Sharon, Bram & Friends Farewell Benefit Concert
Sharon & Bram Return to YPT for a Fond, Final Farewell ONE EVENING PERFORMANCE ONLY: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28TH! Young People’s Theatre (YPT) is thrilled to open its 53rd Season with an event 40 years in the making: SHARON, BRAM & FRIENDS – A 40th Anniversary Sing-Along Celebration. This event is a special farewell benefit concert, offering one last chance to see Sharon and Bram, before they retire, in the place it all began back in 1978: the Mainstage at YPT.…
Find out more »The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show
The timeless classic has made its way off the page and onto the stage! The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by author/illustrator Eric Carle has delighted generations of readers since it was first published in 1969 selling more than 43 million copies worldwide. Created by Jonathan Rockefeller, the critically acclaimed production of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show’ features a menagerie of 75 lovable puppets, faithfully adapting four of Eric Carle stories!
Find out more »SHARON, BRAM & FRIENDS – A 40th Anniversary Sing-Along Celebration
Skinnamarink your way to Front Street for a concert that’s sure to delight young fans and nostalgia-seekers. Sharon, Lois and Bram performed their very first concert here at YPT in 1978! Since then they have become known as Canada’s most legendary children’s performers, charming and educating audiences for the past 40 years. To celebrate this milestone, Sharon, Bram & Friends return home to YPT’s Mainstage for the final time on this farewell concert tour with just seven delightful sing-along shows,…
Find out more »Conscious Parenting with Dr. Shefali
Just in time for school, Dr. Shefali Tsabary, Oprah’s favourite parenting teacher will be coming to Toronto on September 30th 2018. She is a clinical psychologist, international speaker, New York Times bestselling author of “The Conscious Parent” and “The Awakened Family”. Dr. Shefali will share her radically different approach to parenting that has transformed the lives of so many families.
Find out more »October 2018
Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra
Exquisite Chinese instruments meld with a grand Western orchestra in a perfect harmony of East and West. New York-based Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra blends the two musical traditions in what critics call a breakthrough in classical music. Western strings, percussion, woodwinds, and brass accentuate the melodies of soul-stirring ancient Chinese instruments like the plucked pipa and two-stringed erhu. Part of the renowned Shen Yun Performing Arts classical Chinese dance company that wows sold-out audiences around the world, Shen Yun Symphony…
Find out more »MOMIX presents Opus Cactus
Internationally renowned MOMIX is a company of dancer-illusionists who weave a surreal world of whimsy and optical confusion. Full of surprises, each show is a visual and sensory journey of astounding inventiveness and physical beauty. A fantastical compilation of muscularly sculpted dancers, unique costumes, artfully created lighting and a beguiling musical score will not fail to astonish, enchant, and inspire. MOMIX’s Artistic Director, Moses Pendleton, is one of America’s most innovative and widely performed choreographers and directors. Expect the unexpected…
Find out more »The Wiggles – Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle Tour
The Wiggles are coming to perform for you as part of their Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle! tour! This brand new show will see Emma, Lachy, Anthony and Simon performing all over the World! Already in 2018 The Wiggles have performed over 250 shows!! Over the last year The Wiggles toured all around the world including Australia, New Zealand, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Canada! They performed to over a quarter of a million fans around the world, making The Wiggles the…
Find out more »Heroes and Villains
We’re starting our year with a kid-friendly experience. The lobby will have instruments to try and a Q&A with our musicians. A few lucky folk will get to sit on stage right beside their favourite instrument! We’ll have some fun with music from Star Wars, Disney, and more. Tickets are available at http://bit.ly/mcb-oct18 $25 per adult, Children under 12 are free!
Find out more »November 2018
The YPT Production of Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s Mary Poppins
ON THE MAINSTAGE NOV. 5, 2018 – JAN. 6, 2019 RECOMMENDED FOR AGES 5 & UP RUNS APPROX. 90 MIN.* HOLIDAY MUSICAL! Jane and Michael’s father insists upon precision and order in their household. But when the children write their own advertisement for a nanny their dreams are answered with the practically-perfect Mary Poppins! The entire Banks Family learns a great deal about each other through Mary who has the uncanny ability to turn everything upside down and, miraculously, just…
Find out more »Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire™ in Concert
Featuring the Toronto Symphony Orchestra First a bestseller, then a major movie, now a magical concert event: CineConcerts presents Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire™ – in Concert. Experience your favorite wizard all over again with the music of a live symphony orchestra and the magic of Harry Potter™ soaring across the big screen in high-definition. Get ready to fight a dragon, swim with merpeople, and find out just who put Harry’s name in the Goblet of Fire™! For the…
Find out more »It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
A beloved family classic, just in time for the holidays! (Returning LOT Favourite, Sold out in 2015 - 2016 - 2017) Faced with a life of dreams deferred, George Bailey sets out to throw himself from a bridge — until a dotty angel-in-waiting shows him what might have been. Don't miss this beloved holiday classic, brought to captivating life as a live 1940s radio broadcast! Revisit Bedford Falls, fall in love again with George and Mary, and discover the magic…
Find out more »December 2018
Once On This Island
The award-winning family show comes to Toronto! If your family loved The Little Mermaid or Moana, they'll love the captivating legend of romance between a peasant girl and the rich boy whom she saves from death. Filled with calypso-flavoured songs, this musical takes place on a Caribbean island where villagers are telling the magical story of the orphan Ti Moune: a fearless girl in search of her place in the world, and ready to risk it all for love! Guided…
Find out more »Home Alone in Concert
Back by popular demand! A box-office monster hit when it was released in 1990, this madcap family comedy has become a certified holiday classic. Macaulay Culkin stars as an inventive eight-year-old, accidentally left alone over Christmas, who repeatedly outsmarts a couple of bone-headed burglars. John Williams’s delightful score packs extra punch and sparkle when the TSO, joined by Resonance Youth Choir, performs it live with the film! Performances: December 6, 2018 | 7:30 pm December 7, 2018 | 7:30 pm December…
Find out more »Slava’s Snowshow
Bluma Appel Theatre A Dream-like Vision of Theatrical Beauty & Uninhibited Joy The multi award-winning, international sensation blows back into the Great White North just in time for the holidays! Returning to Toronto for the first time in two decades, the scruffy, disarming troupe of clowns will take audiences on a spellbinding adventure, unleashing full-throttle madness amidst enchanting, contemplative moments, before roaring to its legendary finish. For more than 25 years, millions of audiences around the globe have rediscovered a…
Find out more »A Very Electric Christmas
Brighten your holidays with Lightwire Theatre’s A Very Electric Christmas! Audiences of all ages will treasure this magical and captivating tale of family, friendship and hope set to timeless holiday hits. You can’t help but become emotionally involved in the story of a brave baby bird and his harrowing adventures to make it home for Christmas. Renowned for their signature brand of dazzling visuals, poignant storytelling and evocative music, it’s hard not to smile watching Lightwire’s dancers perform in the…
Find out more »Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Almost 150 years after Jules Verne wrote Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and six decades after Disney turned the book into a technicolour motion picture, the theatrical marvel is coming to Markham! This thrilling tale foretold issues of water and colonialism, predicted inconceivable uses of electricity, envisaged submarines, diving suits and stun guns. Using modern technology, dazzling staging and a cutting-edge genre of “steampunk” science fiction, this brand-new production expands Verne’s imaginings in an exciting, character-driven narrative across and…
Find out more »Canada’s Ballet Jörgen presents The Nutcracker, A Canadian Tradition
Holiday magic is made year after year by Ballet Jörgen’s treasure, The Nutcracker, a Canadian Tradition. Created by acclaimed choreographer and Artistic Director Bengt Jörgen to Tchaikovsky’s well-loved score, this delightful classic is a favourite that brings magic to the holidays. It’s Christmas Eve 1912 and an orphan named Klara arrives at a holiday party with her beautiful Nutcracker doll. As Klara’s dream and Tchaikovsky’s music unfold and the magic animates a colourful cast of characters, you’ll see why Ballet…
Find out more »March 2019
Peter & the Wolf and Carnival of Animals Kerry Stratton and the Toronto Concert Orchestra
As conductor of the Toronto Concert Orchestra, internationally-acclaimed Maestro Kerry Stratton strives to develop more powerful and deep connections through music between and among performers and audiences. This incredible orchestra and their legendary conductor will be performing Peter & the Wolf, written and composed by Sergei Prokofiev, and Carnival of the Animals composed by Camille Saint-Saëns. Featuring pianists Myriam Blardone and Tristan Savella.
Find out more »Popovich Comedy Pet Theater
The Popovich Comedy Pet Theater is entertainment for the whole family, featuring the unique blend of comedy and juggling skills of former Moscow Circus veteran Gregory Popovich and the extraordinary talents of his performing pets. His entourage consists of world-class jugglers, Diamond the Shetland Pony and over 30 performing pets including house cats and dogs (all rescued from animal shelters!), geese, white doves and parrots. The Popovich Comedy Pet Theater has a rich performance history, presenting thousands of shows in…
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