Every Saturday night at 8:30pm

Soulpepper Cabaret Series - our weekly series of intimate cabarets!

These musical showcases will include established feature artists, fresh and exciting talent, as well as intimate groupings of artists from Toronto's diverse musical community.

Tickets starting from $25 / $20 student tickets
Ticket prices include all fees and taxes

Michael Frayn

On stage September 21

Called the funniest farce ever written, this classic comedy proves what happens onstage is just the tip of the iceberg. Opening night is just hours away as a misfit company of actors juggle their lines, love lives, and plates of sardines.

Tickets from $32 (price includes all fees and taxes)

Michel Tremblay
Translated by John Van Burek and Bill Glassco

On stage September 23

This seminal Tremblay work is celebrated in English Canada as much as it is in French Canada. Hosanna returns from the biggest night of her life, dressed as Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra. What follows is a harrowing, and often hilarious and revelatory, journey towards identity.

Mature language and content.

Tickets from $32 (price includes all fees and taxes)

William Shakespeare
Translated by Amitosh Nagpal

On stage October 27, 28, 29

Since its premiere at Shakespeare’s Globe in London, England, this high-energy, musical adaptation of Twelfth Night has been a runaway success in India and around the world. Witness a joyful take on mistaken identities, romance, and unrequited love, from India’s esteemed The Company Theatre.
In Hindi with projected English translation

Tickets from $25 (price includes all fees and taxes)

On stage October 31, November 4 & 5

From Grand Central Station to Times Square and up Broadway to the Brill Building, Host Albert Schultz and Slaight Family Director of Music Mike Ross explore the history and musical abundance of a neighbourhood at the “centre of the universe.”

Tickets from $25 (price includes all fees and taxes)

Ravi and Asha Jain

On stage November 1-5

After winning over crowds around the globe, this audience-favourite returns. Soulpepper Associate Artistic Director Ravi Jain shares the stage with his mother, Asha, to tell their true (and very Canadian) story of generational and cultural clash. Mother and son present very different sides of the same story, with touching and hilarious results.

Tickets from $25 (price includes all fees and taxes)

By Noël Coward

November 9-19, 2016

A cavalcade of English life from New Year’s Eve 1899 until 1930 seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners, the Marryot family, a quintessential British family, and their servants, the Bridges. Coward’s epic play shows us the dramatically changing world set against major historical events of the period, including the Boer War; the death of Queen Victoria; the sinking of the Titanic; and World War I and its aftermath. Coward’s sprawling and poignant portrait of a rapidly changing world.

NC Aventales, AGG, 1931. Copyright agent: Alan Brodie Representation Ltd. www.alanbrodie.com

Tickets: $8 - $20 (price includes all fees and taxes)

Produced by KABIN and The Storefront Theatre
Book adapted by Tyrone Savage
Music and Lyrics by James Smith

On stage November 11

Based on one of Canada’s most beloved folk tales, the original musical Chasse-Galerie follows the adventures of four coureuses des bois stuck deep in the Québec forest on New Year's Eve. The four woods-women, pining for warmth and their loved ones, strike a deal with a mysterious stranger who offers to enchant their canoe to fly back to Montréal. The catch: make it back before dawn, or pay the devil’s price.

Tickets from $36 (price includes all fees and taxes)

Charles Dickens
Adapted by Michael Shamata

On stage December 1

Soulpepper’s beloved production of A Christmas Carol has become a Toronto holiday tradition. Follow Ebenezer Scrooge as he is visited by three ghosts who help him understand the importance of charity in the holiday season.

Recommended for ages 8+

Tickets from $32 (price includes all fees and taxes)

Based on the stories of Robert Munsch

November 30 - December 10, 2016

George Brown’s 30th annual children’s show celebrates the world of Canada’s best loved children’s author, Robert Munsch! Our theatre-for-young-audience shows have introduced thousands of GTA children to the magic of live theatre over the past three decades. Robert Munsch’s charming stories continue to enchant young readers, as well as old! Please join us we bring to the stage the delightful, and spirited, world of Munsch!
* suitable for children 3 years of age and up.

Tickets: $8 - $20 (price includes all fees and taxes)

Written for the stage by Philip Grecian
Based on the film by Frank Capra

On stage December 9

A cherished holiday classic is reimagined as a 1940s live-radio broadcast as the Soulpepper ensemble presents the beloved story of George Bailey and the intervention of his guardian angel one fateful Christmas Eve.

Recommended for ages 8+

Tickets from $32 (price includes all fees and taxes)

Magicana:
Written by David Ben and Patrick Watson
Directed and Performed by David Ben

On stage December 10

Spoken word, cinema, sleight-of-hand; the old, the new, the beautiful and the mysterious: it’s all Hocus Pocus. World-renowned magician David Ben returns to Soulpepper’s Family Festival with his ever-evolving exploration of spellbinding illusion and wonder. Ancient mysteries with modern twists for all ages performed in an intimate salon-like setting.

Recommended for ages 8+

Tickets from $25 (price includes all fees and taxes)

Adapted by Mike Ross and Sarah Wilson
Lyrics by Sarah Wilson, Music by Mike Ross
Based on The World Is Round by Gertrude Stein

On stage December 16, 17, 22

A rose is a rose is a rose… but who is Rose? In this whimsical new musical presentation based on Gertrude Stein’s children’s book The World Is Round, nine-year-old Rose has some big questions, and not a lot of answers. With the help of her best friend Willie, and her dog Love, Rose takes a magical journey to discover her place in the world.
Recommended for ages 8+

Tickets from $25 (price includes all fees and taxes)

On stage December 20

Guests of all ages are invited to a family concert celebrating the sounds of the season from around the globe. Featuring Mike Ross leading an all-star line-up of Toronto’s best musicians.

Recommended for ages 6+.

Tickets from $32 (price includes all fees and taxes)

Created and Directed by Ins Choi, Raquel Duffy, Ken MacKenzie, Gregory Prest and Mike Ross
Poems by Dennis Lee.

On stage December 27

Alligator Pie, an original Soulpepper production and Dora Award-winner, brings the celebrated children’s poems of Canada’s Father Goose, Dennis Lee, to vibrant theatrical life.

Recommended for ages 3+

Tickets from $25 (price includes all fees and taxes)

Kate Hennig
Originally produced by the Stratford Festival

On stage January 20

War is on the horizon – in France and in the home of Henry VIII and his new wife Katherine Parr. Sex, violence and women’s rights shape a humorous and powerful contemporary take on the tumultuous relationship that sculpted a dynasty.

Tickets from $32 (price includes all fees and taxes)

by William Shakespeare

February 8-18, 2017

A story of order and disorder, reality and appearance, and love and marriage. On a midsummer’s night, four young lovers find themselves wrapped in the dream-like arms of an enchanted and bewitched forest where sprites lurk and fairies rule. While a feuding Fairy King and Queen are at war, their paths are crossed by Bottom, Quince, and a gaggle of friends presenting a play within a play. Chief mischief-maker Puck ensures the course of true love is anything but smooth. Games of fantasy, love, and dreams ensue in Shakespeare’s most beguiling, and well loved, comedy.

Tickets: $8 - $20 (price includes all fees and taxes)

Ins Choi

On stage February 8

Soulpepper Academy alumnus Ins Choi's hilarious and touching play set in a Regent Park Korean convenience store has been winning over audiences from coast to coast. The journey of a fractured but loving family confronting the future and forgiving the past is a Toronto classic in the making.

Tickets from $32 (price includes all fees and taxes)

by William Shakespeare

February 9-18, 2017

The story of lovers Rosalind and Orlando who, when forced to flee into the Forest of Arden, become ensnared in a game of romance and mistaken identity. Frenzied and beguiling, this charming play toys with our understanding of love, gender roles, nature, and politics, where sudden infatuation is as confusing as it is beautiful. As You Like It has everything we adore about Shakespearean comedy: mistaken identity, cross-dressing, madness, mayhem, rage, lust, laughter, and of course plenty of romance, both heartbreaking and joyous. As You Like It is romantic comedy at its most delightful.

Tickets: $8 - $20 (price includes all fees and taxes)

Vern Thiessen
Based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham

On stage February 23

Soulpepper’s acclaimed production returns! Of Human Bondage is an epic tale of obsession, lust, and the pursuit of beauty, commissioned by Soulpepper and adapted for the stage by Governor General’s Award-winning playwright Vern Thiessen..

Tickets from $32 (price includes all fees and taxes)

On stage March 4, 18

Due to audience demand, the full Manhattan Concert Cycle returns, featuring Albert Schultz as conductor on an unforgettable journey through the history, culture, and rhythms of the original neighbourhoods of Manhattan. Led by Slaight Family Director of Music, Mike Ross, and an all-star lineup of talent.

Tickets from $25 (price includes all fees and taxes)

On stage March 7, 18

Due to audience demand, the full Manhattan Concert Cycle returns, featuring Albert Schultz as conductor on an unforgettable journey through the history, culture, and rhythms of the original neighbourhoods of Manhattan. Led by Slaight Family Director of Music, Mike Ross, and an all-star lineup of talent.

Tickets from $25 (price includes all fees and taxes)

On stage March 10, 18

Due to audience demand, the full Manhattan Concert Cycle returns, featuring Albert Schultz as conductor on an unforgettable journey through the history, culture, and rhythms of the original neighbourhoods of Manhattan. Led by Slaight Family Director of Music, Mike Ross, and an all-star lineup of talent.

Tickets from $25 (price includes all fees and taxes)

Created by Diego Matamoros, Lorenzo Savoini & Richard Feren

On stage March 11

The stage, any stage, even the one within our head, is a cage... that defines, limits, reveals. What is visible and invisible, sounds and the silence that makes sound possible, all co-existing. The ordinary and the miraculous. Our human zoo. Performed by Soulpepper Founding Member Diego Matamoros and co-created with designers Lorenzo Savoini and Richard Feren, Cage asks us to re-think, and re-experience what it is to see and hear and be.

Tickets from $32 (price includes all fees and taxes)

Created and performed by Karen Hines

On stage March 23

A perfect little coach house turns into a real life nightmare in Karen Hines’ comic, Kafkaesque tale about the darker side of home ownership. Inspired by true events, Crawlspace moves past “cautionary” as it snakes through the brutal battleground of Toronto real estate, decorative twig orbs and the transcendence of the human soul.
Limited seating.

Minimum Age is 19, ID Required

Originally produced in Toronto at Videofag, September 2015

Tickets from $36 (price includes all fees and taxes)

Adapted by Mike Ross & Albert Schultz
Composed by Mike Ross
Based on Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

On stage March 31

In Soulpepper’s award-winning adaptation of Spoon River, Edgar Lee Masters’ poems of the dead are brought to vibrant life. The residents of a sleepy mid-west graveyard return to share their funny, gritty, and touching memories to curious passersby. It’s a moving piece of original music theatre that is ultimately an uplifting celebration of life.

Tickets from $32 (price includes all fees and taxes)

On stage April 11, 13, 15

Music Director Mike Ross leads a company of stellar artists through a celebration of Canada’s diverse musical offerings that have been our nation’s gift to the world.

Tickets from $36 (price includes all fees and taxes)

By Margaret Atwood

April 11-22, 2017

As portrayed in Homer's 'Odyssey', Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - has become a symbol of wifely duty and devotion, enduring twenty years of waiting while her husband goes to fight in the Trojan War. During his absence, Penelope fights off the attentions of a hundred greedy suitors. When Odysseus finally comes home, he kills her suitors and then, in an act that served as a brief footnote in Homer's original story, ruthlessly hangs Penelope's twelve maids. Destined to spend eternity in Hades, Penelope recounts her life’s story and the murder of her twelve handmaidens by her vengeful husband. Atwood’s clever storytelling brings one of history’s most powerful myths to the contemporary imagination. A provocative new look at a woman’s longing, lust and culpability.

Tickets: $8 - $20 (price includes all fees and taxes)

A new version of Georges Feydeau’s farce by David Ives

April 12-22, 2017

Raymonde Chandelbise suspects her husband, Victor, a placid and successful insurance executive, is secretly having an affair. She confides her doubts to her friend, Lucienne, who suggests a trick to test him: write a letter, from a fictitious and anonymous admirer, suggesting a rendezvous at a shady, notorious hotel. What ensues is classic Feydeau: mistaken identity; whispers of infidelity; elaborate plots that go awry; and impressive physical comedy. Winner of the 2006 Jefferson Award for best adaptation, Ives’ translation of the original’s dazzling plot is crisp and lovingly ridiculous.

A Flea in Her Ear is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service Inc., New York.

Tickets: $8 - $20 (price includes all fees and taxes)

Written and performed by Pamela Mala Sinha

On stage April 26-29

After the loss of a loved one, a woman must face the shattering memories of a past trauma. CRASH is the fractured unraveling of memory; blending projections, myth, and dance into a riveting narrative about family, faith and love.

Tickets from $25 (price includes all fees and taxes)

Created and directed by Judith Thompson

On stage May 2

Wildfire, a new play by Judith Thompson with the RARE ensemble, explores the boundaries of love for people with visible differences, and the ways in which they struggle with societal judgement. When a millennial male with Down syndrome falls for someone who does not have Down syndrome, questions are raised about exploitation, ethics, and the nature of love. Performed by the cast of 2013’s ground-breaking RARE, Wildfire is a blend of confession, heartbreak, and joy.

Tickets from $50 (price includes all fees and taxes)

Haley McGee

On stage May 3-6

Blending storytelling, live-art and improvisation, I’m Doing This for You is a big romantic gesture made by a woman for a man. He’s an aspiring stand-up comedian with a birthday to celebrate, and you, the audience, are the gift (it’s a surprise). Funny, uncomfortable, and daring, McGee explores the extremes a person will go to in the name of not being alone.

Minimum Age is 19, ID Required

Tickets from $25 (price includes all fees and taxes)

Conceived and adapted by Lee Bruer
Music composed by Bob Telson

On stage May 5

This ground-breaking Obie Award-winning work reinterprets the Greek myth of Oedipus into a Pentecostal Gospel musical, to stunning theatrical effect. Parables come to life as the Chorus spins a spellbinding yarn of one man’s search for redemption.

Tickets from $32 (price includes all fees and taxes)

On stage May 17-20

An original Soulpepper collective creation based on the legendary American poet, essayist, painter, and playwright E. E. Cummings, this compelling and humorous musical exploration of Cummings’ extensive canon is an ode to the depth and imagination of his work. It’s an innovative, immersive and highly theatrical perspective on one of the preeminent creative voices of the 20th century.

Tickets from $25 (price includes all fees and taxes)

On stage May 27 & 30, June 1 & 3

The Gershwins blended folk tunes with classical opera to create what has become one of the most enduring works of the 20th century. The stories behind this legendary work, and iconic song writing, are brought to life by a company of Toronto’s leading jazz, blues and gospel singers.

Tickets from $25 (price includes all fees and taxes)

VideoCabaret
Michael Hollingsworth

On stage June 9

VideoCabaret spectacularly conjures the era of Confederation in four tragicomic one-act plays, presented in two parts.

Confederation – John A. Macdonald masterminds the deal-making that leads to the fireworks on July 1, 1867. In a Montreal hotbed of anti-confederationists, Wilfrid Laurier meets Louis Riel.

Riel – Macdonald plans to turn the west into one big Ontario. Riel and Métis leaders collide with surveyors, and religious radicals plot terror; Laurier is spurred to act on his multi-cultural and secular ideals.

Tickets from $25 (price includes all fees and taxes)

VideoCabaret
Michael Hollingsworth

On stage June 23

VideoCabaret spectacularly conjures the era of Confederation in four tragicomic one-act plays, presented in two parts.

Scandal – Business barons compete to own the hottest technology – the railway lines – and Macdonald is caught trading contracts for donations. Member of Parliament Riel is prevented by fanatics from taking his seat; MP Laurier falls for his best friend’s wife.

Rebellion – Riel joins with Gabriel Dumont and Big Bear whose fight for land claims is met with military action and mass starvation. With Laurier protesting, Macdonald allows the execution of Riel, and the Last Spike is hammered.

Tickets from $25 (price includes all fees and taxes)

Vern Thiessen

On stage June 29

A group of Canadian soldiers convalesce in a field hospital after facing the horrors of Vimy Ridge in this striking WWI drama from Governor General’s Award-winning playwright Vern Thiessen. As the soldiers battle with their memories of the past, a young nurse from Nova Scotia tends to their wounds both obvious and concealed.

Tickets from $32 (price includes all fees and taxes)

Written and Composed by John MacLachlan Gray with Eric Peterson

On stage July 1

The story of irreverent hero and Canadian WWI flying ace Billy Bishop remains one of the most critically-acclaimed Canadian plays of all time. Returning to Soulpepper in celebration of Canada’s 150th anniversary, Canadian acting legend Eric Peterson and award-winning writer and composer John MacLachlan Gray reprise their iconic two-man stage play that has captivated audiences for decades.

Tickets from $32 (price includes all fees and taxes)