Nightwood Theatre’s International Women’s Day Celebration! This sell-out event is now in its 28th year.
The only cabaret in town where performers of every discipline come together in an irreverent and boisterous celebration of women!!  This year it will be hosted by Sandra Battaglini, Canadian comedy award-winner for her show, Hard Headed Woman

Obsidian Theatre Company in association with Nightwood Theatre presents the Toronto Premiere of Ruined. Set in a present-day small mining town in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lynn Nottage’s Ruined (2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama) follows a young woman’s nightmarish path to Mama Nadi, a savvy businesswoman who, in the midst of a complex civil war, both protects and profits from the women whose bodies have become battlegrounds. At once heartbreaking and captivating, Ruined pays homage to the courageous and resilient women who must piece themselves together after the ruin.

As part of Nightwood Theatre’s 30th Anniversary Season, the 4x4 Festival marked a momentous occasion for the company.  The Festival and Director’s Summit, drew upwards of 16,000 audience members and 150 delegates from across Canada

The only cabaret in town where performers of every discipline come together in an irreverent and boisterous celebration of women!!
FemCab 2010 was hosted by Ellen-Ray Hennessy and Lisa Karen Cox with house band, The Guiomar Campbell Trio with ten extraordinary performers (music, comedy, dance, film, theatre and more) showing their wares.

This existential masterpiece gets a 21st century treatment as a ‘live movie’ in this extraordinary, hybrid film and theatre theatre performance conceived and directed by the prolific Kim Collier – one of the most exciting Canadian directors of this generation in her Toronto debut. 

Serious Money established Caryl Churchill as one of the most powerful and innovative satirists of our time. Set amongst the world of champagne, stock exchange swindles and big business, it is a blisteringly funny three-ring circus of selfishness and greed.
Starring the Graduating Class of Ryerson Theatre School.

Mia is at boarding school. She has access to drugs. They are Martha’s. Henry has dropped out of school. He has access to alcohol. From Martha. Martha controls their lives. Martha is their mother. That Face is a powerful and darkly comic exploration of children who become parents to their parents. A dazzling debut by Polly Stenham that recently took London’s West End by storm, That Face is an explosive portrayal of an affluent family in freefall. Winner of the Evening Standard Award and was written when Stenham was only 19 years old.

A gathering of theatre professionals from across Canada and around the world to connect and exchange ideas on the art of interpretation. Motivated by the desire to propel career opportunities for women through showcase, training and discourse, Nightwood has assembled a roster of renowned national and international directors for panels, masterclasses, networking and more. Join us for an exciting week of revelation, introspection and innovation in theatre.

A 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Finalist and winner of the prestigious 2002/2003 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, this seminal play is an edgy and provocative examination of the complexities of inter-racial prejudice, centering around the relationship between Eugene, a light-skinned black man, and Alma, a dark-skinned black woman. Yet Yellowman is much more than a story about race and prejudice. It’s a love story and a tale about families and the damage they inflict upon their members. Black or white, you will recognize the shades of gray.

Comedy-marvel and performer Diane Flacks takes you on an up-front-and-personal, hilarious and poignant journey in an exploration of the all-consuming rollercoaster that will leave you in stitches (not down there).  From pregnancy to queer-parenting and from conception to the real “ring of fire”, Bear With Me culminates in the love affair with her child and the search for self amidst the chaos. This stage adaptation of her book by the same name is a comic flight into the secret and insane world of motherhood.

New work by Lisa Codrington, Florence Gibson, Natalie Meisner, Maia Kareda, Beatriz Pizano, Sally Stubbs and Madeleine Blais Dahlem in our annual festival of new work by women.

Each evening at dusk, six people gather at the edge of the woods calling their dogs back – dogs that have turned wild.  Drawn together by need, this unlikely group forms a community – until violence strikes unexpectedly. An unforgettable story about the wild in all of us

A brazen young writer’s campaign to ensure the past is not forgotten is challenged as she prepares for her book release - transporting us to one of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century.

Genre-busting, rule-bending and ambitiously original, award-winning playwright Linda Griffiths’ Age of Arousal is a lavish, sexy ensemble piece about the forbidden and gloriously liberated self.

New work by Sonja Mills, Erin Shields, Dennison Smith, Niki Landau, Marjorie Chan and Stacey Engels in our annual festival of new work by women.

Crave presents four characters, or perhaps four aspects of human nature, set in an unnamed city. Two men and two women, each only having a letter for a name, are linked through various relationships. The ferocity of craving someone, or something, is palpable in this intriguing inter-textual work. Sarah Kane paints four portraits of the turbulence of the human heart as these four individuals negotiate the pressures of love, loss and desire.

Back by Popular demand, Sonja Mills’ The Danish Play returns to Toronto after a national and international tour! Kate Hennig leads a powerful ensemble in this riveting production that has received massive critical acclaim. The Danish Play, a true story of resistance, is the swirling saga of Agnete Ottosen, the Danish Poet and famed Resistance fighter. Sonja Mills, Ottosen’s great-niece, has written a play that offers historical insight and critical reflection on some of the most urgent issues of our time- nationalism, justice and freedom.

An aging woman’s sexuality, a marriage in midlife crisis and the taboo of a young boy’s flesh, Mathilde is a feast of emotional contradictions. An arrestingly honest look at a woman trying to reclaim her individuality in midlife, someone who has banished herself from her comfortable, upper middle class marriage, and her successful career to a self-imposed excommunication fueled by sexual abandonment.