The Theatre Centre
Here are the tour ready productions from The Theatre Centre, 2026-27. To learn more about any of these works, or what we do at The Theatre Centre, please contact us!
Versus
Featuring Adam Lazarus
bouffon, magic, comedy | World Premiere November 2026
World Premiere in November 2027, Toronto
It’s Gerald Bloom’s birthday and he doesn’t want to go to his party — Everything feels like a fight. Join Gerald on a wild ride through the horror, comedy, delusion, grief, and joy of being human. Feel Alive Again.
Created by award-winning Canadian collaborators Adam Lazarus, Guillermo Verdecchia, and Ann-Marie Kerr comes a laugh-out-loud experience that can only happen in the theatre. Cake included.
Daughter
Featuring Adam Lazarus
bouffon, mysoginy, toxic masculinity | World Premiere 2017 | Toured across Canada and to the UK, Australia, and Romania
★★★★
“Electrifying. A timely portrait of everyday misogyny hiding in plain sight.”
Neil Cooper | The Herald | 2019
★★★★
“Magnetic. The audience are unsure whether to give a standing ovation or stage a walk out.”
Kate Wyver | The Guardian
Both hysterical and disturbing, Daughter plays in the liminal space between autobiography and fiction.
Daughter interrogates questions of culpability and complicity in our society. It examines the subtle and not so subtle ways we condone and encourage misogyny; “boys will be boys”.
Welcome to Daughter: a show that exposes the hypocrisies and complexities of the human experience.
Loss
by Ian Kamau
“Ian Kamau spins sadness into the sublime”
CBC Arts
“Loss shows us that looking back, as much as it can hurt, can also heal.”
Theatremania
multidisciplinary, live art, family story | World Premiere 2023 | Also presented at The Apollo (Under The Rader Festival) in 2025
Loss is a deeply honest, live retelling of an intergenerational family story, written by Ian Kamau and his father Roger McTair.
This multi-media performance begins as a mirror into a winter of depression, then slowly unravels the mystery surrounding the death of his paternal grandmother Nora Elutha Rogers.
An orchestration of memories using live music, video, and storytelling — Loss is an exploration of grief in Afro-Caribbean communities, and an immersive experience towards healing shared with the audience.
The Unfamiliar Everything
by Stewart Legere
intimate performance, concert, mythmaking | World Premiere 2027 May
A multidisciplinary performance by Stewart Legere/The Accidental Mechanics Group, created in collaboration with queer artists from across the country, The Unfamiliar Everything is an experiment in communication across genre, distance, and time.
It delves into the generative power of loneliness, the intricacies of queer spiritualities, and the radiant constellations of kinship. Through this extraordinary confluence of artists, the performance will weave story, sound, imagery and mythmaking into an experience that invites audiences into a shared space of wonder, connection, and possibility—opening a portal to something vast, intimate, and human.
The Changeover
by Jenn Goodwin
dance, sound, interdisciplinary | currently looking for partners for the premiere
An exploration of the changeover between bands at a concert is a potent place of choreographic and spiritual playground.
It represents an opportunity to look at change, transition, transformation, and the small yet special moments in our lives through the lens of a rock show; an event we attend to be entertained by music, performance, lighting and collectivity.
The changeover is usually the time to talk, get a drink, go to the washroom, etc. At the very moment we are encouraged to look away, The Changeover shines a light.
This is Not What I Wanted to Tell you
by Rimah Jabr
storytelling, visual art, genocide | currently looking for partners for the premiere
This is Not What I Want to Tell You is a 50-minute performance/installation about a 15-year-old sleepwalker who one day wakes up by a settlement fence while getting arrested. But did she really commit anything?
Rimah Jabr wrote the story during a wave of knife attacks by Palestinian teenagers in 2015 and 2016, with most being shot or imprisoned before causing harm.
In a land where childhood is under constant surveillance, children are often imprisoned for ordinary activities, playing in the ‘wrong’ area, crossing invisible boundaries, or merely existing in their lands. The piece explores how these young people, denied the language and platforms to express their experiences, find their bodies become both the message and the medium of their resistance.
Through a fusion of performance and installation featuring sun prints, this dream-like experience invites audiences to engage with the narrative from multiple perspectives while witnessing the live creation of visual elements that embody unspoken truths and unspeakable realities.
About Residency
Residency is a structured two-year program (sometimes longer!) providing groups/artists with the necessary space, funding and mentorship to craft ideas still in their infancy into finished works that are provocative, innovative, and ambitious. We look for good ideas, drawing us to projects led by directors, designers, composers, choreographers, architects, visual artists, and even a neurologist. Residency facilitates a highly collaborative artistic process that starts by asking what do you need? Learn more about Residency.
Residency is generously supported by BMO Financial.
Photos from previous Residency showings
Contact us
We’re looking for partners and touring opportunities.
The Theatre Centre is a nationally recognized live-arts incubator and community hub based in Toronto, Canada. We’re nationally recognized for our unique Residency program.
We believe art is political. We believe resources go further when you share them. We believe cultural spaces are public spaces. We believe in offering artists time—time to try, time to fail, time to discover.
Works that toured from The Theatre Centre included Sea Sick, Daughter, This is the Point, Prophecy Fog, What it’s Like, and Monday Nights.
August 20, 2026
Performers Jessie Garon, Scott McCabe and Sully Malaeb Proulx. Photo by Kendra Epik The gasp of breath, the startling slap of flesh on flesh, the stamp of foot to floor—these are the sounds of vulnerability and power that score Heaven. Falling on the heels of Ivanochko’s appointment to 100th Class of Guggenheim Fellows, the 20th...
July 22, 2026
“In all of the pieces there are themes of community, connection, and co-dependency and family, land, and nation. And it’s because of, yeah, what I experienced living in my great-grandma’s house when we moved here, with my great-grandma, my grandma, and my mom. In a co-op!” Residency Artist danjelani ellis took some time this June...
