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.

This year's line-up includes:
Judy Rebick (Keynote)
Donna Grantis Band (music)
Shakura S'Aida (music)
Judith Thompson with a SICK collective member (theatre)
Alejandra Ribera (music)
Chelsea Manders (comedy)
Lara Bozabalian (spoken word)
Julia Aplin (dance)
and Guiomar Campbell and company as our House Band

A 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Finalist and winner of the prestigious 2002/2003 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Yellowman centers around the relationship between Eugene, a light-skinned black man, and Alma, a dark-skinned black woman. Yet this play 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.

In the culmination of this week-long experimental masterclass, ten provocative directors present their distinct vision of Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad. Led by renowned world stage directors Yael Farber and Josette Bushell-Mingo, director of the acclaimed London and National Arts Centre productions, the presentation of this epic drama features an exciting ensemble of actors courtesy of The Shaw Festival.

Serious Money established 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.

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. An exhilarating and radical bedlam of eternal damnation, critics are calling Collier’s No Exit, “Brilliant…The bravest theatrical ride I’ve been on this year.” - Globe and Mail

A 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Finalist and winner of the prestigious 2002/2003 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Yellowman centers around the relationship between Eugene, a light-skinned black man, and Alma, a dark-skinned black woman. Yet this play 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.

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