Thirteen shows, five days, two performance spaces, one venue: an experience of unhinged intensity and eclectic performance art that is truly unique to the world of Rhubarb!.
Feb 12-16, 2025
The Rhubarb! Festival is Buddies at its rawest: a hotbed of unruly creatives queering what it means to make and experience art. Canada’s longest-running genre-bending live arts festival has brought you wrestling, space opera, chainsaw-wielding teddy bears, bathroom Shakespeare, clown sisters, and cake. It’s intentional, well-crafted chaos.
It’s raw, unhinged, and adventurous performance work that can only be seen at Buddies in Bad Times.
This year’s festival includes two international pieces: Transpophagic Manifest by Renata Carvalho, coming to Buddies from Brazil, and OUT by Ray Young, from the UK, both presented in partnership with Vancouver’s PuSh Festival.
Rhubarb! 46 (2/12/25-2/16/25)
Buddies in Bad Times is at 12 Alexander St, Toronto, ON M4Y 1B4, Toronto.
Rhubarb! 46 (2/12/25-2/16/25)
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Beautiful: The Carole King Musical by Brampton Music Theatre
The Rose (4/3 - 4/6) | |
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Alan Cumming & Ari Shapiro: Och & Oy! A Considered Cabaret
The Rose Theatre (3/21 - 3/21) | |
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As You Like It
Stratford Festival (5/3 - 10/24)
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House of Stars Presents Broadway Sitzprobe Experience!
House of Stars Presents "Broadway Sitzprobe Experience!" (6/5 - 6/17) | ||
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Carrie: The Musical
The Singer’s Theatre (8/15 - 8/17) | |
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ACT Presents: Menopause the Musical
Algonquin Commons Theatre (4/29 - 4/29) | |
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with you and without you
Jane Mallett Theatre St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts (3/22 - 3/22) | |
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Red
The Theatre Centre (3/28 - 4/6) | |
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Theatre Unlimited Performing Arts Presents Oliver
Meadowvale Theatre (4/25 - 5/4) | |
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