Crow’s Theatre 2024.25 Season Announcement

May 12, 2024 – June 1, 2025
Streetcar Crowsnest, 345 Carlaw Avenue

Crow’s Theatre, 40th Anniversary Season, soared to new heights, doubling audience and subscribers to over 75,000 attendees — a testament to the growing support for the arts in their community. This wave of enthusiasm swept through Crow’s Theatre season of sold-out productions, culminating in the extraordinary 16-week triumph of Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812. As they look ahead to the 24.25 Season, Crow’s will be spreading its wings, producing a full season of shows at their home in the East End at Streetcar Crowsnest, and reviving some of their most celebrated shows in partnerships with companies across the city. Next season promises something for everyone, with an electric mix of musical theatre, comedy, improv, and premieres of cutting-edge contemporary work.

Crow’s Theatre stages will transform into arenas of aspiration and passion, where dreams are forged, convictions are tested, and their shared humanity is celebrated.

2024.25 Productions

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	seven methods of killing kylie jenner May 12 – May 26, 2024 Obsidian Theatre, in association with Crow’s Theatre, presents seven methods of killing kylie jenner by British playwright Jasmine Lee-Jones. seven methods of killing kylie jenner revolves around close friends Cleo and Kara grappling with the pervasive influence of social media and celebrity culture in their lives. This powerful and provocative play explores ownership of Black bodies, cultural appropriation, social media, and female friendships.
	THE WRONG BASHIR May 21 – June 9, 2024 | TORONTO PREMIERE Playwright and short-story writer Zahida Rahemtulla premiered THE WRONG BASHIR, her playwriting debut, in Vancouver to a sold-out run and critical acclaim in March 2023. She received an Honourable Mention in the Alice Munro Short Story Contest and was longlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize.
	ROSMERSHOLM September 3 – October 6, 2024 | CANADIAN PREMIERE An election looming. A country on the brink. A rabid press baying for blood. At the center of the storm stands John Rosmer, the heir to an influential family dynasty. Enter the mysterious Rebecca West, bringing the winds of change to Rosmersholm with the force of a hurricane. As secrets unravel and loyalties shift, the very foundations of power tremble, and the fate of a nation hangs in the balance.
	COMFORT FOOD September 17 – October 13, 2024 | World Premiere Bette is a popular cooking show host whose young-mom persona is about to expire – both on tv and in real life. Her only son has withdrawn and is spending more and more time in the deep space of the internet. As Bette looks towards the next chapter of her life, she can’t shake the feeling that everything she defines herself by is about to go up in flames. COMFORT FOOD is about sustenance, stellar evolution, and finding your way in the kitchen of life.
	THE BIDDING WAR November 12 – December 15, 2024 | World Premiere The city’s last affordable house is for sale. Heads roll and shrimp tails fly when a frantic, 12-hour bidding war erupts during what was supposed to be a routine open house. Agents turn on buyers, buyers turn on agents, and everything spirals into an uproarious dark comedy of desperation and anxiety.
	BIG STUFF November 12 – December 8, 2024 | World Premiere Celebrated comedy team, Matt Baram (The Umbrella Academy, Painkiller) and Naomi Snieckus (Pretty Hard Cases, Mr. D, The Social) invite you to participate in the unpacking of some big stuff. Channeling their distinct brand of improvisational storytelling (cultivated at The Second City and tested vigorously through their real-life marriage), Matt and Naomi demonstrate the sentimental power of objects, and the transformative potential of finding newfound community in one another.

	WIGHTS January 7 – February 9, 2025 |  World Premiere On the eve of English Professor Anita Knight’s job interview for leadership at Yale’s newly formed Center for Reparative Thought and Justice, a sense of unease hangs in the air. As her friends and husband help Anita prepare for her presentation, their seemingly ordered world begins to crack. A battle for ideological supremacy wages while an unknown future presses against the window, trying to get in. WIGHTS delves into the intricate power of language and its profound influence on our connections, our society, and the very fabric of reality.
	DINNER WITH THE DUCHESS January 14 – February 2, 2025 Fame. Power. Legacy. At the end of a storied career, violin virtuoso Margaret, the Duchess, gives her final interview to a young, savvy reporter. Aided by her long-suffering yet ever-charming husband, Margaret must confront the secrets of her past and face the impossible question: how will she be remembered? This psychological thriller about artistic passion and its cost “hits all the right notes” (Now Toronto).
	TRIDENT MOON March 4 – 30, 2025 | CANADIAN PREMIERE India, 1947. Three Muslim women have been abducted by three Hindu women and all are trapped inside a transport truck as it speeds through a newly divided country. The lines between victim and perpetrator blur in this astonishing real-time political thriller. TRIDENT MOON is an extraordinary look into the lives of everyday people caught in the crossfire.
	A PUBLIC DISPLAY OF AFFECTION March 25 – April 20, 2025 | WORLD PREMIERE Mixing history, comedy, and poignant reflection in equal measure, A PUBLIC DISPLAY OF AFFECTION, Jonathan Wilson’s deeply personal solo show, excavates the lives, loves, and landmarks of his queer youth on the streets of Toronto.
	FLEX April 15 – May 18, 2025 | CANADIAN PREMIERE It’s 1997 and the WNBA is changing the game. Every player on Plainnole’s Lady Train High School basketball team dreams of going pro. But first, they must navigate the pressures of being young, Black, and female in rural Arkansas, where a mistake on the court can become a foul in real life. With the swagger, determination, and adrenaline of a four-quarter game, FLEX celebrates the fierce strength and athleticism of young women and what it means to be going for your shot at greatness.
	A STRANGE LOOP @ THE BAILLIE THEATRE April 22 – June 1, 2025 | CANADIAN PREMIERE Tony Award-winning international sensation A STRANGE LOOP is coming to Toronto! Meet Usher, a Black gay man who’s writing a musical about a Black gay man…who’s also writing a musical about a Black gay man.

About Crow’s Theatre

Resonating with Toronto’s civic, community and cultural milieu – Crow’s Theatre at Streetcar Crowsnest adapts and evolves as the social, economic, and cultural environment of the city adapts and evolves. Crow’s Theatre is distinguished as a preeminent cultural destination for its far-reaching imagination, ideas, exchange, diversity and grassroots belief in how artists and their work can change and sustain the lives of communities. Crow’s Theatre is accessible to people of all backgrounds and ages. Crow’s Theatre is a catalyst in the community focusing on transformative experiences in unexpected places through the universality of the arts.