Toronto's Entertainment District hides one of its hardest-working rooms underground. Adelaide Hall occupies the lower level of 250 Adelaide Street West, its entrance tucked down the alley beside 26 Duncan Street - a 475-capacity basement venue where the MRG Group runs live music, DJ nights, club residencies and private events in whatever configuration the night demands. The programming leans emerging: touring indie rock, folk, hip-hop and electronic acts on their first Canadian headline runs sh.....

Arcadia Earth is an immersive art experience in downtown Toronto that leads visitors through a series of themed rooms designed to dazzle the senses while delivering a message about the environment and the impact of human activity on the planet. Originating in New York and brought to Toronto, the attraction combines large-scale installation art, projection, light and sound to create a sequence of richly imagined spaces, many of them built from recycled and repurposed materials, through which gues.....

Founded in 1900 by a group of private citizens as the Art Museum of Toronto, the Art Gallery of Ontario is one of the largest and most distinguished art museums in North America, holding a collection of some ninety thousand works that ranges from the first century to the present day and spans European, Canadian, Indigenous, African, Oceanic and contemporary art. The gallery grew up around the Grange, a historic Georgian house acquired in 1911 that remains part of the complex, and over more than .....

Victorian whisky tank houses hold Toronto's most flexible stage. The Marilyn and Charles Baillie Theatre is the largest room of the Young Centre for the Performing Arts at 50 Tank House Lane, the theatre complex built into Tank Houses 9 and 10 of the 19th-century Gooderham and Worts distillery in the Distillery District. KPMB Architects' celebrated conversion opened on 15 January 2006 as the shared home of Soulpepper Theatre Company and George Brown College's theatre school - four theatres, four.....

The Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto is a specialised museum devoted entirely to footwear, displaying a rotating selection of around a thousand shoes and related objects drawn from a collection of nearly fifteen thousand that spans some four and a half thousand years of human history. The museum grew from the personal collection of Sonja Bata, a member of the family behind the international Bata shoe company, who over decades gathered footwear from around the world out of a conviction that shoes off.....

Toronto's centennial gift to itself grew a proper proscenium house. The Bluma Appel Theatre is the larger of the two auditoriums inside the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts at 27 Front Street East, the city's official project marking Canada's 1967 Centennial, which opened on 2 February 1970 to designs by Gordon S. Adamson and Associates. The room began life as simply "The Theatre," an adaptable 863-seat experiment that could shift between thrust, proscenium and caliper stage formats - flexibilit.....

A 1911 mansion facade fronts one of Toronto's most rebuilt stages. The CAA Theatre at 651 Yonge Street, just south of Bloor in the heart of downtown, began as a Second Empire private residence, was gutted into a movie house called The Victory in 1919, and spent the next seventy years cycling through names - the Embassy from 1934, then the Astor, the Showcase and the Festival, under which it served as a premier venue of the Toronto International Film Festival in the 1970s. Live theatre arrived in.....

Toronto built itself a slice of Miami on a working pier. Cabana Pool Bar opened on 15 June 2013 at 11 Polson Street on Polson Pier, the industrial spit across the ship channel from downtown, launched by nightlife impresario Charles Khabouth of INK Entertainment on grounds with a long entertainment pedigree - the same address housed the sprawling Docks nightclub complex of the 1990s and later the Sound Academy concert hall, which Khabouth rebuilt into the venue Rebel at the end of 2015 as part of.....

A livestock palace that once billed itself the largest building of its kind in the world now hosts the Toronto Maple Leafs' farm team. The Coca-Cola Coliseum at 100 Princes' Boulevard on the Exhibition Place grounds opened to the public on 16 December 1921, a million-dollar agricultural showpiece for the Canadian National Exhibition that took the name Coliseum in 1922 and, after 1926 additions, claimed the largest-structure-under-one-roof title. Its first great spectacle was pugilistic: the John.....

When Toronto's most loved after-hours club closed at its peak, its owners built the sequel a few kilometres north and named it for what follows an ending. CODA at 794 Bathurst Street, on the west side of Bathurst just north of Bloor in the Annex, was opened by Joel Smye and Stephan Philion, the pair behind the underground institution Footwork (2005-2013), in the space that had previously been the Annex Wreckroom rock venue. The first parties ran in late October 2013 and the club opened officiall.....