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.....

Exhibition Place added a music hall to its midway. Annabel's Music Hall at 200 Princes' Boulevard, on the grounds of Toronto's Exhibition Place next to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, is a 750-capacity music and entertainment venue operated by the MRG Group - one of Canada's largest independent live-entertainment and hospitality companies - built to give the lakeside grounds a genuine club-scale room alongside their theatres, arenas and festival lawns. The programming promise is deliberately broad.....

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.....

Canada's first soccer-specific stadium grew from bargain build to World Cup stage. BMO Field opened at Exhibition Place on Toronto's lakeshore in April 2007, a 62.9-million-dollar, 20,000-seat venue built on the site of the demolished Exhibition Stadium to serve two masters at once: the FIFA U-20 World Cup that Canada hosted that summer, and Toronto FC, Major League Soccer's first Canadian franchise, whose home debut on 28 April 2007 launched the supporter culture that made the south end's flag-.....

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.....

Perched on a hill overlooking downtown Toronto, Casa Loma is a magnificent Gothic Revival mansion that ranks among Canada's most beloved heritage attractions. Completed in 1914 as the private home of the financier Sir Henry Pellatt, the castle was an extraordinary undertaking for its time, complete with towers, secret passages, stables and vast gardens, and although its original owner's fortunes faded, the building endures as a window onto a bygone age of grand ambition. Today the castle operat.....