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.....

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.....

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 purpose-built concert venue in Toronto's east end, History opened in 2021 as a modern mid-sized music hall created through a partnership between a global concert promoter and the city's most famous musical export. Set on Queen Street East in the lively Beaches neighbourhood, the venue was designed from the ground up around the live-music experience, quickly establishing itself as one of the most sought-after rooms of its size in the country. The hall holds around two and a half thousand peopl.....

A black crystal chandelier hangs over the dancefloor, a glass solarium ceiling retracts over the terrace, and the DJ booth is upholstered in tufted leather. Noir is the house-and-techno room on the second floor of Rebel, the waterfront entertainment complex at 11 Polson Street in Toronto's Port Lands. The address has deep nightlife roots: the building opened as the Docks Nightclub in 1996, became Sound Academy in 2007, and re-emerged in October 2016 as Rebel after a 10-million-dollar renovation.....

The address has been Toronto's biggest club under three names - The Docks, Sound Academy, and since 2016, Rebel. The venue at 11 Polson Street occupies a Port Lands pier on the inner harbour, its windows framing the downtown skyline across the water - a view that has always been half the booking pitch. The Docks opened in 1996 as a sprawling waterfront entertainment complex; the concert operation was relaunched as Sound Academy in 2007 and spent a decade as the city's default big-room stop, hos.....

Canada's first super-suburban photoplay palace has outlived every rival that ever renamed it. The Danforth Music Hall at 147 Danforth Avenue in Riverdale opened on August 18, 1919, as Allen's Danforth Theatre, built by the Allen brothers' cinema chain in the construction boom that followed the Prince Edward Viaduct's opening across the Don Valley. The names track Toronto's century: the Century Theatre from 1929 under B and F Theatres, the Titania from 1970 serving the neighbourhood's Greek comm.....