Mac Rating: 5.00 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:33:00

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: all genres of music, one-off events and ongoing club nights, backed by world-class sound, lighting and LED video production that outfits the room for DJ-driven nights as comfortably as live bands. The box office shares the Queen Elizabeth Theatre's entrance on Princes' Boulevard - look for the AdmitONE sign, MRG's house ticketing platform - opening half an hour before doors on show nights, with advance tickets online. The Exhibition Place setting solves the practical questions at scale: roughly 8,000 parking spots spread across the grounds with a Green P lot steps from the entrance, streetcar and GO transit connections at Exhibition Station, and the lakeshore's biggest event neighbours - BMO Field, Coca-Cola Coliseum, the CNE each summer - keeping the precinct alive year-round. For MRG the room slots between its bar-scale and theatre-scale Toronto holdings, giving touring acts and local promoters a mid-size floor with festival-grounds infrastructure around it. For audiences the room fills a real gap on the west side of the core: acts outgrowing the Queen Street clubs but not yet ready for History or the Coliseum get a purpose-built floor with festival-grounds logistics, and club-night crowds get production values usually reserved for bigger rooms. MRG's cross-country booking network - the company also runs Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto rooms plus the AdmitONE platform - keeps the calendar fed in both directions.