We're excited to proudly announce a Creative Collaboration Initiative between Soulpepper, The Musical Stage Company, Obsidian Theatre, Bad Hats Theatre and The Toronto Fringe Festival! 

This Creative Collaboration Initiative focuses on community-building, shared capacity and creative cross-pollination, while allowing each organization to retain its unique artistic identity and autonomy. In practice, the initiative will include co-productions and presentations at Soulpepper Theatre, co-commissioning of new works, audience development and co-marketing initiatives, and a commitment for each partner company to amplify the work of the others. Each company will continue to present their own productions at any venue they choose and be free to collaborate with any other company.  

Several collaborative projects are already underway, including:

• The Toronto Fringe Festival creating a new festival hub at Soulpepper Theatre starting in 2025, with future plans to activate the Historic Distillery District and surrounding areas. 

• Building on the success of Three Sisters in February 2024, Obsidian Theatre and Soulpepper Theatre are co-producing the World Premiere of Table For Two by Akosua Amo-Adem in early 2025,

• Alongside Crow’s Theatre and TO Live, The Musical Stage Company and Soulpepper are presenting the Canadian Premiere of A Strange Loop in spring 2025,

• Following the incredible success of several productions since 2017, including the multi-award-winning Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan, Bad Hats is developing a soon to be announced new production to be presented in late 2025.

The Creative Collaboration Initiative is an open invitation to Toronto audiences to discover some of Canada’s most exciting theatrical works by some of our city’s leading companies and build a new model for collaboration that will serve the arts sector for years to come.