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Toronto, Ontario
Toronto's queer theatre and Tallulah's Cabaret, since 1979.
Buddies in Bad Times is the largest and longest-running queer theatre in North America, founded in 1979 and staging its first show in a former brewery on Queen Street East before settling into its current home at 12 Alexander Street, just off Church, in 1994. A full season runs from new plays and cabaret to the long-running Rhubarb festival of experimental work, with queer and trans artists at the center of nearly everything on the bill. It functions as much as a community space as a stage. The in-house Tallulah's Cabaret hosts club nights, drag, and dance parties that pull a crowd well beyond traditional theatregoers, and the lobby bar is a low-key spot before or after a show. For a traveler, it's the rare place to catch genuinely boundary-pushing queer performance rather than a touring production, and it sits a two-minute walk from the bars of the Church-Wellesley Village if you want to make a night of it.
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