Frontmezzjunkies reports: Factory Theatre Toronto Announces their 2025/26 Season
This season, Factory Theatre transports our audiences with projects and artists who use their expansive creative imaginations to bring you vibrant, entertaining, intimate, and buoyant theatrical works. We are collaborating with companies from across Toronto and beyond, from indie artists to cultural institutions, onstage and off. Factory is digging into our roots as a space of immense and expansive creative output and a spirit of generosity and courage.
Factory brings you entertainment. We bring you innovation.
We bring you joy and terror.
Welcome to our season – we know you’re going to love it here.
– Artistic Director, Mel Hague
Fall Programming
The SummerWorks Performance Festival turns 35 this year, and we’re thrilled to be one of the hosting venues.
This year’s Festival theme, Back to the Future | Forward to the Past invites reflection, imagination, and disruption with bold creative expressions that dive deep into temporality, exploring and questioning the past, present, and future, with a gentle curiosity and a critical ferocity.
In partnership with In Arms Theatre, MENA Collective, and Buddies in Bad Times, we bring you: The Green Line by Makram Ayache.
Two love stories twist together in two Beiruts riven by time and conflict. In 1978, two women share spit on the ends of cigarettes and yearn for tenderness under the tumult of war. In 2018, a foreigner and a local flirt over vodka sodas as their contradictions collect like condensation on the sides of their glasses. Poetic realism braids past and present into the green line of vegetation that bisected the concrete of Lebanon’s capital during the civil war.
The Green Line runs at Buddies in Bad Times this September.
Aluna Theatre’s CAMINOS returns to Factory Theatre to create an intersection for outstanding ideas, and artists who take space and speak loudly. This festival of new work presents fresh, bold proposals in theatre, dance, and interdisciplinary performance in Toronto.
This year, CAMINOS considers the magical space of the “in-between”. A space where contrast, fusion, confusion, intersectionality, stillness, action, past, and present propel fresh movement toward a new path.
Weesageechak Begins to Dance is Native Earth Performing Arts‘ annual two-week festival showcasing new works and works-in-development by Indigenous artists across Turtle Island and beyond.
Following a successful pilot year, Native Earth Performing Arts is ecstatic to bring back the Workshop Stream, a new initiative for projects in early stages of development for artists seeking to explore their project without the pressure of a public presentation. Presented in partnership with Factory Theatre, this year’s Workshop stream will support two Creators from October 13-26, 2025.
We bring you the premiere of Public Consumption this November! A new body horror speculative fiction from Lester Trips (Theatre), the creators of Honey, I’m Home.
A famous actor, cancelled for his cannibal texts and convicted of heinous assaults, is sentenced to read hundreds of thousands of pages of erotic fanfiction with the aim of training a large AI to identify obscenity. Attempts to shorten his sentence plunge him into an augmented-reality auto-sadistic trip through content moderation hell.
Bad Dog Theatre returns to Factory! Holiday! An Improvised Musical is the festive favorite you didn’t know you needed! Inspired by Stephen Sondheim’s Company, this one-of-a-kind musical party is entirely made up on the spot, sparked by your suggestions. Watch as a wildly talented cast creates a dazzling night of improvised vignettes exploring love, work, relationships – and the true meaning of the holiday season. No two shows are ever the same because every night is a new musical. It’s the only holiday celebration that guarantees laughs, surprises, and a whole lot of heart.
All graphics designed by Awake Studio
Spring Season
Here’s a sneak peek of what to expect from us in 2026. Hungry to know more? You’ll just have to keep your eyes peeled for our Spring Zine in the new year!
People of the City
A Bad Dog Theatre production
in association with Factory Theatre
Bonnes Bonnes
Created by Tamara Nguyen and Sophie Gee
Presented by Factory Theatre and Théâtre français de Toronto
An IMM-Permanent Resident
By Neha Poduval and Himanshu Sitlani
A Nautanki Bazaar production
in association with Factory Theatre
Training Enhancement Programs
At Factory Theatre
See you at the theatre!
