February 13 – 23, 2025
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander St.
Back for a 46th year, Rhubarb Festival transforms Buddies into a hotbed of experimentation, with artists challenging our notions of what art-making and art-watching can be. As Canada’s longest-running new works festival, Rhubarb is the place to encounter the most adventurous ideas in performance and to catch familiar and unfamiliar artists venturing into uncharted territory.
Rhubarb 2025 runs February 13 – 23, starting at 7 PM each night. Your ticket gets you into all of the performances for that evening.
Due to limited capacity, Thursday’s performances have two ticketing options. The 7 PM ticket includes access to Myung-Sun Kim, Jody Chan, and Ness Lee’s piece, Super Queer Social (a lower capacity event where audiences will be unmasked to eat) as well as Publik Universal Frxnd + Louwrien Wijers and Mars Alexander’s pieces at 9 PM. The 9 PM ticket provides access to the latter two.
About Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
Established in 1979, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is Toronto’s leading destination for artistically rigorous alternative theatre and a world leader in developing queer voices and stories for the stage. Buddies offers a year-round program that includes a full season of queer theatre, new works festivals, artist residencies, and intergenerational training and education initiatives. In its 40-year history Buddies has welcomed over one million people into its home in the heart of Toronto’s queer village and has premiered over 1,000 new works for the stage, making it the largest and longest-running queer theatre company in the world.
