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2023-2024 season

Indigenous Theatre

Indigenous Theatre welcomes you back to experience an incredible season of Indigenous stories and artistry with works as beautiful as auntie’s beaded moccasins.
2023-2024 season

French Theatre

This season is filled with offerings that highlight our capacity to tackle life’s most difficult challenges and welcome its most wonderful gifts.
2023-2024 Season

English Theatre

Nina Lee Aquino’s inaugural season is a collection of curiosities, perspectives, real and imagined histories, and possible futures. Join us for theatre that celebrates strength, optimism and joy.

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Theatre packages & series

NAC English Theatre Hip Hop Theatre Festival January 31 - February 10, 2024
Curated by Rose-Ingrid Benjamin with Nina Lee Aquino and NAC Popular Music and Variety Emerging in the 1970s from disenfranchised Black...
Broadway Broadway Across Canada
Celebrating 25 years of Broadway, this season delivers a year of premieres and fan favourites. Broadway Across Canada is delighted to launch...
The Feeling of Free
Some of our best shows aren’t on the stage this summer. They are in and around the NAC, suspended in our lobby, floating down the...
Stage Series
Take a seat in Southam Hall and experience beloved classics performed by the NAC Orchestra or your favourite artists. Visit the Babs Asper...
NAC French Theatre En famille
This season, a crowd of imaginations in full flight will take over the space and paint it in a thousand colours. A gigantic lantern/stage, a...
Create your own Enfance/jeunesse 2 or more events for 15% off
This season, French Theatre offers an array of family-friendly shows unfolding like a big beautiful open dream. Choose two or more plays to...
NAC French Theatre Offre ado
Signs of the times 14- to 18-year-olds: Come leave your mark! The anthropologists have spoken: the first humans did NOT live...
NAC French Theatre Grand public
Reality hasn’t yet taken dreams hostage. Come and face—and above all, dream—the world with us. You’ll see and hear a...
Create your own French Theatre 3 or more events for 15% off
Design your own customized experience: put together your own series of three or more shows, and save 15%. No restrictions—you get to...
Create your own English Theatre 3 or more events for 15% off
Create a custom-made theatre experience by choosing 3 or more plays from our full season lineup. Pick the shows that suit you, and your...
Create your own Indigenous Theatre 3 or more events for 15% off
Join us as we celebrate Indigenous leaders, artists, and storytellers—sharing stories, histories, and perspectives. Awe-inspiring...
NAC English Theatre Grand Acts of Great Hope
As we edge closer to a new normal, a powerful sense of hope is surging. To celebrate each step we take, NAC English Theatre is bringing...

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