Crossroads Theatre

This Saturday, May 2nd is your last chance to catch a public performance of The Assembly before our spring tour wraps! 🌱

We have two shows at Weston Common to round out an amazing school tour - it’s been wonderful connecting with student audiences across the GTA. Don’t miss your chance to be part of this innovative, interactive theatre-meets-boardgame experience!

These special performances are Pay What You Can or Free, and snacks will be provided. 😋

💡 The Assembly 💡
🗓️ Saturday, May 2nd
⏰ 11AM & 2PM showtimes
📍Weston Common, 34 John Street, York, ON
💫 Recommended for ages 10+!

During every performance, audience members form The Assembly, where they are invited to work together to balance their city’s current needs with the needs of future generations. This show is a fun, cooperative 75-minute challenge that gives audience members the chance to collaborate, deepen their empathy, and understand their impact on future generations.

Head over to the link in our bio below to save your spot!

On World Theatre Day 2026, we’re thinking of the artists and audiences around the world that aren’t able to safely create and witness theatre due to war and other forms of oppression. Suppressing art and culture is a tool of erasure. In Canada, there is a long history of banning Indigenous culture and languages as a means of colonialism and genocide.

As theatre artists, we stand in solidarity with theatre artists in Palestine, where cultural production is under direct attack. In Jenin, in the West Bank, members of artistic leadership were violently arrested without charge in 2023. The Freedom Theatre was forced to close its doors in early 2025, when the refugee camp where it is located was attacked and occupied by the Israeli army. In November 2025, in Jerusalem was raided during a performance of “Dreams Under the Olive Tree,” a musical featuring children and teenagers, leaving audience members and performers in tears.

We know groups directly complicit in Israel’s occupation & genocide in Palestine are funding theatre in Canada. These relationships contribute to art-washing of Israel’s genocide, censorship of Palestinian artists and those in solidarity with them, and most egregiously - the dehumanization of Palestinian people.

In conversation with Canadian theatre artists in 2026, Rawand Arqawi, Artistic Producer of Fragments Theatre in Jenin, said, “Palestinian artists do not create from outside the reality we depict; we live under occupation ourselves. We face the suppression of our freedom of expression, including arrest, harassment, and intimidation, as well as severe restrictions on movement and travel. And yet, we persist in our cultural work as an act of resilience and resistance.”

From Turtle Island to Palestine, Sudan to the Congo, Iran to Ukraine, and beyond, we stand together to protect the human right to create and enjoy theatre.

This World Theatre Day, we ask you to:
- Share/repost this message
- Learn more about & advocate for the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)
- Support Palestinian artists and theatres: