The Toronto Stage Company has announced the signing of a lease agreement that reopens one of the city’s most beloved performance venues.
It means that Toronto’s unique dance oriented performing space will once again be opening the doors to audiences after a disappointing closure earlier this year.
The facility formerly known as the Fleck Dance Theatre, located in the Queens Quay Terminal building (207 Queens Quay West) was managed by the Harbourfront Centre under a lease agreement since 1983. In early 2025, Harbourfront Centre announced that the lease would not be renewed, due largely to economic pressures and under-use of the facility.
The Fleck Dance Theatre had become home base for many of the city’s dance companies, and when it closed officially on March 31, 2025, left presenters scrambling to find alternative venues.
The name itself was transferred to the theatre within the Harbourfront Centre, next door at 235 Queens Quay West, which was renamed The Fleck at Harbourfront Centre Theatre.
The Toronto Stage Company has stepped into the breach, signing a ten-year lease agreement that stabilizes the situation for the city’s dance companies. The company made the welcome announcement today.
The Theatre will reopen in December 2025 with the new name of The Terminal Theatre. Designed for dance in a traditional proscenium theatre format, the facility holds up to 446 audience members.
“As a venue primarily used for dance, we were not familiar with The Fleck when we heard the announcement of its closing last November” said Jon Chaters, Founder of The Toronto Stage Company in a statement.
“However, the more we learned about the space, the more it seemed like a fit for us. 365 days since the announcement of the closure I’m pleased to announce the reopening.”
The Terminal Theatre will become home to The Toronto Stage Company, who will be presenting their annual season of four to six plays and musicals there beginning in September 2026. Ahead of that schedule, the company will present Jason Robert Browns’ intimate musical The Last Five Years to kick off the new year in January 2026. The Toronto Stage Company was founded in 2017 by John Chaters. Previous productions include God of Carnage, and Sketchy Adventures.
Luke Marty will direct The Last Five Years, a play that delves into the five year relationship and marriage between rising novelist Jamie and struggling actress Cathy. Each perspective is told, Jamie’s from beginning to end, while Cathy’s is depicted from the end of the marriage backwards to the beginning.
The theatre will also be made available to dance companies throughout the city, and the very first performances in the venue include the seasonal favourite WINTERSONG — dances for a sacred season by Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre from December 12 to 14.
WINTERSONG 2025’s program includes:
“The Terminal Theatre has been home to CCDT since 1983, and to our solstice-themed production, WINTERSONG — dances for a sacred season, since 1988. With WINTERSONG’s traditional December run, the honour has fallen to our company of extraordinary next-generation dance artists to reopen this space to next-generation audiences from schools across the City, prior to our public run. How fitting that the program’s theme of finding light amid the growing dark will first touch those young people who now stand to inherit and to enliven and to preserve this miraculously re-mounted jewel on the waterfront,” said Deborah Lundmark, Artistic Director of Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre.
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