Ottawa Events Calendar

Cirque du Soleil
2025-07-05 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-07-05 15:00 - 18:00, 2025-07-05 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-07-06 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-07-06 17:00 - 20:30 UTC | Canadian Tire Centre, 1000 Palladium Dr, Ottawa, Ontario, K2V 1A4, Canada
Cirque du Soleil: OVO
Wed July 2nd @ 7 p.m.
Thurs July 3rd @ 7 p.m.
Fri July 4th @ 7 p.m.
Sat July 5th @ 11 a.m.
Sat July 5th @ 3 p.m.
Sat July 5th @ 7 p.m.
Sun July 6th @ 1 p.m.
Sun July 6th @ 5 p.m.
A magnificent ladybug captures the eye of an awkward, unusual insect who has just moved into this lively neighborhood, and the two instantly fall in love. The show plunges the audience into the hidden universe alive at our feet; an ecosystem teeming with life and unseen beings – insects that work, eat, crawl, flutter, feast, fight and court among each other in an ongoing explosion of energy and movement

Odyssey Theatre: The Girl With No Hands
2025-08-13 20:00 - 2025-08-24 22:15 | Odyssey Theatre: The Girl With No Hands, 25 Range Rd, Ottawa, ON K1N 8J4
Escape to an imaginative world under the stars where an unlikely heroine fights to rewrite her fate. On the lush banks of the Rideau River in beautiful Strathcona Park, Odyssey’s 39th season presents the world premiere of The Girl With No Hands — a darkly comic fantasy where dreams awaken new realities.
The Girl With No Hands runs from August 3-24, 2025 in Strathcona Park. Performances are Tuesdays – Sundays at 8pm, with pay-what-you-wish Sunday matinees at 2pm.

Greater North American TheatreSports Assembly
2025-08-15 19:00 - 2025-08-16 21:30 | Greater North American TheatreSports Assembly, 60 Waller St, Ottawa, ON K1N 6E2
Wayward Improv is proud to host the Greater North American TheatreSports Assembly (GNATA)!
Featuring guests from:
– Oakville Improv Theatre (Oakville, ON, CAN)
– MOPCO (Schenectady, NY, USA)
– Contemporary Theatre Company (Wakefield, RI, USA)
Join us at LabO Theatre for two amazing nights of improv with some of our favorite ITI formats: Maestro and TheatreSports (plus a special performance of Space Cowboy)!

The United Nations of Comedy
2025-09-21 20:00 - 21:30 | The United Nations of Comedy, 1385 Woodroffe Ave
Hello Ottawa! Get ready for a night of world-class stand-up comedy the whole family can enjoy! On September 21st at Algonquin Commons Theatre, The United Nations of Comedy brings together a powerhouse lineup of comedians for a Comedy Gala packed with laughter, cultural celebrations, and side-splitting stories. Starring Joe Avati and The Portuguese Kids with special guests Efthimios Nasiopoulos and Leonard Chan and hosting the event is Canadian favourite Ali Hassan.
Each performer delivers their unique perspective and vibrant storytelling, blending sharp wit with hilarious tales of family traditions, cultural quirks, and everyday life. This is comedy at its finest—where diversity shines and laughter unites!

Europa Super Circus
2025-09-25 16:30 - 2025-09-28 18:00 | Europa Super Circus, RioCan Lincoln Heights, 2525 Carlling Ave, Ottawa, ON K2B 7Z2
A Super Circus Experience in Ottawa, ON!
Europa Super Circus is thrilled to be bringing their re-energized and reinvigorated show to Canada for the FIRST TIME! Performances by world-class artists from all over the globe include high-flying aerialists, tight-wire acrobatics, FMX riders in the Wheel of Death, dizzying roller skaters, comedic clowns, and more! Join us for an unforgettable evening of thrilling performances, mesmerizing lights, and whimsical delights under the Big Top. For more information, visit SuperCircus.com.
Ottawa, ON Dates & Showtimes:
Thursday, September 25th at 7:00 PM
Friday, September 26th at 4:30 PM & 7:30 PM
Saturday, September 27th at 1:30 PM, 4:30 PM & 7:30 PM
Sunday, September 28th at 1:30 PM & 4:30 PM
Join us under the Big Top!
RioCan Lincoln Heights
2525 Carlling Ave
Ottawa, ON K2B 7Z2
Tickets and showtimes can be found online at https://supercircus.com/cities/. We will see you there!

Magi-Comedy
2025-09-25 20:00 - 21:30 | Magi-Comedy, Laugh Lounge 61 York Street
Magi-Comedy (Show runs 8:00-9:30, aftershow with the performers until 11:00)
Get ready for a night of magic and comedy like you’ve never seen before! Join us at the Laugh Lounge for an unforgettable experience filled with mind-blowing illusions and side-splitting laughter. Chris, Tavis and Mark will leave you amazed and entertained from start to finish. Don’t miss out on this one-of-a-kind event that will leave you wanting more!
Having performed over 8000 magic shows in his career, Chris Pilsworth knows how to entertain. He’s been called quirky, funny and amazing. His most recent highlights include performing for 11 years for St. Lawrence Cruise Lines, headlining the world-famous Magic Castle in Hollywood, California, and completing a multi-city tour of China, including Beijing and Shanghai.
Mark Montreuil appeared daily across Canada on YTV’s Take Part, inspiring a new generation of magicians. Mark’s passion is performing classic magic in new ways for modern audiences. As a performer with strong improv roots, Mark makes audience participation a key, and very funny, part of his show.
Quickly proving he’s one of the comics in Ottawa, Tavis Maplesden has been keeping audiences rolling in the eyes and laughing just to keep from crying! Whether it’s his crazy takes on life in the world or his insights into everyday experiences, Tavis is telling it like it is! He’ll give you a show you’ll ever forget!

Sarah Millican: Late Bloomer
2025-09-27 20:00 - 23:59 | TD Place, 1015 Bank Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 3W7, Canada
KNOW BEFORE YOU GO | ABOUT
AWARD-WINNING COMEDIAN AND WRITER
SARAH MILLICAN
RETURNS TO OTTAWA WITH HER NEW TOUR
LATE BLOOMER
Outback Presents and Chambers Touring are excited to announce that well-loved comedian Sarah Millican returns to Canada with her brand-new stand-up show Sarah Millican: Late Bloomer. Following her previously sold-out tours, this is Sarah’s third time touring Canada, expanding her footprint to Canadian audiences from coast to coast and visiting 16 cities!
In her latest show, audiences will learn that when Sarah Millican was a child, she wouldn’t say boo to a goose. Quiet at school, not many friends, no boobs til she was 16.
Now? NOW she is loud, with good friends, a cracking rack and goose booing all over the shop. In Late Bloomer, Sarah’s brand-new stand-up show, she explores how one became the other. Plus, lots of stuff about dinners and lady gardens.
Come along and join Sarah at The Arena at TD Place in Ottawa!

KNOW BEFORE YOU GO
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About Sarah Millican
Sarah is one the UK’s and, in recent years, the world’s most well-loved touring comedians. Her most recent tour Bobby Dazzler was seen by over 355,00 people around the globe when it came to a close with a second run of dates in the USA in Spring 2023. A hard-working live performer Sarah has toured with six live shows since 2010, which in total, have been seen by in excess of 1.3 million people.
Away from her live work, Sarah is known for hosting three series of her critically acclaimed BBC2 series The Sarah Millican Television Programme, for which she received two BAFTA nominations and is a familiar face on primetime shows such as QI, Live at the Apollo, The Royal Variety Performance as well as Series 14 of Taskmaster on Channel 4.
Sarah is a Sunday Times bestselling author with her debut book, How To Be Champion, and in 2016 founded the Standard Issue podcast – a smart, funny magazine-style show made for women by women. In November 2019 she launched her own YouTube channel which has amassed 400,000 subscribers and over 66 million views.

Desi Comedy Show
2025-10-03 22:00 - 23:30 | Desi Comedy Show, 220 Elgin St #2, Ottawa, ON K2P 1L7
🔥 Ottawa, are you ready? 🔥
Two of Toronto’s funniest Desi Boyz, Jwalit Bharwani & Harv Khatow are bringing an all-Hinglish standup comedy show straight to your city!
This isn’t just comedy—it’s every WhatsApp family group, every dramatic Bollywood scene, every cricket heartbreak, and every shaadi ka rishta awkward moment rolled into one night of non-stop laughter.
From Ammi’s taunts to Papa’s politics, from Bollywood dialogues you’ve heard a thousand times to that one cousin who thinks he’s Virat Kohli but plays like Inzamam-ul-Haq, no topic is safe.
👀 Expect:🎬 Bollywood-level drama (minus the item songs… maybe).🏏 Cricket references only true desis will get.🍛 Spicy masala takes on family, relationships, and growing up brown.😂 The kind of desi nostalgia that’ll make you laugh so hard, you’ll WhatsApp your relatives in India about it.
These comics have been seen at Just For Laughs, Yuk Yuk’s, Roast Battle Toronto, and Absolute Comedy—but this time, they’re keeping it 100% HINDLISH for the culture.
🎟 Tickets are selling faster than hot jalebis at Diwali—don’t wait. Get yours now and be part of the funniest desi night Ottawa has ever seen!

Alberta Number One
2025-11-15 14:45 - 16:15 | Alberta Number One, Bytowne Cinema, 325 Rideau Street, Ottawa, ON K1N 5Y4
Join us for a special screening featuring a Q&A with director Alexander Carson!
An eccentric documentary crew treks across the vast roadways of Alberta, Canada, to document monuments, museums, and other roadside curios. Armed with only a loose idea of the project’s final form, the wayward director struggles to manage a slew of messy personal entanglements and rivalries embroiling her collaborators. They look for meaning in the landscape, but their search turns inward as they’re inspired to reckon with their own lives.
Directed with a light touch, this charming cross-country odyssey is part revisionist Western and part road movie. Punctuated by moments of extraordinary tenderness and unexpected violence, it invokes poetry, magic, and prayer to imagine a radical, caring form of wildness on the Canadian frontier.
Directed by
Alexander Carson
Starring
Liz Peterson, Bebe Buckskin, Kris Demeanor, Benjamin Carson

Jurassic Quest x Brick Fest Live
2025-11-28 12:00 - 2025-11-30 17:00 | Jurassic Quest x Brick Fest Live, EY Centre Hall 2 & 3 4899 Uplands Drive Ottawa, ON
🦖 Jurassic Quest is ROARING into Ottawa!
Step into a world where dinosaurs come alive! From towering giants to adorable baby dinos, your family will walk beside incredible creatures, hear them roar, and see them move just as they did millions of years ago.
The adventure doesn’t stop there — kids can become junior paleontologists as they dig for fossils, ride life-sized dinosaurs, train raptors, and explore our new LEGO®-themed play zones, where prehistoric fun meets creative building!
🎟️ What You’ll Experience:
🦕 Meet and interact with adorable baby dinosaurs
🔦 Dig and discover ancient fossils
🦖 Ride life-sized, walking dinosaurs
💫 Explore LEGO®-themed play zones, inflatables, crafts, and Glow Zone fun
🏎️ Race at the 35-foot Dino Derby Track
🦴 Discover real fossils, including T. rex teeth and a Triceratops horn
🎭 Enjoy the interactive Baby Dinosaur Show and Raptor Training Experience
💡 Helpful Tips:
1️⃣ Strollers and wagons are welcome.
2️⃣ Bring socks for the inflatables.
3️⃣ Bring your camera 📷 — there are tons of amazing photo moments!
4️⃣ Jurassic Quest is a go-at-your-own-pace, self-guided experience — most families stay 1–2 hours.
5️⃣ Sensory-friendly hours are offered Saturday mornings, 8–9 AM, with lower sound and crowd levels for our guests who prefer a gentler experience.
Get ready for North America’s #1 dinosaur adventure — perfect for families, kids, and anyone who loves prehistoric fun! 🌈🦖
Explore show times, tickets, and sensory options here →
👉 https://www.jurassicquest.com/events/PKCZ14

Oriental Legend Dance Drama
2025-12-18 19:30 - 2025-12-20 21:30 | Oriental Legend Dance Drama, 100 Rue Laurier, Gatineau, QC K1A 0M8
From December 18–20, 2025, the acclaimed dance drama Oriental Legend makes its Canadian debut at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, minutes from downtown Ottawa. Presented by the China Arts and Entertainment Group and performed by the renowned Beijing Dance Drama & Opera Theatre, this limited three-day run brings a dazzling blend of dance, storytelling, and cultural artistry to the National Capital Region.
Set along the ancient Silk Road, Oriental Legend follows an epic tale of courage, unity, and friendship brought to life through breathtaking choreography, stunning costumes, and immersive music. After over 110 sold-out performances in China and more than 600 million online views, this holiday production arrives as a must-see experience for audiences of all ages.

Hansel and Gretel GO West
2025-12-20 14:00 - 2026-01-04 16:00 | Hansel and Gretel GO West, 1233 Wellington St W
OttawaMusicals is back at the Great Canadian Theatre Company with their 9th annual panto—a rollicking family musical adventure inspired by the classic story of Hansel and Gretel, now with a wild west twist! Hidden Valley Ranch is home to a colourful cast of characters: a tough-as-nails sheriff, a whip-smart outlaw called The Kid, a suspiciously charming new farmhand, and a pair of clever kids always ready for mischief.
When a pint-sized bounty hunter with a sweet tooth and a faulty map stumbles onto the ranch, chaos ensues. The kids’ woodland escapades—complete with beavers, bear dung, and plenty of laughs—are just the beginning. Meanwhile, flashbacks reveal a shadowy deal between a mysterious new arrival and a certain gingerbread-loving local, whose house might just be the sweetest trap in the valley.
With slapstick humour, toe-tapping songs, and plenty of audience participation, this musical is perfect for the whole family. Join OttawaMusicals at the GCTC for a wild, heartwarming ride through the west—where surprises, silliness, and fun await at every turn!
Visit www.OttawaMusicals.com for a complete list of performance dates and showtimes.

bol, brown boy, bol
2026-03-26 19:00 - 2026-03-27 20:30 | bol, brown boy, bol, 101 Centrepointe Dr, Nepean, ON K2G 5K7
bol, brown boy, bol is a cheeky, heartfelt solo show about Nawaaz’s journey of reclaiming his voice and cultural inheritance through learning tabla, a northern Indian percussion instrument.
Twenty years of being a “coconut” has caught up to Nawaaz, who’s crashed into a dual crisis of identity and faith. Divine intervention sends him a musical Guru, who guides him on a journey towards self-acceptance and love. Directed by Tiffany Wu, bol, brown boy, bol offers a rich musical landscape merging Indian classical music with 90s Bollywood nostalgia, grunge, rap, and hip hop. Weaving storytelling with the rhythms of tabla, creator and performer Nawaaz speaks up about the impact of Canadian racism on his identity and shares his story of finding his way back to himself.

LOL Ottawa Comedy Festival
2026-07-23 19:00 - 2026-07-26 00:00 | LOL Ottawa Comedy Festival, ByWard Market
Get ready for the inaugural LOL Ottawa Comedy Festival, three unforgettable nights of stand-up celebrating the best of Canadian comedy! Taking place July 23-25, 2026, across some of Ottawa’s favourite venues, including Laugh Lounge, Sky Lounge, Lowertown Brewery, Heart & Crown, and Speakeasy. This exclusive All-Canadian Comedy Program features headliners K. Trevor Wilson, Steve Patterson & The Associates, and Che Durena, alongside specialty showcases spotlighting French, Indigenous, and LGBTQ+ comedic voices from across the country. Shows run throughout each evening starting as early as 7:00 PM, with something for every comedy fan.

The Great Gatsby
2026-09-08 19:30 - 2026-09-13 22:00 | The Great Gatsby, National Arts Centre - 1 Elgin Street, Ottawa
The Great Gatsby is a “Broadway extravaganza that explodes with life and energy” (Entertainment Weekly). Based on the classic American novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Tony Award®-winning new musical is an unforgettable journey of love, wealth and tragedy that brings the Roaring Twenties to life on stage. Directed by Marc Bruni (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical), this story of extravagance and longing features choreography by Dominique Kelley (So You Think You Can Dance), a book by Kait Kerrigan (The Mad Ones) and a jazz- and pop-influenced original score by Jason Howland (Little Women) and Nathan Tysen (Paradise Square).

Jimmy Carr 2026 Laughs Funny Tour
2026-10-22 19:30 - 21:30 | Jimmy Carr 2026 Laughs Funny Tour, The Arena at TD Place - 1015 Bank St, Ottawa, ON K1S 3W7
Outback Presents and Chambers Touring are proud to announce that global comedy superstar Jimmy Carr is returning to Canada with his biggest national tour ever. The brand-new show, Jimmy Carr: Laughs Funny, will hit an unprecedented 31 cities across the country, a first for an international comedian. The tour will play coast to coast kicking off in Victoria on September 16, 2026 with 5 additional British-Columbia stops including Abbotsford for the first time on September 17, Vancouver on September 18, Kelowna on September 19, for the first time in Kamloops on September 20 and Prince George on September 21. Tickets go on-sale Friday, December 5 at 10 AM at jimmycarr.com.
Known worldwide for his lightning-quick wit, dark one-liners and unmistakable laugh, Jimmy Carr remains one of the most successful and best-selling comedians on the planet. A master of razor-sharp humour, he has toured to over 40 countries, sold millions of tickets, and continues to be one of the most streamed stand-ups of the last decade. His most recent tour, Terribly Funny 2.0, surpassed one million tickets worldwide and saw him perform 293 shows across 145 cities in a single year—cementing his reputation as one of the hardest-working acts in comedy.
Following his sold-out 2023 tour, Jimmy Carr returns to Canada with his fifth and most ambitious Canadian tour yet, Jimmy Carr: Laughs Funny. Alongside time-honoured cities such as Toronto, Vancouver, Montréal, Calgary, Ottawa, Halifax and Winnipeg, this tour will bring Jimmy to new markets he has never performed in before, expanding his Canadian footprint further than ever.
“A comedy hero for our times.”
The Guardian
“Jimmy Carr is a world-class comedian.”
The Independent
A dominant force in UK television, Jimmy has fronted some of the country’s biggest comedy institutions, including Channel 4’s 8 Out of 10 Cats, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, and The Big Fat Quiz of the Year, as well as Comedy Central’s Roast Battle UK and Your Face or Mine. He is a staple on QI and A League of Their Own, has performed at The Royal Variety Performance three times, and was a judge on all series of BBC1 entertainment series I Can See Your Voice. Most recently, Jimmy hosted the first UK series of Last One Laughing, which has been a viral hit for Amazon and is in production on series 2. His latest series, Jimmy Carr’s Am I The A**hole?, is currently airing weekly on Comedy Central and Paramount+.
In North America, Jimmy is one of the most recognizable UK comedy voices. He became the first British comedian to sign a Netflix stand-up deal, releasing four hit specials—Funny Business, Best Of Ultimate Gold Greatest Hits, His Dark Material on HBO, and Natural Born Killer. The latter debuted in 2024, reaching the Top 10 in 29 countries and earning 2.3 million viewing hours in its first week. He also created the Netflix panel show The Fix and has appeared on The Tonight Show, The Late Late Show, and Late Night with Conan O’Brien.
Jimmy is also a bestselling author whose memoir Before & Laughter was praised for its honesty, insight, and humour, following his earlier book The Naked Jape.
