About
An indie storefront theatre, where Anything is Possible!
Eldritch Theatre’s Red Sandcastle, at 922 Queen Street East, is an artistic hub where actors, indie theatre companies, magicians, puppeteers, sketch comics, and artists of all kinds can mount shows, rehearse projects, and workshop new creations!
Toronto’s longest operating storefront theatre is also the artistic home of Eldritch Theatre, a company specializing in works of the ghoulish, creepy and uncanny. Eldritch’s administrative team act as Caretakers of the Castle, facilitating rentals for artists seeking to use the space for their own creative endeavours.
Read the PRESS RELEASE here.
Listen to the Indie Theatre Roundtable with The Red Sandcastle on Stageworthy Podcast here.
Eric Woolfe
Caretaker of the Castle
Eric Woolfe is an actor, playwright, puppeteer and magician, and the Artistic Director and founder of Eldritch Theatre which has been horrifying audiences since 1999 using puppetry, live actors, and parlour magic. His work for Eldritch Theatre includes Dora award winning and nominated works such as Space Opera Zero!, The Harrowing of Brimstone McReedy, Frankenstein’s Boy, Madhouse Variations, and The Babysitter. He is resident Dark Arts Professor at Eldritch Theatre’s Sword and Sorcery School, where he is head Dungeon Master and writer of Dungeon and Dragon adventures for the young and young at heart.
Some of his other theatre credits include Old Man and the River (Theatre Direct), The Comedy of Errors (Humber River Shakespeare), The Glass Menagerie, Ghosts (Touchmark Theatre) Rocket & the Queen of Dreams, (Roseneath Theatre). Little Shop of Horrors (Canstage), and Timon in Disney’s The Lion King.
Eldritch Theatre
Resident Theatre Company
The only theatre company in the world to bring you horror, puppets, and magic in one astounding theatrical performance, we make plays that go bump in the night. Eldritch Theatre has won 4 Dora Mavor Awards, and been nominated 25 times. Eldritch also offers youth programming such as puppetry workshops and Dungeons And Dragon storytelling camps for young and older weirdos.
Eldritch Theatre has been creating plays that go bump in the night for over 20 years, and has staged several productions and programs at the Red Sandcastle. It has been the home to Dora Mavor award winner and nominated shows such as Space Opera Zero (Dora Winner 2018), The Harrowing of Brimstone McReedy (twice Dora nominated 2017), Doc Wuthergloom’s Haunted Medicine Show (three times Dora nominated), House at Poe Corner (2016) and Frankenstein’s Boy (2015).
Website: eldritchtheatre.ca