What The Festival
About the event
What The Festival, an annual celebration of all things Drag, Clown and Puppetry, is proud to announce feature programming for their third annual festival taking place September 24-27, 2026 in Youngplace at Sweet Action Theatre, and Small World Music Centre in Toronto. What The Festival is a wild, live theatre festival presenting the best in 'strange-making' live entertainment. The 2026 festival will host two performances each of Hansal and Geetal by Two2Mango, Bubkus by Jesse Buck, and Drag Me To The Opera with Aida Cupcake. On September 26 WTF will host two exclusive opportunities with Jamie Shannon - the co-creator of the cult favourites Nanalan’ and Mr. Meaty - to learn how Jamie built a career around a wonderfully peculiar skill: making people forget that the thing they’re watching is made of foam, fabric and somebody’s hand.