THE MASTER PLAN is once again proving to be incredibly popular! The show has settled in well at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts, with audiences packing the house on a nightly basis. You can now catch the award-winning farce about the battle between big tech and big government until January 12. Tickets are selling fast—don’t wait to secure your seats.

Sidewalk Labs: "We looked all over the world for the perfect place to bring this vision to life, and we found it here in Toronto."

A biting satire about the stunning failure to build a smart city in Toronto. Adapted from award-winning writer and The Globe and Mail journalist Josh O’Kane’s best-selling book  Sideways: The City Google Couldn’t Buy, the play takes us behind closed doors and reveals the corporate drama, epic personalities, and iconic Canadian figures involved in the messy affair between Sidewalk Labs and Waterfront Toronto.

In 2017, when the public agency Waterfront Toronto decided to put up a parcel of land for development (just on the other side of Lakeshore Blvd from where Soulpepper sits), Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s Alphabet Inc., swept in with a proposal to create the city of the future. But the project quickly started to fall apart from uneasy partnerships, rigid local politics, and an overwhelmingly negative public response.

The Master Plan exposes the hubris of big tech, the feebleness of government, and the dangers of public consultation with sharp wit and insightful commentary.

PS. Your ticket to THE MASTER PLAN also includes free entry to The Distillery Winter Village, running now until January 5.

For tickets visit www.youngcentre.ca.