Founded in 1998 and member of Maison Théâtre since 2007, Théâtre Tout à Trac is well known by Quebec audiences for such successful productions as L’Oiseau Vert, commedia dell’arte … and La Princesse Turandot, winner of numerous audience awards and awarded the Masque for Best Script Adaptation in 2006.
Alice in Wonderland, created in 2008, is the first young audience production of the company. This unique adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic and winner of the Acadie-RIDEAU Award in 2008, counts to this day more than 633 performances, for more than 201 000 spectators, in French and English, throughout Canada, the United States, Asia and the Middle East.
Theater can flourish anywhere. In 2009, Tout à Trac introduces its first street theater production, Les Vieilles (The Old Ladies), performed more than a hundred times in Quebec.
MÜNCHHAUSEN, les machineries de l’imaginaire (MUNCHAUSEN, the Machinery of the Imagination), is created at Théâtre Denise-Pelletier in Montréal in January 2011. The show has since toured in Quebec and has been presented 75 times to more than 44,000 spectators. The production is available for international touring.
PINOCCHIO, Tout à Trac’s second young audience production, co-produced with Places des Arts and the Tennessee Performing Arts Center, opened at Cinquième Salle of La Place des Arts in December 2012. This unique adaptation of Collodi’s famous tale has been acclaimed by the critics and audiences in North America and Asia, in French and English. The show already counts more than 447 performances and was laureate of the Best Tour in Canada and the United States Award by the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec (CALQ), in 2016.
Tout à Trac all audience production Le Tour du Monde en 80 jours—Around the World in 80 days—was presented by the renowned Théâtre du Nouveau Monde in Montreal in April 2015, and toured in Quebec through 2017. This critically acclaimed grand spectacle is the recipient of three Gascon-Roux Audience Choice Awards of Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, including Best Stage Direction. It was presented 46 times to more than 33,000 spectators.
Les aventures du Baron de Münchhausen, the young audience version of MÜNCHHAUSEN, les machineries de l’imaginaire, was created in the fall of 2017. The show has been presented on tour 13 times to more than 5000 spectators.
Construire le rêve, Laboratoire public de création du Rêveur dans son bain, was created in 2021 at Théâtre du Nouveau Monde. It was presented 7 times to more than 950 spectators and was webcasted by the TNM, from May 21 to June 7, 2021.
Alice de l’autre côté, a young audience production, was created on March 7, 2022, at Salle Desjardins-Telus of Spect’Art Rimouski, our show’s principal partner. The show was awarded the Critic’s Choice Award – “Best Young audience production” by the Quebec Theater Critics’ Association in 2023. Presented to more than 60,000 spectators so far, the show totals 187 performances.
In May 2023, Le Rêveur dans son bain – (The Dreamer in his Bath) – was presented 27 times to more than 15,500 spectators at Théâtre du Nouveau Monde. The show was awarded three Gascon-Roux Audience Choice Awards.
CANDIDE, the latest all audience production of the company, premiered in November 2025 at Théâtre Denise-Pelletier in Montreal. Already presented 20 times to more than 12,000 spectators, the show starts its touring life in the fall of 2027.
The company has created and toured thirteen productions, presented more than 1800 shows to more than 634,000 spectators.
Tout à Trac continues to amaze audiences around the world.