Bruce McCulloch Announces 2026 “Dark Purple Slice Canadian Tour”

Bruce McCulloch, best known as a founding member of the legendary sketch troupe The Kids in the Hall, will take his acclaimed one-person show “Dark Purple Slice” on a cross-Canada tour beginning February 2026, visiting theatres nationwide and continuing into April.

“Dark Purple Slice” moves brilliantly between funny, relatable, and surprisingly poignant. Blending music, stand-up, and storytelling, McCulloch takes audiences on a poetic flyover of his life, offering equal parts humour and heart. With his trademark wit and offbeat sensibility, he invites audiences to laugh, reflect, and contemplate the absurdities of being human. Bruce mixes his dark sense of humour with grace and humanity. So many people are saying this is the show we need right now.

McCulloch comments:

“It’s about finding the beauty and joy in life, even in these troubling days. And how we use dark humour to get through life’s toughest times.”

Weaving together gallows humour, humanistic yearnings, and razor-sharp observations, “Dark Purple Slice” showcases McCulloch’s singular ability to find light in the dark. The show explores his lifelong habit of looking at the world as an outsider – reaching outward and inward, confronting pessimism with perspective, and celebrating the messy contradictions of life.

A celebrated writer, performer, and director, Bruce McCulloch first rose to prominence as one-fifth of the iconic Kids in the Hall, whose most recent season aired on Amazon Prime Video. Over his multifaceted career, he’s written and directed several films, including Dog Park (starring Luke Wilson), Superstar (Molly Shannon, Will Ferrell), Stealing Harvard (Jason Lee, Leslie Mann), and Comeback Season (Ray Liotta). On television, he’s created, written, and performed in Young Drunk Punk, Death Comes to Town, and This Blows for CBC, as well as the ABC series Carpoolers.

For ticket information, visit http://www.bruciomcculloch.com.

Tour Dates:

February 5, 2026, London, ON – The Aeolian Hall
February 7, 2026 – Guelph, ON – Royal City Mission
February 12, 2026 – Sarnia, ON – Imperial Theatre
February 19, 2026 – Peterborough, ON – Showplace Performance Centre
February 20, 2026 – Ottawa, ON – Algonquin Commons Theatre
February 22, 2026 – Oshawa, ON – Regent Theatre
February 27, 2026 – Hamilton, ON – The Westdale
February 28, 2026 – Paris, ON – Paris Presbyterian Church
March 6, 2026 – Toronto, ON – The Royal
March 8, 2026 – Montreal, QC – Beanfield Theatre
March 12, 2026 – Saskatoon, SK – Broadway Theatre
March 20, 2026 – Edmonton, AB – Myer Horowitz Theatre
March 22, 2026 – Winnipeg, MB – West End Cultural Centre
March 27, 2026 – Victoria, BC – Macpherson Playhouse
March 28, 2026 – Coquitlam, BC – Great Canadian Casino Vancouver
April 9, 2026 – Calgary, AB – Bella Concert Hall
April 11, 2026 – Kelowna, BC – Kelowna Community Theatre
April 24, 2026 – Moncton, NB – Capitol Theatre
April 25, 2026 – Halifax, NS – Casino Nova Scotia