Today in Toronto: Beaches Jazz Festival, Carmen, Keith Cole and Andrew Harwood and The Kreutzer Sonata

Beaches International Jazz Festival The Beaches’ annual celebration of everything from big band to R&B to Afro-Cuban to funk has been taking over city streets and parks for 23 years. Find out more »

Carmen For this show, artistic director Simon Sylvain Lalonde has turned to opera and to performers better known as figure skaters (2011 Canadian ice dancing champion Paul Poirier, for one), for his take on Bizet’s fiery, ill-fated gypsy. Find out more »

Keith Cole and Andrew Harwood Keith Cole’s Three Bad Words is loosely based on the story of Colonel Russell Williams and features transvestite scientists scouring the gallery (and gallery goers) for traces of sperm. Find out more »

The Kreutzer Sonata Ted Dykstra’s terrific adaptation of Tolstoy’s novella about the not-so-blissfully wed moves to Soulpepper, building on last year’s SummerWorks show. Find out more »