Today in Toronto: Doc, Able Was I Ere I Heard Abel, Alex McLeod

Doc: Letting go isn’t easy, but Sharon Pollock gave it all she had in her semi-autobiographical 1984 play—a Governor General’s Award winner—about her fraught relationship with her troubled mother and ambitious father. Find out more >>

Able Was I Ere I Heard Abel: A punny tribute to Carl Friedrich Abel, the 18th-century composer and viola da gamba virtuoso. Justin Haynes on viola da gamba joins baroque cellist and wife Kate Haynes in works by Haydn, Abel, Christoph Schaffrath and others. Find out more >>

Alex McLeod: If you can imagine landscape filtered through the brains of slightly mad 10-year-olds obsessed with pastels, you’ll get Alex McLeod’s new show, Spectral. Find out more >>