Today in Toronto: Gordon Lightfoot Tribute, Hercules and more
Gordon Lightfoot Tribute For a decade, Hugh’s Room has been staging an annual love-in for the man who lamented the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald, wished you could read his mind and warned you about creepin’ round his back stairs. For this 10th-anniversary edition, the series of tribute concerts will feature the likes of John McDermott, the Good Brothers, Valdy, Lori Cullen and a slew of surprise guests. Find out more »
Hercules Staged for a concert performance by Opera Atelier’s Marshall Pynkoski and directed by Jeanne Lamon, Handel’s English-language musical drama turns to myth for its dissection of the universal power of jealousy. Find out more »
My Heart is a Spoon The peculiar world of Japanese manga comics, with its pretty, big-eyed girls and boys of derring-do, provides fertile ground for choreographer Maxine Heppner in this new work, part of an ambitious Canada-Japanese initiative called the Rage Project. Find out more »
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