Today in Toronto: Fronteras Americanas, Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor, The Shape of a Girl and more

Today in Toronto: Fronteras Americanas, Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor, The Shape of a Girl and more

Forest of Reading Festival of Trees Canada’s largest lit fest for kids is back to spoil young bibliophiles with workshops, author and illustrator signings and awards ceremonies celebrating the best in fiction and non-fiction. Find out more »

Fronteras Americanas Guillermo Verdecchia, one of Canadian theatre’s most doggedly political figures, won a 1993 Governor General’s Award for Fronteras Americanas, a one-man show about the Latin diaspora and the pitfalls of stereotyping. Find out more »

Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor Mozart may never have finished this Great Mass, but it remains, even with its incomplete credo and sanctus, an exhilarating complement to the Requiem Mass. Find out more »

The Shape of a Girl Loosely based on the true story of 14-year-old Reena Virk, who was murdered by classmates in 1997, Joan MacLeod’s play follows the teenaged Braidie as she tries to shake visions of a “monster in the shape of a girl” and is forced to deal with her past and that of her peers. Find out more »

Virtuoso Violin: Stefano Montanari Returns Tafelmusik’s season finale features Italian violinist Stefano Montanari, a baroque virtuoso whose shaved head and rugby-ready body suggest he might be more at home fronting a rock band. Find out more »