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What to see, do, read and hear in Toronto this February
Including a Palestinian coming-of-age novel and an inconceivably good orchestral score
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What TL Insiders can look forward to this October
Including a night at the opera and a spooky haunted house experience
Culture
The best stage performances coming this fall
Including a diva on a mission, a play about petty oligarchs and family dysfunction, and more sneak peeks at the season’s best opera, theatre and dance
Culture
“People think opera is glamorous, but I’ve got news for them”: Soprano Kirsten LeBlanc on stepping into the lead role of
La Reine-garçon
The singer talks elaborate costumes, warm-up rituals and falling in love with the history of Sweden’s gender-bending Queen Christine
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Memoir
“Being a supernumerary is like being handed an all-access pass to the opera”
For diehard opera fan Mark Garlin, a 37-year-old administrative assistant in outpatient care from Swansea, watching his favourite productions from the stage itself was a dream come true
Culture
What to see, do, hear and read in Toronto this May
A revival of
Jesus Christ Superstar
, a tribute to Gordon Lightfoot, a night of comedy with Gerry Dee and more
Culture
What to see, do, hear and read in Toronto this February
Including an indie powerhouse's most emotional tour yet, an exhibition on reclaiming Indigenous culture and a new adaptation of a classic play by Anton Chekhov
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City News
The Questionnaire: Three new performing arts heads on their pandemic pivots
After two tough years, the performing arts are live once more. Here, the leaders of Toronto’s top institutions explain how they plan to get things humming
Memoir
A young opera singer lost his biggest champions to Covid. This performance helped him heal
"Performing Mozart's
Requiem
turned into a way for me to console the pain that I hadn’t fully come to terms with"
Culture
Go to the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, see a
Simpsons
-inspired play and eight other things to do this week
Go crazy for comics at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival Toronto has always been a comics town—Joe Shuster even modelled...
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Culture
See a play in an abandoned high school, bid farewell to Dame Edna and seven other things to do this week
See a play in an abandoned high school One of the season's most ambitious theatre creations is Sheridan College's Brantwood...
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Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of April 11–13
In this edition of The Weekender, a modern reinterpretation of a classic opera, a festival of kids' movies and three more things...
Culture
The Canadian Opera Company’s 2014 season is heavy on international talent, and Atom Egoyan
The Canadian Opera Company announced its 2014/2015 lineup on Wednesday evening, and opera fans have a few things to look forward...
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City News
Best of Fall 2013: six Toronto concerts that are totally worth the lineup
By Andrew D’Cruz, Sue Carter Flinn, Emily Landau, Alison Mah, Jason McBride, Courtney Shea, Stéphanie Verge, Chris Webster and...
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Luminato 2013 guide: 17 must-see events at this year’s arts festival
This year’s Luminato Festival, the first under the complete oversight of artistic director Jorn Weisbrodt, seems to have...
City News
The Argument: Musical visionary Tod Machover crowd-sourced a symphony for Toronto—now other cities want one too
In early 2011, Peter Oundjian, the music director for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, enlisted Tod Machover to compose a piece for...
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City News
The Argument: why the stakes are so high for Ben Heppner’s return to the Canadian Opera Company
A controversial production. A hugely difficult role. A star with a reputation for choking onstage. The stakes are high for Ben...
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The Weekender: Super Bowl XLVII Party, Tristan und Isolde and five other items on our to-do list
1. KUUMBA Harbourfront kicks off Black History Month with the 17th edition of its annual Kuumba festival (“kuumba” means...
Culture
Current Obsession: The Metropolis Case, the best way to get pumped for the COC’s latest opera Tristan und Isolde
Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, which opens tonight at the COC, demands total surrender on the part of the audience, both...
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Culture
The COC’s 2013–2014 season features Ben Heppner as Peter Grimes and a new Atom Egoyan production
The Canadian Opera Company’ s general director Alexander Neef unveiled the lineup for the COC’s 2013–2014 season this...
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Today in Toronto: Snow White, Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio Competition and more
Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio Competition A training ground for young singers, the COC ensemble has been around since...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: My sister gave me opera tickets. Am I obligated to take her as my date?
Dear Urban Diplomat, For my 40th birthday, my sister bought me season’s tickets to the Canadian Opera Company—two seats in the...
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City News
Party Pages: Opera supporters dance to Nelly Furtado and The Arkells at this year’s Operanation gala
Operanation, the annual party to benefit the Canadian Opera Company, is always one of the year’s biggest fetes (not least in...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Nuit Blanche, Paper Bag’s 10th anniversary and six other events on our to-do list
1. SCOTIABANK NUIT BLANCHE From dusk to dawn, the streets of Toronto will be packed with art and art lovers for the seventh...
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’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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Deep Dives
Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
Deep Dives
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026
This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar
Deep Dives
Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team
After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype
Deep Dives
Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with
SNL
rookie Veronika Slowikowska
Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of
Saturday Night Live
in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it
Deep Dives
Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer
The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line
Deep Dives
The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?
We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout
Deep Dives
My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press
My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell
Deep Dives
Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin
Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe
Deep Dives
Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?
Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI
It’s hard out here for a 20-something
Deep Dives
The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market
Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises
Deep Dives
Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI
Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband
When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
Deep Dives
Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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