Well late August has been a bit thin in terms of live performances but September. sees things back with a bang.
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- Opera Revue has a Verdi and Weill show at the Redwood Theatre.
- Coal Mine Theatre is opening with Annie Baker’s Infinite Life which played to rave reviews in London and New York. Previews are on the 6th to 8th with opening on the 10th. The play runs until the 29th.
- Crow’s opens their season with Ibsen’s Rosmersholm. Previews run from the 3rd to the 10th with opening night on the 11th. The run continues to October 6th.
The final programme of Confluence Concerts season took place at Heliconian Hall on Wednesday night. It was billed as The Confluence Songbook and, if there was a theme, it was about doing live versions of music that had been streamed during the Plague. But really by the time we saw it it had outgrown that. For, in addition to the full line up of Confluence artistic associates there was a raft of guests which resulted in a fairly lengthy and very eclectic programme. 
It’s coming towards the end of the traditional “season” but there’s sill plenty happening. Here’s how I see may shaping up at present (I expect more theatre listings will come in. They tend to be somewhat less notice!):
Thursday night’s Conflunce Concerts show at Heliconian Hall was titled Songs from Toronto and consisted of songs by Toronto singer-songwriters arranged for a larger ensemble by Andrew Downing. And by larger ensemble I mean various combinations of string trio, double bass, guitars of sundry varieties, vibraphone and piano. To further spice things up some of the songs were sung by Teiya Kasahara who is a rather different Fach than the average singer in this genre.
Tuesday night at Heliconian Hall was the time and place for a concert curated by, and largely performed by, Confluence Concerts’ young associate artists; the KöNG duo. KöNG consists of two Toronto-Hong Kong percussionists; Bevis Ng and Hoi Tong Keung, pursuing doctoral studies in Toronto. They were supported on some numbers by Ryan Davis (viola) and Ben Finley (double bass).
First some late calls for November:
There are a few adds for September. This Saturday (16th) you can catch Rachel Krehm in recital with Janelle Fung. That’s at 3pm. Details 
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