Make Or Break Time For Toronto Arts Center

Toronto’s Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts, reeling from the recent departures of its two resident companies, is moving to rebrand itself as “a multipurpose, multicultural facility.” But more than a repurposing will be necessary to keep the center humming: a new business plan recently approved by Toronto’s city council compels Hummingbird to raise $60 million in the next year, or face becoming a tenant of the real estate company that’s spearheading the center’s ongoing expansion project.