Will Toronto’s Three Civic Performing Arts Theatres Be Frozen Out By The City?

“The Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts and the Toronto Centre for the Arts all felt a chill on Monday when it was revealed that one of City Manager Joe Pennachetti’s many possible areas to cut costs from the 2012 budget was for the government to step away from active involvement in those three facilities and “attempt to sell, lease or come to some other new arrangement” for the three theatres in question.”