Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
The Broadway smash Hamilton follows the rise of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton as he fights for honour, love, and a legacy that would shape the course of the USA. The musical headlines Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier from August 19 to September 7. Based on Ron Chernow’s acclaimed biography and set to a score that blends hip-hop, […]
The blockbuster Broadway musical Mean Girls makes its Montreal debut at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier from April 22 to 27. Featuring a book by Tina Fey based on her screenplay for the film, Mean Girls follows Cady Heron, who grew up on an African savanna and moves to suburban Illinois, where she takes on The Plastics, a […]
Veteran star of stage and screen Deidre Lang knows how to play the showbiz long game. Fresh from portraying the show-stopping Motormouth Maybelle on the Hairspray national tour, Lang is back on the road portraying Gran Georgeanna – Tina Turner’s beloved grandmother – in the smash hit TINA – The Tina Turner Musical national tour which headlines Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier February 4 to 9. The cast also includes American Idol finalist Jayna Elise starring as Tina Turner. […]
Actor Haley Dortch has been raising audiences to their feet as Fantine in the record-breaking North American tour of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning smash musical Les Misérables. After graduating from Guyer High School in Denton, Texas, Dortch went to study at the University of Michigan where at age 19 she auditioned for Les […]
The empowerment of women is the theme of the blockbuster Pretty Woman musical which headlines Salle Wilfred-Pelletier from March 5 to 10. Based on the Hollywood rom-com, the North American touring production of Pretty Woman The Musical features direction and choreography by two-time Tony Award-winner Jerry Mitchell (Kinky Boots, Legally Blonde), original music and lyrics by Grammy-winner Bryan Adams and Jim […]
The smash hit Broadway musical Aladdin makes its Montreal debut at Place des Arts on March 28, and the sterling cast includes veteran actor Sorab Wadia as the Sultan. Adapted from the animated Disney film, Aladdin sweeps audiences into a world of daring adventure, classic comedy and timeless romance. This new production features a full score, […]
The Tony and Olivier Award-winning smash hit musical Come From Away tells the remarkable and now famous true story of 7,000 stranded passengers and the small town in Newfoundland that welcomed them on September 11, 2001. Veteran stage actor James Kall costars in the new North American touring production of Come From Away. He was […]
By Richard Burnett Ever since its world premiere in London’s West End in May 1981, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s CATS has been enthralling audiences worldwide. Inspired by Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot, a series of poems about cats published in 1939, the musical then debuted on Broadway in 1982, won seven 1983 […]
The Cargnello brothers are gifted multi-instrumentalists. Singer-songwriter Paul Cargnello was frontman of 90s punk reggae band The Vendettas before charting with his successful solo career, then with his brother Christopher Cargnello as the Skinny Bros crafting some of the best funk, pop and rhythm & blues to come out of Montreal. A who’s who of […]
Carolyn Fe is one of Montreal’s original Renaissance women. She began her career as a contemporary dancer before acting in a variety of theatrical productions, TV and movie spots. Then she found her true voice singing jazz and blues in nightclubs and at festivals across Canada. I like to say blues icon Big Mama Thornton passed the […]