Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
Take one haunted hotel, some questionable metaphysical boundaries, and a has-been celebrity who turns everything upside down, and you have all the makings of Hotel Archambeau—the latest production by Concordia University’s ACT (Autodidacts Concordia Theatre) Club. Playing this weekend at the Mainline Theatre, Hotel Archambeau uses a sparse stage, outlandish costumes, and some clever props […]
Step into scenes from the life, characters, and mysterious death of macabre American writer Edgar Allan Poe in this experimental production by Syracuse, New York’s own Shylock Project—part of the 2024 Fringe Fest lineup. In Edgar in the Red Room, audiences will be taken through the catacombs of Poe’s final nightmare through music, movement, projections, […]
Writer, producer, and former journalist Shelby Thevenot is a comedian on a mission: They want to show audiences what it’s like to come out of the closet late in life—and live their best gay life. Late-in-Life Lesbian is making its world premiere at the 2024 Fringe Fest with some important insights and hilarious reflections on […]
This year’s Blue Metropolis was a celebration of Dreams & Utopias, a theme that took centre stage at last Friday evening’s panel, Inner and Outer Landscapes in a Changing World, located in downtown’s Hotel 10. Hosted by former CBC journalist Paul Kennedy, the hour-long talk featured Italian particle physicist and novelist Paulo Giordano (Tasmania) and […]
From April 25 to 28, the 26th edition of Blue Metropolis will bring some 150 literary giants to Hotel 10, with participants gathering from around the world to share their writing, reflections, big ideas, and hopes for a better world. Join writers as they explore this year’s theme of Dreams & Utopias through readings, conversations, […]
A mother and her 10-year-old son move from the farm to Montreal to start a new life, only to find the rift in their relationship filled by a parent’s worst fears, a child’s dangerous curiosity, and a thing that threatens to either push them over the edge—or bring them back together. Now playing at the […]
Get in the holiday spirit with a performance by the Lyric Theatre Singers, who will be taking the stage at Concordia’s Loyola Chapel for four candlelit evenings of Christmas music from around the world. Led by musical director Bob Bachelor, the ensemble will be singing from a repertoire of everything from new arrangements of Christmas […]
Writer, actor, and Broadway star Jake Epstein talks to Curtains Up about his tell-all tale, Boy Falls From the Sky Showbiz tell-all Boy Falls From the Sky is a tale about how dreams don’t always go as planned, told through the eyes of Jake Epstein—Degrassi alumnus and star of Broadway favourites Spider-Man: Turn Off the […]
It isn’t often you get to watch a performance while sitting at the bottom of a pool. But the Bain Mathieu venue’s repurposed stage is the perfect metaphor for Imago Theatre’s latest production: The Retreat. Part dystopia, part self-reflection, and completely otherworldly, The Retreat is an open space away from time and place where people […]
On a small island overrun by land developers, two radically different strangers’ lives collide after an unexpected ecological disaster. Seeking safety in a bunker, they clash and connect over their shared dislike of the developers and their conflicting dreams of a utopia where they can do more than just survive. – via Geordie Theatre’s press […]