Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
Montreal photographer Terry Hughes has travelled to some of the most remote places on earth to capture people’s resilience, grace, and humanity through his unique lens. His very first solo photography exhibition will be taking place in Montreal from August 22-27 at Mile End’s Galerie du Viaduc. Hughes’s exhibition is called Sonder—meaning the profound feeling […]
In her titular poem bodies like gardens, which opens the chapbook, Montreal poet Salena Wiener shows us how gardens are fertile ground for capturing the unique experience of being a woman. I feel weeds push my back, grasp my hips pull me under I gasp for breath but cough up mud The beautiful, evocative, sometimes […]
Take one family story, one world war, a book published by your grandmother about her ordeal, and what do you have? For Fringe artist Ingrid Garner, you have a one-hour, one-woman show called “Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl in Hitler’s Germany.” In 1999, Garner’s grandmother Eleanor published a memoir of her time spent growing up […]
The story starts with a spotlight on Sue Snell (Maya Lewis) being interrogated by voices off screen, and suddenly the stage is set for this fun and frightening rendition of the Stephen King classic Carrie, put on by Montreal’s own In the Wings Promotions. How do you stage a musical that’s part song and dance, […]
Montreal’s own Geordie Theatre is closing their 40th season with a special adaptation of Kyo Maclear’s award-winning children’s story, Virginia Wolf—based on the relationship between writer Virginia Woolf and her sister. This final production in a ground-breaking year for Geordie takes a closer look at what so many kids and teens have to deal with […]
Every year, Montreal’s own Geordie Theatre puts together a festival so people of all ages can discover great works in theatre for young audiences. And since current circumstances don’t allow for in-person productions, Geordie is bringing theatre… right to you! The Geordie Theatre Fest will take place February 3 to 6, with plays, workshops, a […]
A little pandemic isn’t going to put a hamper on the big celebrations Geordie Theatre has planned to celebrate 4 decades of young people and community involvement. Join the fun online on Saturday November 21 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. with the Geordie@40 Party Playlist—streamed live from the new Espace Geordie in historic Little […]
Innovation has taken centre stage on the Montréal theatre scene the last few months, and many local companies are going above and beyond to bring productions to the stage and offer safe new ways to share their love of the arts. That’s why Geordie Theatre is marking their upcoming 40th anniversary by unveiling Espace Geordie—a […]
As we come out of our COVID shutdown into a social-distancing reality, Montréal’s theatre scene is re-emerging with new ideas and innovative ways to bring audiences back to the stage. Like the bilingual series En pointe from Tableau D’Hôte Theatre. Since Thursday August 6th and running for 9 performances until Sunday September 27th, this episodic collection of […]
It’s no secret that the guidelines imposed by the COVID crisis have hit Montreal’s culture community particularly hard. But where there’s creativity, there’s always a way. With the 30th annual Fringe Fest put off until 2021, MainLine Theatre has worked hard to fill the gap with an innovative and socially distant online lineup of art, […]