Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
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Montreal’s Tableau d’Hote Theatre has been an integral part of the English theatre community, presenting Montreal premieres of newer works including “Blackout: The Concordia Computer Riots” and a bilingual version of “Encore” in 2019. The company wraps up the 2019 year with Jesse Stong’s Winter’s Daughter, a dramatic and dark play based on the secret […]
Montreal’s own Geordie Theatre is a professional non-profit company that’s has been around since 1980, presenting English productions across the city and beyond while offering kids an opportunity to discover and take part in live theatre. They are truly a local treasure. Geordie’s annual Holiday fundraiser is coming up this week, and the production promises […]
I’m sure by now you’ve heard about this runaway Broadway hit. Come From Away is a play about what happened when planes were grounded on 9/11, and some 6,700 passengers and crew were diverted to the airport in Gander, Newfoundland—a town of about 11,000 on the northeast tip of the island. But how do you […]
Little Dickens is a hugely entertaining, uproariously funny version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. The story is told through beautiful string puppets, by Ronnie Burkett of The Daisy Theatre, with wicked improvisations, raunchy vaudeville, and a flash of burlesque. This is a very naughty and nice show (for grown-ups only) and a great kick […]
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Montreal massacre–the femicide that killed 14 women at École Polytechnique on December 6, 1989. Montreal playwright Adam Kelly Morton first wrote and performed his acclaimed one-man monologue The Anorak in 2000, delivering an account of events from the point of view of killer Marc Lépine. This year, […]
This 40-minute, high-intensity, no-holds-barred play from Purple Divine is unlike anything you’ve seen before. The scene is a freight elevator—and so is the set. The audience entrance is though a loading dock door, setting the tone for the dark, emotional, and often harrowing conversation that takes place between Going Up’s two actors (Kelly Craig and […]
Montreal audiences will get an authentic taste of Broadway when veteran actor Andrew Samonsky co-stars in the touring production of the smash-hit musical Come From Away at Place des Arts. Samonsky has appeared on Broadway as Neville Landless in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Kenneth Ormisten in Scandalous, and Lt. Cable in the Tony award-winning revival of South […]
The modern Grimm-like fairy tale The Pillowman, written by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh, is currently playing with a take of its own at Mainline Theatre’s Minimain stage. The Snowglobe Theatre has mounted a production that adds a layer of visual complexity to this modern classic. Storyteller and newly arrested police-state comrade Katurian (Matias Rittatore) finds himself […]
Israeli superstar Idan Raichel has headlined many of the world’s most prestigious venues, including the Apollo Theater, Radio City Music Hall, the Sydney Opera House, Zenith in Paris and London’s Royal Albert Hall. The famed world-music multi-instrumentalist has also collaborated with some of the world’s best-loved musicians, such as American pop stars India.Arie, Dave Matthews […]
Is it easy to be all-powerful and omnipotent? Gods, like parents, believe they can control everything. But at some point, the power will shift. Will the results be a catastrophe? Mythic is a wildly entertaining and funny musical on the Greek gods and their antics. Full of energy, delightful performances, and good songs, this is […]