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 […]
April Fools is a very sexy, crazy, uninhibited musical journey of a woman’s walk on the wild side. It takes the audience inside her head with all of her desires, turmoil, how her impulses contradict against her and clash with reality. It is a jam-packed rock show done cabaret-style. It is at times thrilling, funny, […]
A long-standing summer tradition in Montreal, the St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival is making its return this summer following the COVID-19 pandemic leading to the major downsizing of last year’s festival to a few virtual events. Known for pushing boundaries, limits and being bold in artistic practice, the St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival is also one of […]
I wish I had had the opportunity to introduce pop icon Joan Rivers to Eva Blue. I knew Ms. Rivers very well for many years, she was a true professional who adored a great photographer. And workaholic Eva is quite possibly the hardest-working photographer in Montreal, who has snapped incredible portraits of everybody from Barack […]
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 […]
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for February 2018: MUSIC The live music scene kicks into high gear as Montrealers’ wallets have gotten fatter since the holiday season. Some of the bigger names headed to town this month are British rock legends Uriah Heep (Corona Theatre on February 10), legendary Genesis guitarist Steve […]
Centaur Theatre’s Wildside Festival Warms Hearts on the Coldest of Days I think we can all agree that making your way outside on a frigidly cold night is a feat in itself. Motivation is required, especially when temperatures reach an arctic low. If it weren’t for Centaur Theatres’s 21ST Wildside Festival I, and many […]
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for October 2017: MUSIC Rock icon Roger Waters is back in town. Following his Montreal appearance on the red-carpet at the world premiere of the Opéra de Montréal’s Spring 2017 adaptation of Pink Floyd’s iconic album The Wall, called Another Brick In The Wall – The Opera, […]
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for September 2017: CLASSICAL MUSIC & OPERA In his 12th year at the helm of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Maestro Kent Nagano launches the 2017-2018 season with Mahler’s sweeping Symphony of a Thousand. With more than 350 people on stage – including the OSM Chorus, mezzo-sopranos […]
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for July and August 2017: CLASSICAL MUSIC & OPERA This summer the OSM will continue Montreal’s 375th anniversary party when it joins forces with the Orchestre Métropolitain and the McGill Symphony Orchestra to present the free outdoor concert Montréal Symphonique on August 19. Presented at the foot of […]