Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
Sharman Yarnell for Curtains Up “But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.” “How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice. “You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.” Lewis Carroll So […]
Yolande Ramsay for Curtains Up The Segal Centre presents The Secret Annex, a play that tells a powerful story of survival with romance, humour, grief, and dares to ask the question “What if?” What if Anne Frank had survived the Holocaust? What kind of life would she have? What would happen to her diary, one […]
Yolande Ramsey for Curtains Up Beautiful City Theatre, first recipient of the Curtains Up Award, will be staging, for one night only, “A Chorus Line”, the Tony-awarding winning Broadway classic, with music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban, and book by James Kirkwood Jr. and Nicholas Dante. The musical tells the story of […]
Ron Roxtar for Curtains Up Rush R40 tour Geddy Lee – vocals, bass, keyboards, synthesizer Alex Liefson – guitars Neil Peart – drums. If R40 is truly the last Rush tour as stated by all members, then at least they went out as the Rush Canadians know and love and have air drummed to […]
Ms. Cavendish is presently performing at the Centaur Theatre in The Goodnight Bird – You have this wonderful presence on stage, energy, clarity and projection of character – and mostly, it is clear that you enjoy what you are doing. “Theatre is very real for me – It was great playing pretend when I was […]
Written by: Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone Directed by Casey Nicholaw and Trey Parker Who would have thought that the creators of the critically acclaimed and inappropriately funny TV show ‘South Park’ would have a Tony award winning hit on Broadway one day? The Book of Mormon is a satire that follows two young […]
Abby Elizabeth for CurtainsUp.TV Most of us are familiar with Mike Nichols 1967 film ‘the graduate.’ Which is about a young, graduate student (Benjamin Braddock) who is seduced by an older married woman: (Mrs. Robinson) the ultimate and probably the first celebrated ‘cougar.’ However, Braddock soon falls for Mrs. Robinson’s daughter Elaine and drama ensues. […]
By Sharman Yarnell I think we can all agree that there are a few essentials to a play that make it worthwhile. A solid dose of inspiration is needed – it should be thought provoking, balanced with drama and comedy, well written, well performed and entertaining. You’ll find all of the above in the […]
By Tracey Hill for Curtains Up Splendore a Venezia, a gently paced exhibition with music and fine arts playing a most lyrical duet is on for only 8 more days at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in the Jean-Nöel Desmarais Pavillion. Bursting with information and surprising facts about the history of opera, art and […]
Samantha Wexler for Curtains Up Überculture was here at Concordia’s EV building this past Wednesday and Thursday to bring Montrealers a local art fair. The premise of the art fair was to bring affordable local art and unique pieces created by local artists and artisans to people […]