Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
By Rik Roe for Curtains Up A last minute gift from a co-worker of my better-half, Fiona, resulted in a gift that kept on giving. Taking place at our very own Place des Arts, we took a 90-minute long visual and auditory voyage with the talents of the Maria Pagés Compañía presentation, “Autorretrato”; a self-portait […]
by Carolyn Flower, Published in The Montrealer March 2013 Geordie Productions has been presenting live English theatre for family audiences since 1980. They continue to stay in touch with the pulse of what’s happening in the world around us and attempt to open the eyes, hearts and minds of young people and their families. Their […]
By Sharman Yarnell for Curtains Up Lights up, Jazz Band on stage, bring in the comedians. That was the opening to the launch of the Segal Centre’s 2013-2014 season, a season that offers a choice of comedy, drama, the classics and music. The band played Ain’t Misbehavin’ by Fats Waller and don’t you know, that […]
By Sharman Yarnell for Curtains Up How very brave – a scene done it total darkness. Hallelujah! The scene is found on the Centaur Theatre stage in Dance Me to the End On/Off Love. Another scene done inside a small, tight box, with a candle, in the nude. The confined dancer rotates and twists her […]
By Sharman Yarnell for Curtains Up Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris is not a piece often performed here in Montreal. A revue, with songs in french and english, it debuted in the late sixties off-Broadway, with 26 songs. A film version saw the addition of five more songs including ‘Ne […]
By Sharman Yarnell for Curtains Up Mounting a full blown musical production under professional circumstances is a difficult feat. For an amateur group, even more so. Once again, the Hudson Music Club has proven that almost anything is possible.Oklahoma (the first musical to be written by the team, Rodgers and Hammerstein) is the group’s newest […]
Behind the scenes in the Mahalia Jackson Musical with Ranee Lee and Tristan D. Lalla:
By Sharman Yarnell About one minute into the play, the laughter starts.Two Irishmen, traipsing across the ‘auld sod’ in search of a descendent, ending up in a graveyard with a doddering old woman and finally at the local Priest’s, is a bit of a giggler in itself. Imagine if one of the men is around […]
What do Edith Piaf, Billie Holliday, Sophie Tucker, Judy Garland and Mahalia Jackson all have in common?Peace.That’s Roger Peace, playwright, choreographer, director and producer. His latest creative endeavour as a writer and director, The Mahalia Jackson Musical, is about to open at The Segal Theatre in March.Since his arrival in Canada from England, he has […]
Sharman Yarnell had an opportunity to chat with Rock of Ages’ Universo Pereira on the upcoming Montreal show: