One of the Broadway’s biggest hits is hitting the stage at Place des Arts until August 4th, and it is nothing short of spectacular. The production by Cameron Mackintosh and presented by evenko has pulled out all the stops to deliver a musical masterpiece that will leave audiences enthralled long after the final note fades […]
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It’s Back: Repercussion Theatre returns with Shakespeare in the Park
There’s still time to catch the final shows of this year’s production of Shakespeare in the Park—a unique collection of Bard-inspired poetry, playfulness, and more called Infinite Variety… coming to a park near you! Repercussion Theatre has gathered 6 incredible performers, used an eco-conscious design, and set the bar even higher with a twist on […]
The triumph of Haley Dortch in Les Misérables
Actor Haley Dortch has been raising audiences to their feet as Fantine in the record-breaking North American tour of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning smash musical Les Misérables. After graduating from Guyer High School in Denton, Texas, Dortch went to study at the University of Michigan where at age 19 she auditioned for Les […]
Brazilian comedy tradition and a cast of unexpected characters take to the Fringe stage in Pindorama
It’s the 1930s in Brazil’s Minas Gerais state, and a bank is about to be simultaneously robbed by four unlikely would-be thieves: a soccer-fan eating werewolf, a bandit who wants his reputation back, a nun in search of an occult text, and Jesus Christ himself. Brazilian artist and playwright Fred Azeredo debuts MBC Productions Pindorama—an […]
Trans hurt and hope are exposed in Nadia Beugré’s provocative Prophétique (on est déjà né.es)
White plastic lawn chairs, shimmering scarves dangling from the ceiling, colourful ropes pulling props down to the stage, a feather dress worthy of Cannes, and a chorus of trans hairdressers set the scene in Nadia Beugré’s highly energetic and provocatively compelling Prophétique (on est déjà né.es (we are already born). Native of Abidjan in Côte […]
Tableau d’Hôte’s Caravan rolls into the Monument-Nationale
Montreal’s own Tableau d’Hôte Theatre is closing their successful 19th season with the world premiere of Caravan, set against the backdrop of the 1970 movement for reproductive justice in Canada. Seeking to shed light on Canadian stories that get lost in the footnotes, Tableau d’Hôte brings this important part of hidden history to the stage […]
Caroline Gauthier explores grief, travel, and love in her first one-woman show, Me and Her
Actor and performer Caroline Gauthier is bringing her first-ever solo show to Fringe with an up-close, in-depth, and ultimately transcendent look at grief—and what happens when you choose to leave home to search for yourself and emerge from the ashes. In Me and Her, Caroline recounts how caring for her dying mother, and heading on […]
Segal’s POTUS Delivers a Punch(line) at the Patriarchy
POTUS Or Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying To Keep Him Alive is an uproariously funny, gloriously over-the-top, slapstick comedy about a group of women at the White House trying to save the nation, and not just the President’s butt. It is hysterical, racy, and vulgar (in the best way). The show soars […]
You can check in but never leave at The ACT Club’s production of Hotel Archambeau
Take one haunted hotel, some questionable metaphysical boundaries, and a has-been celebrity who turns everything upside down, and you have all the makings of Hotel Archambeau—the latest production by Concordia University’s ACT (Autodidacts Concordia Theatre) Club. Playing this weekend at the Mainline Theatre, Hotel Archambeau uses a sparse stage, outlandish costumes, and some clever props […]
Fringe pick: A macabre, multimedia cabaret on the life and mysterious death of Edgar Allan Poe
Step into scenes from the life, characters, and mysterious death of macabre American writer Edgar Allan Poe in this experimental production by Syracuse, New York’s own Shylock Project—part of the 2024 Fringe Fest lineup. In Edgar in the Red Room, audiences will be taken through the catacombs of Poe’s final nightmare through music, movement, projections, […]









