Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
On May 30th, nine of Montreal’s professional English-language theatre companies announced their artistic programming for the 2019-2020 season in the atrium of the stunning Conseil des arts de Montréal building. And what a line up The Launch MTL has in store for us! Under the umbrella of community, creativity, shared stories, and daring new approaches, […]
Now in its 29th year, the St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival showcased its local programming at Club Soda on Monday evening. Throughout the three-hour showcase, 63 companies each had two minutes to promote their show on stage. The Fringe’s annual programming is selected entirely by lottery with no restrictions on what can be performed by festival […]
“Grant, the pioneering manager, revolutionized the business and helped shape the modern music industry. At the time of his death in 1995, a proposed film about his life had been in development for more than five years. It was never going to get made. And if it had, nobody would ever have believed it anyway.” […]
“I don’t know a single woman working in my field, or any creative field, or any field at all, who cannot relate to Milicent Patrick. It’s not just her story. It’s mine, too.” -Mallory O’Meara (from The Lady From the Black Lagoon, page 15) Back in the 1990’s my friend Hill and I managed to […]
Can indifference ruin a relationship? How can a relationship grow, if neither person makes the time to nurture the bond with one another? Following the overwhelming success of Blackout: the Concordia Computer Riots, Tableau d’Hote Theatre continues on their season’s theme of “Longing to Remember, Refusing to Forget”. This season closes with a bilingual (world-premiere) […]
A modern artistic approach to a well-known classic, this Shakespearean masterpiece is set in renaissance times. It all comes together around the question of “To be, or not to be”. One of the longest-known popular plays, Hamlet has been performed all over the world and is a staple of any classical theatre repertoire. In this […]
Indecent is a powerful and profoundly moving story on the struggle for art and truth. If a work speaks boldly, is it offensive? Or is the truth itself indecent? Is art meant to inspire or shock? Or both? Indecent is a play within a play. It is the story of how the controversial play, God […]
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for May 2019: MUSIC Many top touring acts headline various Montreal concert venues this month. Legendary British singer-songwriter Joe Jackson headlines Théâtre Maisonneuve on May 9, Toronto indie rockers Broken Social Scene play at the Corona Theatre on May 21, Metric + July Talk (May 5) and […]
“The global heritage of popular music is the product of 125 years of artistic and scientific innovation. It represents a constant quest for modernity, which must be endlessly renewed. This is the story of that quest; of the musicians, the generations that they delighted and divided, and the technology which captured their music in the […]
A candid Q&A with pop icon Engelbert Humperdinck When I first interviewed Engelbert Humperdinck a decade ago, he was riding another wave of popularity after recording the song Lesbian Seagull for MTV’s 1996 adult cartoon film Beavis and Butt-Head Do America. The filmmakers liked that Engelbert – or ‘Enge, as in Stonehenge’ – has a sense of […]