Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
Get in the holiday spirit with a performance by the Lyric Theatre Singers, who will be taking the stage at Concordia’s Loyola Chapel for four candlelit evenings of Christmas music from around the world. Led by musical director Bob Bachelor, the ensemble will be singing from a repertoire of everything from new arrangements of Christmas […]
Extra/Beautiful/U is an insightful story about appearances, how we are perceived, and how we think we are judged by others. It is sharp, witty, and thought-provoking. It asks if we are projecting our needs and wants onto others. Or are we being willfully blind. Lara (Madeleine Scovil, giving a full portrait behind a mask) is […]
Boy Falls From The Sky is a sweet, hilarious, and entertaining musical about the real-life roller coaster journey into show business by its star, Canadian actor/singer Jake Epstein. This is not a cautionary tale about the pit falls of the entertainment industry, a story we have seen many times before. Mr. Epstein’s story is much […]
Writer, actor, and Broadway star Jake Epstein talks to Curtains Up about his tell-all tale, Boy Falls From the Sky Showbiz tell-all Boy Falls From the Sky is a tale about how dreams don’t always go as planned, told through the eyes of Jake Epstein—Degrassi alumnus and star of Broadway favourites Spider-Man: Turn Off the […]
It isn’t often you get to watch a performance while sitting at the bottom of a pool. But the Bain Mathieu venue’s repurposed stage is the perfect metaphor for Imago Theatre’s latest production: The Retreat. Part dystopia, part self-reflection, and completely otherworldly, The Retreat is an open space away from time and place where people […]
When we interact or become intimate with people from another culture, do we seek to connect with the person or the culture? Do we project our perceptions onto that culture? Do we fail to make a true relationship because of our fears, ignorance, or arrogance? alterNatives is a show with big ideas and yet remains […]
On a small island overrun by land developers, two radically different strangers’ lives collide after an unexpected ecological disaster. Seeking safety in a bunker, they clash and connect over their shared dislike of the developers and their conflicting dreams of a utopia where they can do more than just survive. – via Geordie Theatre’s press […]
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 […]
In her titular poem bodies like gardens, which opens the chapbook, Montreal poet Salena Wiener shows us how gardens are fertile ground for capturing the unique experience of being a woman. I feel weeds push my back, grasp my hips pull me under I gasp for breath but cough up mud The beautiful, evocative, sometimes […]
Take one family story, one world war, a book published by your grandmother about her ordeal, and what do you have? For Fringe artist Ingrid Garner, you have a one-hour, one-woman show called “Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl in Hitler’s Germany.” In 1999, Garner’s grandmother Eleanor published a memoir of her time spent growing up […]