Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
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 […]
Josephine: A Musical Cabaret is a highly entertaining show based on the extraordinary life of the African-American singer / dancer Josephine Baker. The burlesque style show is filled with songs from the 1920’s through the 1960’s, cheeky humour, and a powerful story about fighting oppression. Fantastic! In a one-woman performance, the vivacious Tymisha Harris portrays […]
Little Willy is a hysterical, raunchy, and endearing adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, with a wonderful twist. The cast are the marionettes by Ronnie Burkett of The Daisy Theatre. The show is filled with risqué performances, laugh-out loud improvisations, and a nice dose of love. This show (for adults only) is a fun […]
King Dave is a brilliant one-man performance on the self-destructive impulses that can come from the struggles with racism. It is a journey of how injustice, betrayal, and unaccountability can twist one’s choices, leading to ruin. Dave, a young Haitian-Montrealer, narrates his story of youthful troubles as they spiral out of control. His need for […]