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Segal Centre’s SuperDogs: The Musical is not just for dog lovers

SuperDogs the Musical is a fun, family-friendly musical with a simple story and a sweet message of love for our furry companions and their devotion to us humans. You don’t have to be a canine lover to enjoy this excellent show. I know this because I took my dog-fearing mother. For as long as I […]

Centaur Theater All I Want for Christmas; photo by Andrée Lanthier
Film/TV

Centaur’s All I Want for Christmas Gives Plenty of Cheer

All I Want for Christmas is a delightful, at times ribald, comedy full of crazy chaos and a jolly serving of holiday joy. The setting is the North Pole in one of Santa’s many mailrooms. It’s December 23rd and all available elves are needed to meet that crucial deadline of Christmas Eve. Ginger (Amelia Sargisson) […]

Every Brilliant Thing-Segal Centre
Film/TV

Every Brilliant Thing Lights Up The Segal Centre

Every Brilliant Thing is a collection of the bright points that reflect the small, the large, and the deeply meaningful experiences that brings wonder to life. It is humourous, at times sad, and very moving examination of how we never stop moving and learning. This is a one-man show with a Narrator (Daniel Brochu). He […]

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REVIEW: The Celebrity Obsession is a raw, emotional look at superfan psychology

Known for her rather unique Freestanding Room production of Antonin Artaud’s “A Spurt of Blood” at the 2019 Montreal Fringe Festival, Marissa Blair is one of Montreal’s most unique, daring and edgy performers and producers. Her newest work, “The Celebrity Obsession” explores the mind of an obsessed celebrity fan, a psychopath who obsesses over one […]

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REVIEW: Phantom Limb Theatre’s “The Space Between” confronts death and grieving

On the first night of in-person performances of the St. Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival, theatre goers were welcomed to a very different experience for those returning to a live theatre for the first time in 2021. Cued outside, audience members waited for the doors to open where they were given a brand-new surgical mask to […]

Fringe
Arts and Entertainment Fine Arts Montreal Music Theatre

St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival turns 30!

A long-standing summer tradition in Montreal, the St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival is making its return this summer following the COVID-19 pandemic leading to the major downsizing of last year’s festival to a few virtual events. Known for pushing boundaries, limits and being bold in artistic practice, the St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival is also one of […]

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Geordie Theatre’s Virginia Wolf is a touching tale of imagination, sisterhood, and dealing with dark places

Montreal’s own Geordie Theatre is closing their 40th season with a special adaptation of Kyo Maclear’s award-winning children’s story, Virginia Wolf—based on the relationship between writer Virginia Woolf and her sister. This final production in a ground-breaking year for Geordie takes a closer look at what so many kids and teens have to deal with […]

Arts and Entertainment Montreal Theatre

It’s time for the annual (virtual!) Geordie Theatre Fest

Every year, Montreal’s own Geordie Theatre puts together a festival so people of all ages can discover great works in theatre for young audiences. And since current circumstances don’t allow for in-person productions, Geordie is bringing theatre… right to you! The Geordie Theatre Fest will take place February 3 to 6, with plays, workshops, a […]

Arts and Entertainment featured Music

Skinny Bros on The Beginning & The End in the age of COVID

The Cargnello brothers are gifted multi-instrumentalists. Singer-songwriter Paul Cargnello was frontman of 90s punk reggae band The Vendettas before charting with his successful solo career, then with his brother Christopher Cargnello as the Skinny Bros crafting some of the best funk, pop and rhythm & blues to come out of Montreal. A who’s who of […]

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Carolyn Fe finds new home on Nickelodeon

Carolyn Fe is one of Montreal’s original Renaissance women. She began her career as a contemporary dancer before acting in a variety of theatrical productions, TV and movie spots. Then she found her true voice singing jazz and blues in nightclubs and at festivals across Canada. I like to say blues icon Big Mama Thornton passed the […]