Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
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 […]
Mainline Theatre’s Associate Director Kenny Streule is known around Montreal as an essential part of the theatre and performing arts community. Also known among artists for his involvement as Associate Director of the Montreal Fringe Festival, Kenny has premiered his own one-man fringe-style show “Malunderstood”, a work created as part of the Playwrights Workshop Montreal. […]
For five consecutive years, Howie Mandel has hosted his own gala as part of the Just for Laughs festival programming in Salle Wilfrid Pelletier. Filmed for American network “The CW”, this year’s gala was once again a stellar all-star lineup featuring globally renowned comics Anjelah Johnson, Ronny Chieng, Fortune Feimster, Alonzo Bodden, Cameron Esposito, Mark […]
Returning to the St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival this year, Aussie comedian Shane Adamczak is bringing back his well-known character Zack Adams, who has been a known character on the Canadian fringe festival circuit since 2006. Celebrating the 10th anniversary of “Zack Adams: Love Songs for a Future Girl”, Shane is reviving the very funny production […]
Having well-established himself at the Montreal Fringe with “Help, I’m American” in 2017 and the Frankie-Nominated “Becoming Magic Mike” in 2018, multi-talented American actor, writer, comedian and singer/songwriter DK Reinemer returns for his third consecutive year to the St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival with his new show, “The DK Effect”. For the same performer to be […]
Having created a world of unique, comedic and colourful puppets as part of his production company (Philo14), Philippe Gobeille is one of Montreal’s leading independent puppeteers, entertaining audiences of all ages in both English and French. A professional artist who not only creates his own puppets from scratch, Philippe also writes many of his own […]
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 […]
Parents make sacrifices for their children, to give them opportunities they did not have. Problems arise when the children have different ideas and the parent is not always in agreement. But does that mean the love is no longer unconditional and there is no room for forgiveness? Kim’s Convenience is a laugh-out loud and heart-warming […]
Ron Roxtar for Curtains Up Why is the heading the title of the actual Alan Cummings gala? Orny Adams was the only comedian last night to hit all the right marks with non stop angry energy on stage and keeping the audience laughing throughout his set. He was also the only comedian to receive […]