Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
By Richard Burnett Ever since its world premiere in London’s West End in May 1981, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s CATS has been enthralling audiences worldwide. Inspired by Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot, a series of poems about cats published in 1939, the musical then debuted on Broadway in 1982, won seven 1983 […]
Is the theatre a world within a world? Can the audience find themselves so enveloped in this experience that the outside world is happily forgotten or is it a secret trap? Where is the line between fantasy and reality? Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera is a spectacular gothic powerhouse that brings the […]
Strobe lights flickered as band members took their respective places and Keith Urban appeared on a riser beside the drum kit, picking on a banjo, to the first song, Gone Tomorrow. It’s lyrics fit the theme of the night perfectly “It’s Gone Tomorrow but here today / I won’t let it slip away” he did […]
Can religion bring a community together or tear it apart? Is the literal meaning of the word more important than the sense of hope it can foster? The Broadway musical, The Book of Mormon is fantastic and insanely funny! It is a wildly politically incorrect story on misunderstandings, blind faith, and friendships. It is also […]
Here are some Montreal arts and culture highlights for February 2017: MUSEUMS The blockbuster exhibition Chagall: Colour and Music at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts features some 500 works and documents—paintings, collages, watercolours, sculptures, stained glass windows and ceramics—which show how the aesthetic and artistic world of famed Russian-French artist Marc Chagall (1887-1985) is imbued with […]
Kinky Boots! I have seen it on Broadway and now it is about to thrill Montreal audiences – and thrill it will! Based on a movie released in 2005, Kinky Boots is actually inspired by true events. Charlie Price inherits a shoe factory from his father. Charlie has no desire to take on the faltering […]
Ongoing Focus: Perfection Robert Mapplethorpe at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts until January 22, 2017 https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/exhibitions/on-view/focus-perfection/ Notman, a Visionary Photographer. At the McCord Museum until March 26, 2017 http://www.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/exhibitions/notman/ Burlesque Evenings Every 3rd Thursday night at JoBlo on Wellington in Verdun. http://www.joblorestaurantsteakhouse.com/Default-en.aspx
Image from: http://tinyurl.com/z6cwetc Ongoing Toulouse-Lautrec Illustrates the Belle Époque at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts until October 30, 2016 https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/exhibitions/on-view/toulouse-lautrec/ Gardens of Light at the Botanical Gardens until October 31 http://espacepourlavie.ca/en/programming/gardens-light Focus: Perfection Robert Mapplethorpe at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts until January 22, 2017 https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/exhibitions/on-view/focus-perfection/ Burlesque Evenings Every 3rd Thursday night at […]
Ongoing Toulouse-Lautrec Illustrates the Belle Époque at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts until October 30, 2016 https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/exhibitions/on-view/toulouse-lautrec/ Arts Alive! • Craig Morrison’s retro band Vintage Wine at John Rennie High School, September 24 • Hudson Artists Fall Art Expo, September 23 -25 & September 30 – October 2. http://2016.arts-alive-quebec.ca/eng/ArtsAlives/home Burlesque Evenings Every 3rd Thursday […]