featured

featured Theatre

Facing Life’s Changes at Centaur’s At the Beginning of Time

At the Beginning of Time is a comedy-drama that presents an honest and stirring look at mortality. It touches on personal choices, reconciling the past, and how to live in the next phase of life. These are big questions but the show hits them with quick wit, ribald humour, and a nice dose of Montreal […]

Arts and Entertainment featured Montreal Music Theatre Varia

A Big (Fish) Kiss for Come from Away at Place des Arts

Come From Away is a miracle. A glorious, heartwarming, joyous musical based on a true story about the town of Gander in Newfoundland that rose up to help unexpected visitors during one of the most tragic events of the 21st century. The show features rousing and moving songs which gives an atmosphere of a Newfoundland […]

featured Theatre

Come From Away with actor James Kall

The Tony and Olivier Award-winning smash hit musical Come From Away tells the remarkable and now famous true story of 7,000 stranded passengers and the small town in Newfoundland that welcomed them on September 11, 2001. Veteran stage actor James Kall costars in the new North American touring production of Come From Away. He was […]

Sexual-Misconduct_Marcel-Jeannin-Ines-Defosse_Photo-by-Andree-Lanthier-scaled.jpg
Arts and Entertainment featured Montreal Theatre Varia

Lessons Learned at Centaur’s Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes

Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes is a thought-provoking drama about power and sex, with the #MeToo movement slowly creeping up on the characters. It touches on the needs of the young vs. the middle-aged, loneliness, and the consequences of choices. This play will stir important discussions on the boundaries between people and how these […]

Colin Simmons and Naomi Ngebulana_Dracula A Comedy of Terrors 2022_(Photo by Emelia Hellman).jpg
Arts and Entertainment featured Montreal Theatre Varia

Screams of Delight for Segal’s Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors

Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors is a very unexpected version of the gothic horror classic, “Dracula” by Bram Stoker. More farce than frightening, this delicious show is hysterically funny, as quick-paced as lightening in Transylvania, and very sexy. This show is the perfect antidote to the spooky season’s shorter days and longer nights. Very-loosely adapted […]

Eva Foote and Company_April Fools 2022 (Photo by Leslie Schachter).
Arts and Entertainment featured Fine Arts Montreal Theatre Varia

Segal Centre’s April Fools Is Sexy and Techy

April Fools is a very sexy, crazy, uninhibited musical journey of a woman’s walk on the wild side. It takes the audience inside her head with all of her desires, turmoil, how her impulses contradict against her and clash with reality. It is a jam-packed rock show done cabaret-style. It is at times thrilling, funny, […]

PlayForTheLiving_Warona Setshwaelo_Photo_Andrée Lanthier
Arts and Entertainment featured Film/TV Montreal Theatre Varia

Wake-up Call at Centaur’s A Play For The Living In A Time Of Extinction

A Play For The Living In A Time Of Extinction is powerful, engaging, haunting, and ultimately, filled with gratitude for nature’s delicate power. It examines humanity’s connection and responsibility to the environment with humour, intelligence, and a passion that bares not only the soul of the protagonist, but also that of the audience. Naomi (Warona […]

Arts and Entertainment featured Montreal Theatre

CATS the Musical 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 […]

Arts and Entertainment featured Montreal Theatre Varia

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 […]

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 […]