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“The real history of music is not respectable. Far from it. Neither is it boring. Breakthroughs almost always come from provocateurs and insurgents, and they don’t just change the songs we sing, but often shake up the foundations of society. When something genuinely new and different arrives on the music scene, those in positions of […]
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for the second half of December 2019: MUSIC Montreal-born, L.A.-based music legend Andy Kim found fame when he wrote How’d We Ever Get This Way?, the first of nine Billboard Top 40 hits, including the No. 1 songs Rock Me Gently and Sugar, Sugar. Kim headlines his sixth annual […]
With just $40 in his pockets, Montrealer Andy Kim headed to New York City at age 16 and found fame when he wrote How’d We Ever Get This Way?, the first of nine Billboard Top 40 hits, including the No. 1 songs Rock Me Gently and Sugar, Sugar, one of Billboard’s “Greatest Songs of All […]
Montreal’s Tableau d’Hote Theatre has been an integral part of the English theatre community, presenting Montreal premieres of newer works including “Blackout: The Concordia Computer Riots” and a bilingual version of “Encore” in 2019. The company wraps up the 2019 year with Jesse Stong’s Winter’s Daughter, a dramatic and dark play based on the secret […]
Montreal’s own Geordie Theatre is a professional non-profit company that’s has been around since 1980, presenting English productions across the city and beyond while offering kids an opportunity to discover and take part in live theatre. They are truly a local treasure. Geordie’s annual Holiday fundraiser is coming up this week, and the production promises […]
I’m sure by now you’ve heard about this runaway Broadway hit. Come From Away is a play about what happened when planes were grounded on 9/11, and some 6,700 passengers and crew were diverted to the airport in Gander, Newfoundland—a town of about 11,000 on the northeast tip of the island. But how do you […]
Little Dickens is a hugely entertaining, uproariously funny version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. The story is told through beautiful string puppets, by Ronnie Burkett of The Daisy Theatre, with wicked improvisations, raunchy vaudeville, and a flash of burlesque. This is a very naughty and nice show (for grown-ups only) and a great kick […]
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Montreal massacre–the femicide that killed 14 women at École Polytechnique on December 6, 1989. Montreal playwright Adam Kelly Morton first wrote and performed his acclaimed one-man monologue The Anorak in 2000, delivering an account of events from the point of view of killer Marc Lépine. This year, […]
This 40-minute, high-intensity, no-holds-barred play from Purple Divine is unlike anything you’ve seen before. The scene is a freight elevator—and so is the set. The audience entrance is though a loading dock door, setting the tone for the dark, emotional, and often harrowing conversation that takes place between Going Up’s two actors (Kelly Craig and […]
Montreal audiences will get an authentic taste of Broadway when veteran actor Andrew Samonsky co-stars in the touring production of the smash-hit musical Come From Away at Place des Arts. Samonsky has appeared on Broadway as Neville Landless in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Kenneth Ormisten in Scandalous, and Lt. Cable in the Tony award-winning revival of South […]