Montreal Theatre

Ongoing, Weekend and Upcoming Goodies with Samantha Wexler

Ongoing Montreal en Lumière February 20 – March 2, 2014 http://www.montrealenlumiere.com/home.aspx Casablanca/Chandigarh at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) until April 20, 2014 http://www.cca.qc.ca/en/exhibitions Peter Doig, No Foreign Lands at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts until May 4, 2014 http://peterdoig.mbam.qc.ca/en/ Kent Monkman “Welcome to the Studio” at the McCord Museum, until June 1, 2014 […]

Montreal Theatre

The Segal Center presents an adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull. (Feb 2nd-16th 2014

  Abby Elizabeth for Curtains Up It looks as though award winning playwright, Peter Hinton made the right choice when he decided to adapt Anton Chekhov’s ‘The Seagull.’ He also did a brilliant job with casting. Adaptations are rarely better than the original. However, Hinton’s innate ability to read between pretext, subtext and then everything […]

Film/TV

Curtains Up on Philip Seymour Hoffman

by Joseph Rossi What a sad day. One of our greatest character actors has died. Philip Seymour Hoffman was one of our finest stage and screen actors.  His range was incredible. He could pull off funny, tragic, evil and loveable without batting an eye.  Who can forget his oscar winning turn in Capote? His booming, […]