Film/TV

Samantha’s Look at Weekend and Upcoming Events

Ongoing ChinaTown Street Sale, until June 29, 2014 http://www.mtlblog.com/2014/06/montreals-chinatown-to-host-first-summer-time-sidewalk-sale-next-week/ Montreal International Jazz Festival, until July 6, 2014 http://www.montrealjazzfest.com/default-en.aspx L’International des feux lotto Québec, June 28 – August 2, 2014 http://internationaldesfeuxloto-quebec.com/en/programmation/calendrier.aspx Fabulous Fabergé the Jeweller of the Czars, until October 5, 2014 at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts http://faberge.mbam.qc.ca/en/#exhibition Cirque du Soleil – Kurios: A […]

Music Varia

Spring Ramblings of a Drummer

  The snow has melted revealing a winter’s worth of dog doughnuts.  Welcome to Montreal.  We moved our clocks forward.  If you didn’t …leave home now you’re late.  It’s hard to lose an hour of sleep, but it’s better than total darkness at 4:30pm. The Saint Paddy’s day parade invited all Montrealers to make complete […]

Dining

CIELO TAPAS

By Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up   [email protected] Tapas restaurants in Spain are national institutions frequented religiously by Spaniards on an almost daily basis. It has been said that there are over 2,000 of these fabled eateries in Barcelona alone! Tapas are considered synonymous with Spanish cuisine and its tradition of eating small dishes of food […]

Film/TV

Samantha’s Weekend Round-Up

Ongoing **2 Pianos 4 Hands at the Centaur until May 25th http://www.centaurtheatre.com/2pianos4hands.php Kent Monkman “Welcome to the Studio” at the McCord Museum, until June 1, 2014 http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/expositions/expositionsXSL.php?lang=1&expoId=94&page=accueil 1+1=1: When Collections Collide. At the Museum of Fine Arts until June 15, 2014 http://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/mbam-mac Cirque du Soleil – Kurios: A Cabinet of Curiosities until  July 13, 2014 […]

Film/TV

Samantha’s Look at Weekend and Upcoming Events

Ongoing  **Top Girls at the Segal Centre until May 18, 2014 http://www.segalcentre.org/whats-on/upcoming-events/theatre-3/segal-theatre/top-girls/ Cirque du Soleil – Kurios: A Cabinet of Curiosities until  July 13, 2014 in the Old Port http://www.cirquedusoleil.com/en/shows/kurios/tickets/montreal.aspx?cid=ps:kur_ca-qc-01_2014:kurios_montreal_2014:google:ac055%7C43307460648:tks:adv&keyword=cirque%20du%20soleil&gclid=CLT3_qDXtb0CFbFaMgodEV0AOw 2 Pianos 4 Hands at the Centaur until May 25th http://www.centaurtheatre.com/2pianos4hands.php

Music

Take 5 with TAKE 6 – All 4 a Cause

Contributed by Rik Roe TAKE 6 has  won more GRAMMYs than any other vocal group in history and they’re coming to Montreal! Kimberly Zimmer’s Get It Promotions is proud to announce a benefit concert by multi-GRAMMY Award-winning vocal group TAKE 6 on March 23, 2014 at Montreal’s intimate Gesù Theatre.   TAKE 6 (Claude McKnight, Mark Kibble, Joel Kibble, Dave […]

Music Varia

Heavy MTL’s 2014 Raucous and Rollus Lineup Announced

By Rik Roe, for curtainsup.tv   2013 was a Raucous and Rollus Heavy MTL success that had It’s festival goers absorbing waves of sound, talent, and festivities. 2014 is continuing the tradition. Heavy Montreal has just rolled out its 2014 edition lineup for its 6th annual installment of the “loudest” festival of the summer, taking place at Montreal’s Parc Jean-Drapeau […]

Montreal Theatre

Wildside Theatre festival melts the cold with its smoldering hot lineup

Abby Elizabeth for Curtains Up Montreal winters are brutal. The season becomes especially difficult once the holidays are over and we’re left with a sugar addiction, high visa bills and extremely frosty temperatures. Luckily the city is full of great ideas, creative people and genius collaborations. And…theatre goers who look forward to the unordinary, something […]