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Two Weeks Left To Nominate For The 2019 BroadwayWorld Montreal Awards, Presented by TodayTix!
by BWW News Desk on October 14, 2019 in Montreal There's just two weeks left to submit nominations for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Montreal Awards, brought to you by TodayTix! Regional productions, touring shows, and more are all included, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2018 through September 30, 2019. Our local editors have set the categories and now YOU get to nominate and vote for your favorites! Nominations are reader-submitted and will be open through October 31. (more...) 
Elad Schechter + Rand Ziad Taha & Hala Salem To Premiere PARALLEL
by BWW News Desk on October 02, 2019 in Montreal Winner of the silver medal at the Beijing International Ballet and Choreography Competition in 2011, Elad Schechter will present Premiere, a rare collaboration between a Muslim artist and a Jewish choreographer. The work is a sort of protest, a performance originally staged in the Western part of the city where they were both born and raised, Jerusalem. (more...)
Nominations Open For The 2019 BroadwayWorld Montreal Awards, Presented by TodayTix!
by BWW News Desk on October 01, 2019 in Montreal Nominations are NOW OPEN for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Montreal Awards, brought to you by TodayTix! Regional productions, touring shows, and more are all included, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2018 through September 30, 2019. Our local editors have set the categories and now YOU get to nominate and vote for your favorites! Nominations are reader-submitted and will be open through October 31. (more...) 
Segal Centre Presents The North American Premiere Of MYTHIC
by BWW News Desk on September 25, 2019 in Montreal The Segal Centre is proud to continue its mission of developing and premiering new musical theatre works with top Canadian talent with a new pop/rock musical about the Greek goddess Persephone. Directed by Brian Hill and featuring a high-energy score filled with epic anthems by Marcus Stevens and Oran Eldor, the North American premiere of Mythic will be in the Sylvan Adams Theatre from October 27 to November 17, 2019. (more...) 
Yonder Window Theatre Company Presents THE DREAM PROJECT
by BWW News Desk on September 23, 2019 in Montreal New York City-based Yonder Window Theatre Company has journeyed to Québec to develop and premiere The Dream Project 3.0, Montréal, a multilingual, multidisciplinary collaboration between North American artists from Mexico, United States and Canada. This unique production performs from October 9-13 at the expansive Universcène. (more...) 
Music Of Hungary Comes To St. James United Church
by BWW News Desk on September 16, 2019 in Montreal KIN Experience Musical Adventure Series is pleased to present its inaugural concert, Music of Hungary. Under Artistic Director and lyric tenor Sebastian Haboczki, gifted musicians soprano Melissa McCann, István Lakatos (violin) and Paul Digout (piano) celebrate the brilliant folk songs from Zoltán Kodály (pronounced Ko-dye), along with the music of Ferenc (Franz) Liszt and others. This outstanding musical showcase brings a retrospective of Hungarian composers to a contemporary audience for an informative and engaging concert for both Hungarians and non-Hungarians alike. One night only, Saturday, October 5, at the acoustically stunning St. James United Church. Proceeds from the evening benefit numerous Montreal youth and non-profit communities. (more...) 
HONOUR: Confessions Of A Mumbai Courtesan Comes to Teesri Duniya Theatre at MAI
by BWW News Desk on September 13, 2019 in Montreal Though Dipti Mehta's HONOUR: Confessions of a Mumbai Courtesan seems like a world away, today's domestic headlines are rife with disturbing reports about sex-trafficked girls as news unfolds about Jeffrey Epstein as well as Aboriginal girls and women. Mehta's story is a poignant, deeply-moving yet entertaining look at the exotic, dangerous life of Mumbai's real-life brothels and why they exist. Teesri Duniya Theatre is proud to present this important show playing at MAI from October 3-6 for five performances only. Continuing their mandate to encourage dialogue, the Theatre will hold a post-show talkback after Saturday's matinee. Mature content warninga?"ages 13+. (more...) 
LE FANTOME DE L'OPERA Comes to Montreal and Quebec in January 2020
by BWW News Desk on September 12, 2019 in Montreal A concert version of Le Fantome de l'Opera, the French language production of The Phantom of the Opera is coming to Montreal and Quebec in January 2020! (more...) 
BESIDE Announced At La Chapelle
by BWW News Desk on September 11, 2019 in Montreal The piece BESIDE of maribé - sors de ce corps, in partnership with Montréal Danse, will be the subject of four performances at La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines in Montréal, from October 15th to 18th, 2019 at 7 p.m. Public talks will be held before the show, guided by Line Grenier and Hilary Bergen. (more...) 
BLUE STOCKINGS Advocates Women's Right To Higher Education
by BWW News Desk on September 10, 2019 in Montreal As Persephone Productions approaches its 20th anniversary, it proudly presents Blue Stockings, written by Olivier Award-winning playwright, theatre director and screenwriter, Jessica Swale. Set in the late Victorian era of 1896 at England's prestigious Cambridge University, Blue Stockings follows the story of four young women fighting for self-determination and the right to receive higher education against the larger backdrop of women's suffrage in Britain. (more...) 
MAMMA MIA!, What A Season At The Charlottetown Festival
by BWW News Desk on September 09, 2019 in Montreal From Avonlea to the shores of a Greek Island paradise to the streets of St. John's Newfoundland, The Charlottetown Festival is finishing off a world-wind trip of a season this month. While some Islanders are saying a?oeWhere did the summer go to?a??, there are still three weeks left to see the four productions playing at Confederation Centre of the Arts. (more...) 
Centaur Theatre In Collaboration With TOHU, Leaps Into A Brand New Season
by BWW News Desk on September 05, 2019 in Montreal Centaur Theatre and TOHU explode onto the fall cultural scene with the limited-run return engagement of Un Poyo Rojo, the hilarious international sensation from Argentina. The show, which runs from September 24th to 29th, first visited Montreal as part of the Montreal Complètement Cirque festival in July of 2018. After recent triumphs at the Venice Biennale as well as performances in Spain, Portugal, and the UK, the theatrical acrobats and original creators of the show, Luciano Rosso and Nicolás Poggi, bring it back to Montreal as part of a North American tour. (more...) 
BORDERLINES Announced At 3rd Biennale Of Festival Alterite
by BWW News Desk on September 05, 2019 in Montreal After presenting notable solos at Festival TransAmériques in 2012 and MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) in 2017, choreographer Taoufiq Izeddiou returns with Borderlines, a group work copresented with MAI and Nord Sud Arts et Cultures. (more...) 
Stephane Crête Brings NUMAIN To La Chapelle
by BWW News Desk on September 04, 2019 in Montreal Solo piece for a human and a silicone doll, NUMAIN explores the liminal spaces between Eros and Thanatos, in a ritualistic theatre in which loneliness, violence and desire merge. Stéphane Crête hypothesizes that liminal notions would be better to explore with dolls rather than with real actors, while raising moral and ethical questions, both on the practice of theatrical play and on human relations. (more...) 
BWW Previews: BONNIE & CLYDE Remount Opens Friday 9/6 at the MainLine Theatre
by Noelle Hannibal on September 04, 2019 in Montreal The anticipated remount of BONNIE & CLYDE from emerging theatre company, Contact Theatre opens this Friday, September 6. The remount of their sold- out, critically acclaimed debut production runs through September 8, 2019 at the MainLine Theatre. (more...) 
Photos: THE INSANITY OF MARY GIRARD Reimagined for 9th Festival International de Theatre De Mont-Laurier
by Oliver Oliveros on September 03, 2019 in Montreal Filipino playwright Eljay Castro Deldoc's a?oe13th of Septembera?? makes its international debut at the 9th Festival International de Theatre De Mont-Laurier on Monday, September 9, 2019, 4 p.m., at the Espace Theatre (543) Rue du Pont Local. (more...) 
Katie Ward Presents IMAGINATIONREALITY
by BWW News Desk on August 29, 2019 in Montreal Katie Ward approached this new creation by questioning the concept of reality, highlighting the many details of multiple subjectivities. Dancers and spectators are invited to play specific roles by following parallel scores, executed simoultaneously, in order to form a pool of realities. (more...) 
Canada's First Professional Muslim Theatre Company Presents the Canadian Premiere of SPUN
by BWW News Desk on August 27, 2019 in Montreal For its second production since the company's 2018 inauguration in Montreal, the Silk Road Institute (SRI), Canada's first professional Muslim theatre company, presents SPUN. London-based writer Rabiah Hussain's debut play about South Asian identity in Western society had its world premiere in the UK at London's Arcola Theatre in June of 2018. This production of SPUN, directed by multi-disciplinary artist, Mercedeh Baroque, makes its Canadian debut at the esteemed Centaur Theatre, from September 18 to 28, 2019. (more...) 
The Wolf Lab Presents THE PARLOUR PROJECT: SPIDER, FLY, AND WEB
by BWW News Desk on August 26, 2019 in Montreal Step into artist Amber Dawn Bellemare's parloura?? The Parlour Project: Spider, Fly, and Web is a provocative, vulnerable auto ethnography about the artist's lived reality as a former sex worker, using the contributions from her patrons to fund her work as an emerging artist. An intimate embodiment of human connection and sexuality, The Parlour Project reflects Bellemare's insights about womanhood and the commodification of the feminine divine. This immersive, raw and theatrical installation art event is an opportunity for audiences to participate in her story from their own place of imagination, morality, experience and courage. At the beautiful Wolf Lab studio at 4035 rue Saint-Ambroise from Sept. 19-28. Contains nuditya?"for ages 18+. (more...) 
Infinitheatre Heads to Beijing with KAFKA'S APE
by BWW News Desk on August 21, 2019 in Montreal Local independent theatre company Infinithéâtre is taking its critically acclaimed Kafka's Ape on tour once again, this time to Beijing, China. Powerhouse Howard Rosenstein is riveting in adaptor/director Guy Sprung's captivating play. (more...) 
Service Dogs Attend Performance of BILLY ELLIOT in Canada
by BWW News Desk on August 17, 2019 in Montreal A group of service dogs recently attended a relaxed performance of Billy Elliot at the Stratford Festival in Ontario. (more...) 
Natasha Kanapé Fontaine Presents TSHISHIKUSHKUEU
by BWW News Desk on August 16, 2019 in Montreal Natasha Kanapé Fontaine adapts her poetry collection Bleuets et Abricots for the stage. Manifestation combining poetry, slam, singing, theater and performance, the artist brings together the main mediums by which she has been expressing herself for many years. She will stretch the thread of her inner song to call the female spirit of the Innu territory: a process of reconstruction, a migration in a reconquest of oneself and the ancestral Innu culture of the artist. A show becoming a unique ceremony, where the poem becomes the invocation drum on a stage inhabited by the performer and haunted by ancestors. In the wake of imposing global emancipations of the colonial power, the memory is reborn, the stories and the rites return. They give back to the Aboriginal women their identity as pillars of the clan and of the present. (more...) 
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Dances its Way to The Segal Centre
by Andee Shuster on August 16, 2019 in Montreal After 21 sold-out shows and the META Award for Outstanding Community Theatre Production, the Cote Saint-Luc Dramatic Society (CSLDS) is bringing back its crowd-pleasing Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for a limited run, this time at The Segal Centre. After a stunning yet serious production of Kander and Ebb's Cabaret this June, the CSLDS felt they needed to provide a family-friendly offering for their audience base. (more...) 
PSC Community Youth Theatre Kicks Off New Season
by BWW News Desk on August 15, 2019 in Montreal For more than a decade, the PSC Community Theatre has offered a completely FREE Youth Theatre School Program a?" taught by a Professional Acting Coach. (more...) 
Marie Béland Comes To La Chapelle This Fall
by BWW News Desk on August 14, 2019 in Montreal The piece BESIDE of maribé - sors de ce corps, in partnership with Montréal Danse, will be the subject of four performances at La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines in Montréal, from October 15th to 18th, 2019 at 7 p.m. (more...) |
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