MONTREAL THEATRE NEWSROOM - Page 34

The Opera de Montreal opened its 39th season on September 15th, 2018 with Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto at the Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier in Place des Arts.

The Silk Road Institute, a Canadian Muslim non-profit organization dedicated to promoting cultural arts, is launching Canada's first professional Muslim theatre company this fall in Montreal.

The Segal Centre for Performing Arts is proud to present A Bintel Brief, a Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre (DWYT) production.

Cirque du Soleil is thrilled to return to the Edmonton area with its coolest arena show yet - Cirque du Soleil's CRYSTAL.

Centaur Theatre announces its 50th Anniversary LEGACY SERIES, three staged play readings that will each run for a limited time throughout the 2018-19 season.

Shining the spotlight on emerging Canadian female and female-identified composers and librettists who demonstrate extraordinary promise in opera creation, winners for the first-ever Mecenat Musica Prix 3 Femmes have been announced in Montreal.

The Segal Centre for Performing Arts is kicking off the 2018-2019 theatre season with the Montreal premiere of Once.

At a community and media event held at the Monument-National's cafe on Thursday September 6th, The Montreal English Theatre Awards Committee announced the nominees for this year's Awards Ceremony.

After great success last year with the inaugural project, Infinitheatre presents the second cohort of the Quebec English-language Playwrights' Unit (The Unit).

Arts Alive! Quebec comes to the Montreal area for the final events in this successful, roving arts festival.

Located in the clown and circus capital of Canada, Montreal will play host to the 3rd annual Festival des Clown de Montreal from September 12-16, 2018.

La Chapelle Scenes Contemporaines unveiled the detailed program for its four seasons 18-19.

The performing arts land in Wakefield for Arts Alive! Quebec's (AAQ) next stop on September 7 and 8.

Gramma Mia! is touted to be a unique spin on ABBA's jukebox musical Mamma Mia, and just happens to coincide with the cinematic release of Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again.

Known throughout the city for their annual December Christmas concert and June Broadway revue, The Lyric Singers offer local vocalists (currently aged 20-something to 70-something) a great opportunity to work with professional directors on a variety of musical styles.

Four years ago, author and director Jose Babin set out on an unusual circumpolar adventure and crossed path with wonderful peoples and territories.

This year's Shakespeare-in-the-Park puts a modern twist on one the most well-known love stories of all time.

A remarkably moving, brilliantly funny love story, Gently Down The Stream reflects the triumphs and heartbreaks of the entire length of the gay rights movement, celebrating and mourning the ghosts of the men and women who led the way for equality, marriage, and the right to dream.

Female-driven projects are the big winners at the 2018 Just For Laughs ComedyPRO pitch competitions, which took place this past week during the key industry / media / performer dates of the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, Canada.

Canadian Comedy Award-winning Rapp Battlez makes its OFF-JFL premiere at the Katacombes on Tuesday, July 24 at 11:59 p.

Spreading creativity throughout the province this summer, Arts Alive! Quebec's (AAQ) next stop is early August in both Knowlton (August 3-5) and Quebec City (August 3-4).

Following a staggering success at the 2018 St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival where they took home the Runner-up Prize for the MainLine Creativity Award, Thought Experiment Productions' Ülfet Sevdi and Nicolas Royer-Artuso look forward to pleasantly puzzling Toronto audiences with 4'33" IN BAGHDA

With summer holiday season in full swing, July and August in Les Jardins Gamelin will present a cornucopia of circus, movies, cabaret and music.

For its 30th anniversary season, Repercussion Theatre presents Romeo & Juliet: Love is Love from July 5th to August 8th, 2018.