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Much like the famous NHLer he plays onstage, you can tell actor Shaun Smyth is working hard from the moment he steps onto the ice.

A new independent theatre company, Labyrinth Stage Productions, comes into being with a world premiere play written by its two co-founders and playwrights, Claudia Litvak Polachek and Pearl Rothenberg.

Ottawa-born singer and composer Kyrie Kristmanson discovered the Trobairitz (women troubadours) of the 12th and 13th centuries while studying at La Sorbonne.

Trista Moldovan has been part of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA for nearly 10 years, having played Christine in the 10,000th performance on Broadway as well as on tour.

From October 31 to November 5 at Centaur Theatre, Imago Theatre will present Her Side of the Story:Revision to Resist, a festival of performances, encounters and exchange around women who revision known narratives to reclaim Her Side of the Story from the footnotes.

A new line-up of plays and much more were revealed at Centaur Theatre's 49th season launch this afternoon.

Scapegoat Carnivale Theatre's Co-Artistic Directors Alison Darcy and Joseph Shragge are honoured to be invited to Centaur Theatre for a fourth Brave New Looks slot with Oedipus Part One: Assembly following their award-winning productions of Medea and The Bacchae.

Nominations are NOW OPEN for the 2017 BroadwayWorld Regional Awards! Regional productions, touring shows, community theatre and more are all included, honoring productions which opened between October 1, 2016 through September 30, 2017.

Lace up your skates! The Segal Centre is proud to announce the cast and creative team of their upcoming world premiere, The Hockey Sweater: A Musical based on the short story by Roch Carrier.

Centaur Theatre opens its 49th season with Playing With Fire: The Theo Fleury Story, an epic, reckless, and inspirational tale based on the life of one of Canada's most outstanding hockey players, running October 3 to 29, 2017.

Montreal is a renowned circus city, along with dance and theatre.

Arts Alive! Quebec (AAQ) partners with Theatre Wakefield's Ta Da! Festival  for a third exciting year to celebrate arts in the region, from September 8-10.

The Montreal English Theatre Awards (METAs) recognize and celebrate outstanding artistic work in English Theatre performed throughout Montreal.

On September 26, Honourary Chair Rodrigue Lussier of Fiera Capital and Centaur Theatre's new Artistic and Executive Director Eda Holmes are delighted to host TOUR DE FORCE, Centaur's 2017 annual Gala.

From September 6 to 10, the Hudson Village Theatre (HVT) remounts the 2016 production of RustWerk ReFinery's LOUIS RIEL: A Comic-Strip Stage Play.

Arts Alive! Quebec (AAQ) heads into the final event of this creative and fun summer festival series as it travels to the West Island and Point Claire's St.

Montreal's 2017-2018 theatre season is starting up, and there's a new kid on the playground.

Director, producer, actor and writer Jeremy Webb will be Neptune Theatre's new artistic director.

In The Wings Promotions will bring Tony Award nominee, original DEAR EVAN HANSEN and NEWSIES star, Mike Faist to teach an exclusive masterclasses in Montreal on September 18, 2017.

How often do you get a chance to see a genre and gender bending horror/love story about two queer women in a rocky romance? Vic and Flo saw a bear, translated and adapted for the stage from Denis Cote's award-winning 2013 film, will be running for two weeks this fall at Montreal's Centaur Theatre.

Arts Alive! Quebec (AAQ) partners with Theatre Wakefield's Ta Da! Festival  for a third exciting year to celebrate arts in the region, from September 8-10.

From September 6 to 10, the Hudson Village Theatre (HVT) remounts the 2016 production of RustWerk ReFinery's LOUIS RIEL: A Comic-Strip Stage Play.

Acts To Grind Theatre presents a Tim Evanicki & Davyn Ryall co-production, in association with Fierte Montreal Pride 2017, NAKED BOYS SINGING, written by Robert Schrock, Bruce Vilanch, Mark Winkle and created by Robert Schrock, opening 8/16

Hudson Village Theatre's (HVT's) third production of the summer, playing August 9 to 27, is Around the World in 80 Days, based on Jules Verne's acclaimed 1873 classic adventure.

Arts Alive! Quebec (AAQ) is at the halfway mark with successful events held in Knowlton, Quebec City and Hudson during June and July.