Leslie Baker News

Montreal's English theatre community gathered in celebration at the beautiful and historic Rialto Theatre on Monday October 23rd for the 5th annual METAs Ceremony, honouring excellence in Montreal English theatre for the 2016-2017 Season.

The Montreal English Theatre Awards (METAs) recognize and celebrate outstanding artistic work in English Theatre performed throughout Montreal. The peer-juried awards promote professional and emerging English theatre artists and companies, to heighten their visibility both regionally and beyond, and to elevate the level of critical discourse about theatre in Montreal among artists and with the community at large

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.

SummerWorks Performance Festival returns for its 24th year August 7 -17, 2014. This year's season is sure to thrill with exciting changes, a crop of new works and moments of intensity, self-discovery and much more waiting to be discovered. SummerWorks is excited to announce its new Hub at The Theatre Centre (1115 Queen St W), where they will host Live Art programming throughout the 2014 Festival, replacing last year's Performance Bar. SummerWorks is also pleased to return to venues such as Theatre Passe Muraille (16 Ryerson Ave), the Lower Ossington Theatre (100 Ossington Ave) and the Scotiabank Studio Theatre (6 Noble St).

Scapegoat Carnivale Theatre will present Euripides' The Bacchae in a new translation from the ancient Greek, as part of Centaur Theatre's Brave New Looks from October 12 to October 20.