Lisa Rubin News

The Segal Centre for Performing Arts will present a stage adaptation of the Giller® Prize-winning novel Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis.

Winners have been announced for the 2023 BroadwayWorld Montreal Awards! See who was selected audience favorite in Montreal! Winners include the Segal Centre for the Performing Arts, Contact Theatre, and more.

The Segal Centre for Performing Arts will start the first half of the season with Tony and Grammy- winning musical Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, a co-production with the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, which brings the songbook of the incomparable singer-songwriter to life from October 15 to November 5. It is followed from November 19 to December 10 by a presentation of a Talk Is Free Theatre production of Boy Falls From The Sky, an insider's unflinching true story of what it takes to make it on Broadway starring Degrassi's Jake Epstein, who, coincidentally, originated the role of Carole King's husband in Beautiful.

The Segal Centre for Performing Arts has announced that they will be completing important renovations and improvements to their spaces including the Sylvan Adams Theatre.

 The Segal Centre for Performing Arts will present the Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre (DWYT) original production of I Kid You Nosh!. This uplifting and lively musical inspired by Jewish comfort food and true stories from behind the scenes of the DWYT will be running for five days only from June 18 to June 22, 2023. I Kid You Nosh! will be performed in many languages with English supertitles.

The Segal Centre for Performing Arts will present the critically and multi-award-winning, Josephine: A Musical Cabaret starring Tymisha Harris and directed/choreographed by Sean Cheesman.

The Segal Centre for Performing Arts launched their 2023-2024 Theatre season earlier today with a celebratory toast in their Lobby surrounded by Montreal theatre lovers. This stellar season of theatre brings two prestige shows that wowed audiences on Broadway and two groundswell Canadian hits that point to our country's vibrant future in the arts. These premium shows are happening in your own backyard at accessible prices.

The Segal Centre for Performing Arts will present the Canadian Premiere of Prayer for the French Republic by Joshua Harmon, writer of the smash hit play Bad Jews, and directed by Segal Centre Artistic and Executive Director Lisa Rubin.

Twice a year the Cole Foundation's Intercultural Conversations-Conversations Interculturelles (IC-CI) program disperses hundreds of thousands of dollars to support professional Montreal theatre companies who produce, commission and translate plays that show diversity on stage. This encourages greater understanding of Montreal's intercultural reality by having audiences both learn about and see their stories presented.

MacDowell will welcome 142 artists from 23 states, Washington, D.C., and 11 countries for spring and summer residencies. These Fellowships at the nation’s first artist residency program were granted from a pool of 1,822 applications from 54 different countries and every state except Hawaii.

The latest standings as of Monday, December 19th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Montreal Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites.

On Saturday, November 12 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., the Segal Centre for Performing Arts will be dimming the lights in memory of Alvin C. Segal, O.C., O.Q., PhD (HC) Z''L who passed away last week.

Just in time for Halloween, the Segal Centre launches their season with the fresh and hysterical Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors by Piaf/Dietrich director Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen. This hilarious send-up with a Mel Brooks-esque twist on the classic tale will have audiences screaming with laughter in the Sylvan Adams Theatre from October 23 to November 13, 2022. 

The Segal Centre for Performing Arts launches their 2022-2023 Theatre season featuring four hot new shows that promise to take audiences through a full range of emotions and supports regrowth of the local theatre community by highlighting the very best that Montreal has to offer. 

Yiddish theatre is finally back on stage after its long pandemic “intermission”. The Segal Centre for Performing Arts is proud to present The Sages of Chelm by the Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre (DWYT).

The Segal Centre is reopening and putting theatre back in the spotlight with the upcoming English-language premiere of April Fools, a pop/rock cabaret musical from Israeli superstar and two-time “Israeli Singer of the Year” Keren Peles.

The Segal Centre for Performing Arts is delighted to welcome back long-time Montréal favourite Yinglish (Yiddish/English) comedy duo YidLife Crisis (Jamie Elman and Eli Batalion) for an in-person send up of the last few years. The Segal Centre's presentation of YidLife Crisis' “Pandemish” will be in the Sylvan Adams Theatre for 10 performances only from January 22 to January 30, 2022.

The Segal Centre has announced a brand-new spectacle for the whole family this holiday season, Spot On Entertainment's SuperDogs: The Musical featuring the President's Choice SuperDogs.

The Segal Centre for Performing Arts will kick off its much-anticipated full season for 2021-22 with a remount of the beloved Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe.

The Segal Centre for Performing Arts announced today their 2021-2022 theatre season which includes three wildly unique, brand-new musicals and the return of two audience favourites.