Archives from 2024
- May 9, 2024: Elvira Kurt joins Segal's tough-talking POTUS. Wine & Halva playwright Deniz Basar on bridgiing divides. BTW's Vision Gala returns for the time since 2020. Hoor Malas dances If My Body Had a Name for Festival Accès Asie. | Playlist
- May 2, 2024: A preview of Montreal's 16th annual Sketchfest! Meet one of the fest's performers, Emily Jeffers, who is stealing hearts with her clown act,Bitty Bat. And storied choreographer Marie Bélanger's new show, Réunion.s | Playlist | Listen | Download
- April 25, 2024: Trampoline-focused circus show Esquive. Fringe hit Old G-d returns to Montreal for Clown Fest! Another diety-focused show, Brave New Theatre's The Act of G-d, at MainLine. Mishka Lavigne's bilingual opera about the October Crisis. | Playlist | Listen | Download
- April 18, 2024: Shakespeare's heroines get a modern update in Thy Woman's Weeds at Centaur. Two clowns coming to town for the MTL Clown Fest. Gabriel Charlebois Plante 's Sisyphean show. Isabel Rancier's Carré de cendre. | Playlist | Listen | Download
- April 11, 2024: Comparing yourself in Open House, with writer Drew Hayden Taylor and director DIan Marie Bridge. Le Patin Libre sharpens skating into performance art. L'inconsistance is a dance duet targeting empty rhetoric. | Playlist | Listen | Download
- April 4, 2024: Repeat of last week's episode | Playlist | Listen | Download
- March 28, 2024: Queer Reading Series. Spicey links dance and hip hop. Les Autochtoneries aux Écuries. Heidi Strauss dances through her mother's dementia. | Playlist | Listen | Download
- March 21, 2024: Fifteen Dogs at the Segal. Colonization and the cosmos in Imago's Space Girl. An immersive jazz show. And BTW's exploration of intersectionality in Every Day She Rose. | Playlist (Playlist still being updated) | Listen | Download
- March 14, 2024: Mon conte de feu explores a Canadian puppeteer's legacy. La Grande Mascarade. Slam! brings wrestling to the Circus at La Tohu. The Lakeshore Light Opera puts on Gilbert & Sullivan's The Grand Duke. | Playlist | Listen | Download
- March 7, 2024: GUILT (a love story) finds Diane Flacks in heart-rending confessional mode at Centaur. Kevin Matthew Wong on his The Chemical Valley Project. Comic Elspeth Wright on the not-so funny news about Just for Laughs. Amour, acide et noix changed Quebec dance. | Playlist | Listen | Download
- February 29, 2024: Rahul Gandhi on Motherf*cker with the Hat. Infinitheatre adapts a Montreal novelist's bookin Dominoes at the Crossroards. Louise Lapointe looks ahead to marionette festival, Casteliers. | Playlist | Listen | Download
- February 22, 2024: An Aussie circus company in Montreal: Gravity & Other Myths presents The Mirror. Norman Nawrocki's tribute to a Ukrainian anarchist. The Keeper explores the poetry and stories of Persian poet Ferdowsi. | Playlist | Listen | Download
- February 15, 2024: Deciphers explores translation and immigration. Nate Yaffe explores queer families in Because of the Mud. And rock opera Jimmy Legdick and solo show Nine Lives earn remounts at MainLine Theatre. | Playlist | Listen | Download
- February 8, 2024: Forty years of dance for Margie Gillis, and Ballet de l'Ouest de Montréal. BTW's Diggers with Chance Jones. Adjani Poirier looks ahead to Imago's The Flood, which is set in a women's prison at the end of the 19th century. | Playlist | Listen | Download
- February 1, 2024: Dawson drama students present the Canadian premiere of Tony-winning Stoppard play Leopoldstadt! Pearle Harbour aka Justin Miller on AGIT-POP! Lara Kramer's retrospective at Espace Libre. Helen Simard turns her rock 'n roll choreography to young audiences. | Playlist | Listen | Download
- January 25, 2024: Ricki explore parental anxiety at Wildside, along with queer musical Fé-e-s sans foi. BTW's Diggers. Charles Bender on spotlighting Anglo Indigenous playwrights. | Playlist | Listen | Download
- January 18, 2024: Geordie Fest explores wants and ambitions through the eyes of kids. Good Things To Do is a personal, virtual show with a message from an old friend. Wildside's Stories for the End of the World. | Playlist | Listen | Download
- January 11, 2024: We visit two Montreal artists bringing their shows to the Orlando Fringe's FestN4. Dancer Lara Oundjian's Leaky Immediations. A puppetry show that explores quantum physics via object theatre in La rébellion du minuscule, at Théâtre dex Écuries. | Playlist | Listen | Download
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