Archives from 2025
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May 15, 2025:
Michaela Di Cesare explores a long-forgotten ancestor in MICKEY & JOE (Good. Bad. Ugly. Dirty). Teesri Duniya does Festival Accès Asie. BTW's Club Zed looks for the next generation of writers.
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May 8, 2025:
Community, indie and pro theatre are on the docket! Lakeshore Players Dorval puts on Murder on the Orient Express. Contact Theatre goes to the Cabaret. Centaur revisits Michel Tremblay's For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again.
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May 1, 2025:
Helen Simard's latest dance work is about constant reinvention. Dozens of troupes arrive for Sketchfest. Gui B.B creates a fantasy show that promises' humid and erotic X-Files.'
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April 24, 2025:
DNA testing Fringe hit Our Little Secret: The 23andME Musical debuts in Montreal! We speak to the composer. A Hole Is A Hole Is A Hole is a surreal Christmas dinner about queerly coming-of-age. DJ-producer Lunice lends his chops to dance trio Catch Step.
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April 17, 2025:
We revisit four conversations from the past month about shows that span drama, circus, dance and shortform: Paperplane, Keffiyeh/Made in China, Entre Nous Sommes Pris Entre Nous and Tutu.
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April 10, 2025:
Ballet-comedy show Tutu dances into Quebec for the first time. Friendship and history in Entre nous sommes entre nous at Théâtre aux Écuries. And VME presents Fever Dream, a surreal improvised 'dreamscape'.
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April 3, 2025:
Two women look back in Entre nous sommes entre nous at Théâtre aux Écuries. Circus show Paperplane makes its Montreal debut. And: Montreal Clown Festival expands its clown shoe footprint!
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March 27, 2025:
Happy World Theatre Day! Jimmy Blais on bringing Jordan, the story of a Cree boy who changed Canada, to the stage. Teesri Duniya's Keffiyeh/Made in China. And Montreal Natyanjali marks 10 years of Indian classical dance.
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March 20, 2025:
Imago's Scorpio Moon rekindles a friendship in a warehouse. Justine A Chambers' The Brutal Joy is a devotion to Black living. Nien Tzu Weng's The Lightest Dark is Darker Than the Darkest Light at the MAI.
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March 13, 2025:
Separating the art from the artist in Pain to Power: A Kanye West Musical Protest. Dancer Louise Bédard marks a big anniversary with a marathon solo show. Art Souterrain Festival includes live theatre from Frédéric Barbusci of Productions de L'Instable.
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March 6, 2025:
Dane Stewart brings podcast Resurrection to the stage. Real-life families perform in Paysages en filiation: we will speak with one of the parent actors. Lakeshore Light Opera puts on The Pirates of Penzance!
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February 27, 2025:
We look at two WinterWorks shows: Bud <3 looks at young people and the pandemic and For Everyone One Stuck Chasing the Clock examines the constraints of chronic illness. Plus, a new way to find under-produced French-language plays in Canada.
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February 20, 2025:
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February 13, 2025:
MainLine Theatre is looking for a new home. Executive director Amy Blackmore tells us what's ahead for the Main fixture. Storyteller Fano Maddix shares a centuries-old Acadian folk tale. And Johnny Legdick is back for Valentine's Day weekend!
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February 6, 2025:
The stages of life come together in Cycle, a wordless spin on a graphic novel at Espace Libre. BTW's Vierge explores adolescence through the eyes of Bien-Aimé, played by Symantha Stewart. Robert LePage and Guillaume Côté put a balletic spin on Hamlet.
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January 30, 2025:
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January 23, 2025:
Alice in 24 is a 'wild' queer revisting of the Lewis Carroll tale. McGill Arts Undergrad puts on Company. Simik Komaksiutiksak on her new dance piece, Anxiety, at the MAI.
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January 16, 2025:
Centaur's Strawberries in January musically translates a classic Québéc play. Adina Katz sparks a musical improv scene in Montreal. And Infinitheatre premieres Sinkole, a play about community and the fear of vanishing.
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January 9, 2025:
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January 2, 2025:
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