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Archives from 2023

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    December 14, 2023: Writer Jonas Gardell's tales of gay life in Sweden come to Montreal. Feedback is an audio drama about customer service. Sandrine Rastello explains the appeal of documentary theatre in Quebec. And meet celebrity impressionist André-Philippe Gagnon! | Playlist | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    December 7, 2023: It's camping season at La Tohu! Designing Antigonek at NTS. Laurent Pitre joins the resurrection of naughty Xmas special, Contes Urbains. Eda Holmes of Centaur on the theatre's upcoming homage for David Fennario. | Playlist | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    November 30, 2023: Mother-daughter team performs Creatrix at the MAI. NTS directing students on working with pros. And the busy Amy Blackmore gets a little busier. | Playlist | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    November 23, 2023: Michaela Di Cesare examines beauty and identity in Extra / Beautiful / U. Véro Lachance's Derniere frontière on romancing the Yukon. And a three-hour meditation on listening. | Playlist | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    November 16, 2023: Jake Epstein of Degrassi High fame on his solo show about pursuing Broadway dreams. Writer Christopher Morris examines people who rush to volunteer in conflict zones. Kenny Streule on being named the Unsung Hero of the Theatre! | Playlist | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    November 9, 2023: Gilmore Girls star Yanic Truesdale stars in Docteure. Maria Kefirova 'reappropriates the imagination.' Katia-Marie Germain choreographs Mascarades. | Playlist | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    November 2, 2023: CKUTer Kym Dominique-Ferguson on his new play. Writers David Paquet and Leanna Brodie share a national prize. And the scoop on the upcoming METAs! | Playlist (Playlist still being updated) | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    October 26, 2023: Krista Jackson makes her debut as AD at Imago Theatre with The Retreat. Grammy- and Pulitzer-winning artist Caroline Shaw on her collab, Graveyards and Gardens. An emerging writer explains his vision of a future without human art. | Playlist | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    October 19, 2023: Playwright Drew Hayden Taylor on his dinner party comedy of manner alterNatives at Centaur, celebrating 30 years of the Montreal Intercultural Storytelling Festival, and Nyx at La Tohu. | Playlist (Playlist still being updated) | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    October 12, 2023: Beautiful: The Carol King Musical comes to the Segal. Mizushobai: the show goes on despite the loss of its costumes. And asserting onself through dance, with Lucie Grégoire and Corpuscle. | Playlist | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    October 5, 2023: Julie Tamiko Manning writes a new play, Mizushobai. The Other Theatre's All Flesh REDUX. And What is Waacking? The dance competition comes to Phenomena Festival. | Playlist (Playlist still being updated) | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    September 28, 2023: Black Theatre Workshop launches Club Zed, a new playwriting fest. D.Kimm on the magical Festival Phénomena! And dance meets digital art in ÆMULUS. | Playlist (Playlist still being updated) | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    September 21, 2023: Remembering playwright David Fennario. Geordie's Other Worlds is an appreciation of neurodiverse voices in a time of crisis. Celebrating Place des Arts's 60th anniversary! | Playlist | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    September 14, 2023: Centaur & La Licorne team up to adapt a show about climate anxiety, a magical realism look at an eccentric Colombian family in Providencia, and six artists explore fantasy in La Fratrie's Corps et confettis. | Playlist | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    September 7, 2023: Dean Patrick Fleming directs his partner in final show for Hudson Village Theatre. Meet Miss Meow, burlesque producer and performer. And Tomato Blues mixed bill comes to MainLine. | Playlist (Playlist still being updated) | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    August 31, 2023: Intimate new play Deseo, Nuvo presents RENT, JOAT Festival co-founder HYA. | Playlist (Playlist still being updated) | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    August 24, 2023: Actor Machine, a new comedy at TSC. Ladyfest presents women- and non-binary-powered comedy. Festival FAR hits the streets! | Playlist | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    August 17, 2023: Festival Marionnette plein la rue returns to Wellington, VIttorio Rossi from stage to screen, and Dark Side of the Moon gets the immersive treatment! | Playlist | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    August 10, 2023: Dane Stewarts wraps Resurrection, Mel Mc Crae on Montreal Improv's next chapter, Jimmy Blais brings Feather Gardens to First Peoples' Fest, QDF launches a new way to learn about local theatre. | Playlist (Playlist still being updated) | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    July 27, 2023: Theatre producer Christina Saliba turns to film. Performer and producer Salty Margarita. Visual artist Danica Olders creates a mural inspired by Cirque du soleil's Echo. | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    July 20, 2023: Comic Robby Hoffman, Dancer Barbara Diabo, Travis Knights remembers the Tap Queen of Montreal, Ethel Bruneau | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    June 22, 2023: Resurrection is a queer love story and mystery about a Montreal playwright. Fausse balle is a multilingual play coming to a park near you this summer! And WISTA puts on The Prom, inspired by a true story of standing up for yourself. | Playlist | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    June 15, 2023: Fringe 2023: Muse, Death of a Starman, Huis Clos, Red Paper. Sarah speaks with performer and writer Cameryn Moore, Zaid and Pete on their sad sack TV astrologer Sal Solomon, Sandrine Rastello on updating Huis Clos and Xander and Sabrina of Red Paper. | Playlist | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    June 8, 2023: Fringe Special! Recorded at Fringe Park on June 7. | Playlist | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    May 18, 2023: Norman Nawrocki's untold tale of an anarchist Ukrainian folk heroine. Persephone transforms a theatre into a cinema in The Flick. And FTA co-director Martine Dennewald previews the 17th edition . | Playlist | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    May 11, 2023: Death poetry as an act of healing with Jassem Hindi at the MAI, Caroline Laurin-Beaucage puts dancers in glass tanks of water and sketch superstar Anders Yates comes home to Sketchfest. | Playlist | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    May 4, 2023: Lizzie Borden gets the musical treatment, come be a rock in the botanical world of Au Jardin des Potiniers, Lakeshore Players Dorval and Sketchfest is back its 15th edition! | Playlist | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    April 27, 2023: Emmanuel Schwartz on Le Partage at La Chapelle, Be Hope Heintzmann's triptych on care, meditation and transformation, and esteemed puppeteer Ronnie Burkett returns to Centaur wiith his Daisy Theatre. | Playlist | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    April 20, 2023: Cédric Delorme-Bouchard's sci-fi HR adventure in Les Employés. Hudson Village Theatre presents Norm Foster's mystery-romance A Clean Brush. La Tresse dance collective launches psychedelic new show, KIN. | Playlist | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    April 13, 2023: Contact Theatre spoofs cannabis propaganda film Reefer Madness, Joshua Harmon's Prayer for the French Republic tackles anti-semitism at the Segal Centre and choreographer Victor Quijada on Rubberband Dance's 20th anniversary show for Danse Danse. | Playlist | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    March 30, 2023: Dancer James Gnam on his new show, entre chien et loup and rising artist Michael Martini on his new work, Landscape Grindr - and how a major setback galvanized his connection to the community. + Sarah revisits recent convos with artists on ongoing shows. | Playlist | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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    March 9, 2023: Sarah speaks with Aladeen Tawfeek in Teesri Duniya's Counteroffence, Scapegoat Carnivale's Alison Darcy and Joseph Shragge and circus pair, Camille Lacelle-Wilsey and Nien Tzu Weng of Fantasy Duo. | Playlist | Pop-up listenListen | Download
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