Lachlan Stewart

Imaginative new play explores parent/child dynamics in Scapegoat Carnivale's production at Centaur Theatre's Wildside Festival. Darkly absurd fable by Joseph Shragge delves into parental anxiety with humor. Jan. 31-Feb. 3.

Centaur Theatre will present the in-person return of WILDSIDE FESTIVAL 2023, featuring a thought provoking collection of experimental artistry with five theatre works, curated by Rose Plotek.

​​​​​​​Wildfire is a tragicomedy as fiercely dark as any from classical Greece. Structured as a generational triptych, it is set in a triplex inhabited by twisted triplets with a toxic family heritage. In this magnificently constructed spiral of fatality, multiple award-winning playwright David Paquet attacks our failing collective consciousness and the ensuing general apathy.

This February, Young People's Theatre journeys across cultures and time with Travelling Tales from Quebec's boundary-breaking Théâtre Motus. Available in both English and French for homes and classrooms, this online production features four performers animating West African, Mohawk and French-Canadian tales.

Today, TIFT Artistic Director Michael Torontow and CEO Arkady Spivak announced details of the company's upcoming Winter Season of eclectic in-person, online and hybrid theatrical experiences. The winter programming invites audiences to engage with fresh perspectives on a variety of divisive subjects faced today.   

The new programming venture will showcase nine conceptual adaptations of multi-character works, in which all roles will be played by a single actor, and in two cases by two actors, using in-person, virtual or hybrid platforms. Works will premiere gradually over the next two seasons, alongside TIFT’s regular scope of programming.

The pandemic has caused great disruption in the theatre community. Yet, with ever-present hope for the light at the end of the tunnel, and encouraged by museums opening and ongoing film and television production in the city, Montreal theatre companies in all their diversity have again risen to the occasion and persevered.

Pi Theatre will present its 2021 Provocateurs Presentation Series with Macbeth Muet, an innovative interpretation of Shakespeare’s play performed by two actors using elaborate sound design, physical theatre, and the manipulation of inanimate objects to represent the play’s characters.

The Cole Foundation is pleased to announce the latest grant winners for the Intercultural Conversations-Conversations Interculturelles (IC-CI) programme, initiated to encourage greater understanding of Montreal's cultural mosaic by having audiences enjoy professional plays that present stories and issues of diversity on stage. For the past ten years the Foundation has focused on intercultural and racialized theatrical conversations for their community initiatives. This has created an award-winning catalogue incorporating themes of inclusion and cultural dialogue. Adding to those, the programme has now expanded to include stories with and about other marginalized communities such as LGBTQ and people with a disability. This year $490,400 was granted, the highest amount of award money since the IC-CI programme's launch.

Puzzle Piece presents The Little Prince: Reimagined - a fresh, high-energy, modern adaptation of the classic novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. It's the familiar tale of a pilot who encounters a mysterious boy after he crashes his plane in the desert, told anew through object puppetry. You'll never look at a paper plane the same way again.

For her first turn at bat curating Montreal's "hottest 2 weeks of winter", Eda Holmes hits a home run with an A-list of trailblazing, quick-fix theatre, from zoological spoken word to Greek tragedy object puppetry and everything in between. See the full schedule below.

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

From September 6 to 10, the Hudson Village Theatre (HVT) remounts the 2016 production of RustWerk ReFinery's LOUIS RIEL: A Comic-Strip Stage Play.

From September 6 to 10, the Hudson Village Theatre (HVT) remounts the 2016 production of RustWerk ReFinery's LOUIS RIEL: A Comic-Strip Stage Play.

Coal Mine Theatre is proud to present its second Tracy Letts play with the Canadian premiere of SUPERIOR DONUTS, February 5-26, 2017. Following last season's sold-out smash hit Killer Joe, (the Coal Mine's biggest seller alongside this year's Breathing Corpses) by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and Tony Award-winning actor Tracy Letts, SUPERIOR DONUTS is directed by Ted Dykstra, starring Robert Persichini and introducing Nabil Rajo.

Coal Mine Theatre is proud to present its second Tracy Letts play with the Canadian premiere of SUPERIOR DONUTS, February 5-26, 2017. Following last season's sold-out smash hit Killer Joe, (the Coal Mine's biggest seller alongside this year's Breathing Corpses) by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and Tony Award-winning actor Tracy Letts, SUPERIOR DONUTS is directed by Ted Dykstra, starring Robert Persichini and introducing Nabil Rajo.

Montreal's English theatre community gathered in celebration at the beautiful and historic Rialto Theatre on Monday October 24th for the 4thannual METAs ceremony, honouring excellence in Montreal English theatre for the 2015-2016 Season.

A QUEST for fish, chips and mushy peas in the 1960s leads to a hilarious and politically incorrect caper at Melville Theatre this November and December.

The Montreal English Theatre Awards (METAs) recognize and celebrate outstanding artistic work in Montreal's English Theatre. Established in 2012, the peer-juried awards exist to 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 amongst artists and with the community at large.