Medhi Walerski has given up a commission for next season after widespread criticism that the program for which he was hired would not feature any women
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 09:00PMIt’s the Canadian premiere of Champion, about real-life boxer Emile Griffith, who killed an opponent in the ring in 1962.
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:31PMLynn Kozak’s Happy Hour Homer is part of her ongoing research into how Homer’s epics would have been made digestible for their first live audiences
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:12PMBare-bones play poses uncomfortable questions on utility’s purpose and policies.
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 08:42PMThe new $54-million complex, Le Diamant, will offer a venue and incubator for Canadian and international theatre-related art
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 06:00AMOpera opening in Montreal creates a fictional dream world from the night before John F. Kennedy's assassination
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:42PMAfter a fond farewell to former artistic director Gradimir Pankov, Ivan Cavallari takes the reins at the venerable Montreal troupe – and he's wasting no time veering company in a new …
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:23PMAt MAC exhibition, Clara Furey pays tribute to one of Canada’s most famous voices in silence
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:38PMA rival event is being debated as the creator of the popular comedy juggernaut is toppled by sexual-misconduct allegations
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:43PMChouinard transforms Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights in a three-act work
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:40PMRunaway Girl is about the persistence of memory while 7 Pleasures explores getting rid of memory and starting over
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:13PMDespite bringing the usual marvels that come along with a Cirque production, the new show has numerous dull patches
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:54PMLes Grands Ballets Canadiens is one of four dance organizations moving into new quarters at the Espace Danse
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:59PMAudience regeneration is a problem for proscenium arts companies all over North America, but Montreal poses special challenges
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:02PMTheatre director Peter Brook and dancer-choreographer Akram Khan distill different episodes from the Mahabharata into presentations lasting not much more than an hour
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:13PMCentre de Création O Vertigo and Les Deux Mondes have become hubs for developing new creative work
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:30PMProducers are reworking the band's classic album The Wall – but can they really keep the English rock band's fan base coming back to the theatre?
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:23PMDespite being written in 1956, the opera's themes are easily relevant to current conditions
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:45PML’Opéra de Montréal wants to tell stories that are rarely told in their art form, and involving the subjects every step of the way
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:22PMNational Arts Centre expects to invest the money in 15 to 20 projects a year, which do not have to appear on its stages
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:00AMAnnabel Soutar’s Fredy documents the 2008 shooting death by Montreal police of Fredy Villanueva
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:03PMNederlands Dans Theater brings performance to Montreal’s Place des Arts
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:57PMMike Ward may appear like a free-speech martyr, but comedians could learn some humility
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:57PMJérôme Bel brings a kind of movement karaoke to Festival TransAmériques
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:00PMBilingual comedy is Swiss director Christoph Marthaler’s very loose adaptation of La Poudre aux yeux
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:47PMHamlet is the best template for the province’s sovereignty, and may be even better as a frame for any PQ leadership campaign
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:54PMLuzia sees characters clad in gossamer wings, iguana heads and cockroach costumes amid surreal evocations of the country’s culture
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:30PMHow do you reinvent the recognizable?
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 10:33AMA tale about strip joint the Gayety plays fast and loose with facts, but lovingly
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 11:20AMA sudden loss of funding for Montreal’s dance-oriented centre left room to focus more on residencies and service to artists
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:00PMAvec pas d’coeur, by Montreal dance company Maï(g)wenn et les Orteils, explores the difference in emotional perspectives of three dancers with unusual genetic conditions
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:02PM