Wednesday, March 7, 2018
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 09:00PMFriday, February 23, 2018
It’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 05:31PMTuesday, February 20, 2018
Lynn 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 04:12PMFriday, February 16, 2018
Bare-bones play poses uncomfortable questions on utility’s purpose and policies.
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 08:42PMFriday, January 26, 2018
The 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 06:00AMMonday, January 22, 2018
Opera opening in Montreal creates a fictional dream world from the night before John F. Kennedy's assassination
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:42PMTuesday, December 19, 2017
After 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 02:23PMFriday, November 24, 2017
At MAC exhibition, Clara Furey pays tribute to one of Canada’s most famous voices in silence
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:38PMFriday, November 17, 2017
A 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 03:43PMTuesday, September 26, 2017
Chouinard transforms Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights in a three-act work
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:40PMMonday, May 29, 2017
Runaway Girl is about the persistence of memory while 7 Pleasures explores getting rid of memory and starting over
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:13PMMonday, May 8, 2017
Despite bringing the usual marvels that come along with a Cirque production, the new show has numerous dull patches
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:54PMThursday, April 13, 2017
Les Grands Ballets Canadiens is one of four dance organizations moving into new quarters at the Espace Danse
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:59PMFriday, March 24, 2017
Audience regeneration is a problem for proscenium arts companies all over North America, but Montreal poses special challenges
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:02PMMonday, March 20, 2017
Theatre 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 04:13PMFriday, March 17, 2017
Centre de Création O Vertigo and Les Deux Mondes have become hubs for developing new creative work
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:30PMFriday, March 3, 2017
Producers 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 02:23PMFriday, January 27, 2017
Despite being written in 1956, the opera's themes are easily relevant to current conditions
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 03:45PMFriday, December 16, 2016
L’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 03:22PMThursday, December 1, 2016
National 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 05:00AMFriday, November 11, 2016
Annabel Soutar’s Fredy documents the 2008 shooting death by Montreal police of Fredy Villanueva
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:03PMWednesday, November 2, 2016
Nederlands Dans Theater brings performance to Montreal’s Place des Arts
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 01:57PMMonday, July 25, 2016
Mike Ward may appear like a free-speech martyr, but comedians could learn some humility
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 02:57PMWednesday, June 8, 2016
Jérôme Bel brings a kind of movement karaoke to Festival TransAmériques
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 04:00PMFriday, May 27, 2016
Bilingual comedy is Swiss director Christoph Marthaler’s very loose adaptation of La Poudre aux yeux
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 12:47PMFriday, May 20, 2016
Hamlet 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 02:54PMTuesday, May 3, 2016
Luzia 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 03:30PMTuesday, April 26, 2016
Friday, April 15, 2016
A tale about strip joint the Gayety plays fast and loose with facts, but lovingly
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 11:20AMSunday, March 20, 2016
A 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 12:00PMMonday, March 14, 2016
Avec 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 
