Centaur Theatre Company News

Centaur Theatre Company will present the world premiere of Pascale Rafie's THE BAKLAWA RECIPE, running January 23rd through February 18th.

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.

A new line-up of plays and much more were revealed at Centaur Theatre's 49th season launch this afternoon.

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

A new line-up of plays and much more were revealed at Centaur Theatre's 49th season launch this afternoon.

After dazzling audiences in London's West End and on Broadway, Canadian Stage is proud to bring the international hit Constellations by British playwright Nick Payne to Toronto in a new production directed by the award-winning Peter Hinton (Shaw Festival). On stage at the Bluma Appel Theatre from November 8-27, Constellations stars Cara Ricketts and Graham Cuthbertson as two people finding love in multiple universes.

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.

After dazzling audiences in London's West End and on Broadway, Canadian Stage is proud to bring the international hit Constellations by British playwright Nick Payne to Toronto in a new production directed by the award-winning Peter Hinton (Shaw Festival). On stage at the Bluma Appel Theatre from November 8-27, Constellations stars Cara Ricketts and Graham Cuthbertson as two people finding love in multiple universes.

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.

Centaur Theatre Company is pleased to announce that Centaur's 12th Annual Fundraising Gala, BON VOYAGE! will be co-chaired by Martin R. Landry, Chief Commercial Officer at VIA Rail Canada and Luc Papineau, Vice- President and General Manager at Desjardins Wealth Management Securities.

Artistic and Executive Director, Roy Surette, assures that theatre lovers will be SWEPT AWAY by Centaur Theatre's 48th season.

The Toronto theatre community came together on Tuesday to express outrage on social media over the lack of diversity on the announced creative teams for productions in Canadian Stage's 2016-2017 season.

Montreal's English theatre community gathered in celebration at the beautiful and historic Rialto Theatre on Monday October 26th for the 3rd annual METAs ceremony, honouring excellence in Montreal English theatre for the 2014-2015 Season.

The Montreal English Theatre Awards, or METAs, were established in 2012 as a response to the need for the Montreal English Theatre community to promote and encourage their visibility and successes provincially, nationally and internationally. These peer-juried awards celebrate the artistic work that is outstanding in Montreal English Theatre, promote professional and emerging English theatre artists & companies and facilitate a level of critical discourse.

Richard Greenberg's Pulitzer Prize-nominated play, Three Days of Rain, opens on Portland Center Stage's U.S. Bank Main Stage on May 22, with preview performances beginning May 17, 2015.

Centaur Theatre welcomes back Montreal playwright, Vittorio Rossi, with his latest play, The Envelope, a comedy-drama anchored in the complex Canadian film industry. The production will run tonight, March 24 to April 19, 2015.

Centaur Theatre welcomes back Montreal playwright, Vittorio Rossi, with his latest play, The Envelope, a comedy-drama anchored in the complex Canadian film industry. The production will run March 24 to April 19, 2015.

This winter, Canadian Stage remounts the phenomenally popular Venus in Fur for a third and final run. Providing an alternative to traditional holiday theatre offerings, 'the other nutcracker' is back for 13 shows only Dec. 18 to 28 at the intimate Berkeley Street Theatre (26 Berkeley St.). Rick Miller and Carly Street reprise their roles in this Dora Award-nominated production, with direction by Jennifer Tarver. Venus in Fur returns to Toronto fresh off another successful run at Montreal's Centaur Theatre Company, where it was hailed as 'a rare perfect storm of brilliant script, inspired direction and powerful acting' (Montreal Gazette).

This year marks the 10th anniversary of Centaur Theatre Company's annual fundraising gala. Preparations are in full swing for Ooh La La!, which will take place on September 30th, 2014. This landmark event promises to be a scintillating start to Centaur's Shocking and Delightful 46th season. This year's gala will also honour Maurice Podbrey, Centaur's Founding Artistic Director, in celebration of his 80th birthday.

INTRODUCING Montreal's newest English-language professional theatre collective and it's site-specific production of POOL (NO WATER) by Mark Ravenhill. Theatre of The Black Butterfly is the brainchild of Gordon McCall, former artistic director of Montreal's Centaur Theatre Company. "Our Theatre of The Black Butterfly motto is 'Defying Convention'. We want to make provocative theatre that challenges theatrical preconceptions, that is site-specific and that celebrates Montreal,' says McCall.