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Video: Backstage at Cirque du Soleil's Totem

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Director Robert Lepage, choreographer Jeff Hall and a tour of backstage.

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Video: Harvey and Elwood and RH Thomson

Actor RH Thomson previews scenes from the classic play Harvey and talks about his character, Elwood P. Dowd and Elwood's best friend, the giant invisible rabbit named Harvey.

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Cirque's new show TOTEM

Starts April 22 and goes through to June 27 in Montreal's Old Port

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Philippe Racine cuts an arresting figure in the title role of Macbeth, playing in French and Creole at the Segal Centre.

Review: Macbeth, version Creole

Macbeth in dreads. Banquo on bongos. Duncan as a gangsta with a gun. Lady Macbeth flicking a fan.

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Stage & Page: Latest from around Montreal

Tortured Catholicism meets the Theatre of the Absurd in Quebec playwright Michel Marc Bouchard’s The Madonna Painter.

Review: The Madonna Painter

Visions of Quebec in 1918 the dark side of religion

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Belles Soeurs is breakthrough masterpiece

For a few ecstatic moments during intermission at Wednesday night's opening of Belles Soeurs, I thought I had found the Great Quebec musical, at last.

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Doctor in Centaur's Madonna Painter has cred

Actor Jean Leclerc, who spent a significant part of his career gazing deep into the eyes of Erica Kane (Susan Lucci), among others, in the American soap opera All My Children, is now demonstrating his bedside manner as the village doctor in Michel Marc Bouchard's The Madonna Painter at Centaur Theatre.

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Video: Centaur's The Madonna Painter

Marie-Thérèse Fortin plays Germaine Lauzon in Les Belles-Soeurs, based on Michel Tremblay’s groundbreaking 1965 play.

Yesterday’s Quebec is today's musical

Michel Tremblay’s Les Belles Soeurs, music of Beau Dommage reinterpreted as musicals

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Festival TransAmériques: Full line-up unveiled

Line-dancing Le tres grand continental among acts for May 27-June 12 fest

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Joe (right, Neil Napier) and Victor (Howard Rosenstein) have a brotherly discussion about money in Father Land.

Two brothers, two worlds, parallel stories

Mosul, Iraq, and Westmount, Quebec. Now there's a bizarre pair of twinned cities.

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Patrice Robitaille, Pascale Bussières and Julie Le Breton, in Huis clo at Theatre du Nouveau Monde

In hell's drawing room, members of a ménage à trois confront big questions

Theatre Review -- Huis Clos

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Arthur Holden had to confront the ghost of his father, Richard Holden, a party-switching politician who committed suicide in 2005.

A look at sons, fathers, brothers

Anyone who caught Arthur Holden's hilarious performance as a maniacal pill-popping journalist in David Sherman's The Daily Miracle last month, won't want to miss the Infinitheatre production of his first full-length play, Father Land, which just opened at Le Bain St. Michel.

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