English theatre shines in Montréal

Musicals, comedy and drama!

Montréal’s two big English-language theatres – the venerable Centaur Theatre Company in Old Montréal, and the Sylvan Adams Theatre at the Segal Centre for the Performing Arts in the west end – offer varied programming.

Segal Centre for Performing Arts

The Segal season closes with a Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre production of Di Shvegerins (Les Belles-sœurs in Yiddish), a powerful reimagining of Quebec icon Michel Tremblay’s classic 1965 play celebrating language, culture and the resilience of working-class women. Runs to June 28.

Centaur Theatre

The Centaur hosts its 18th annual benefit gala Stories in the Spotlight on June 18 with host Terry DiMonte, featuring comedy legend Joey Elias, and Montréal’s Queen of Jazz Ranee Lee and her band.

Shakespeare in the Park

A professional theatre company and non-profit arts organization, Montréal’s beloved Repercussion Theatre is best-known for its annual Shakespeare-in-the-Park summer tour. 

This summer Repercussion presents Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale brought to life by UnCanon Theatre’s all-Black-and-brown cast, designers, and director in an enchanting Nubian-futuristic world, where Afrofuturism allows audiences to imagine beyond the urgency of the now.

The tour runs from July 21 to August 15 with stops in the Eastern Townships, the West Island, and in the Montreal area, including Parc Jarry (July 22), Mount Royal Cemetery in Outremont (July 24), Parc Georges Saint-Pierre in NDG (August 5), Parc Strathearn in Montreal West (August 9), McGill University (August 11), and four presentations in Westmount Park (August 12 to 15). Click here for the complete schedule

Running time: 120 minutes plus intermission. Presented in English, with French subtitles via a free web app.Showtime: 7p.m. nightly. Free admission.

Other theatre

The Montreal School of Performing Arts presents Was Ever Woman..., a laugh-out-loud evening of five short comedies adapted and directed by Daisy Thomas. From fairy-tale princesses and classic Shakespeare to modern superheroes and clueless angels, this fast-paced show takes a tongue-in-cheek look at what happens when iconic female characters refuse to stick to the script. Runs July 10 to 12 at the UNIA Building (2741 Notre Dame Ouest) in Little Burgundy.

The Hudson Village Theatre presents the Québec premiere of The Rules of Playing Risk by acclaimed Canadian playwright Kristen Da Silva. Produced and directed by Trevor Barrette, this heartfelt and humorous intergenerational comedy explores family, forgiveness, and the courage it takes to reconnect across generations. Runs July 8 to 19.

Hudson Village Theatre also presents legendary playwright NeilSimon’s Last of the Red Hot Lovers, a comedy about an ordinary man who quietly questions the predictability of his comfortable life and wonders what it might mean to step, however cautiously, beyond it. Runs August 19 to 30.

The acclaimed all-drag cast of Golden Girls: The Laughs Continue spoofs the iconic sitcom at Théâtre St-Denis on August 9. This all-new show for adult audiences finds Sophia out on bail after being busted by the DEA for running a drug ring at Shady Pines. Blanche and Rose have founded CreakN, a thriving sex app for seniors. And Dorothy is trying to hold it all together, with help from her much younger, sex-crazed love interest. 

From Broadway to Montréal

evenko and Broadway Across Canada present smash hit touring productions at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier. Their 2026 Broadway season includes triumphant return of Disney’s THE LION KING for a whopping 24 performances (August 19 to September 6), and the smash hit musical Mamma Mia! launches their 2026-2027 season with eight performances (October 13 to 18).

French theatre

There are many French-language plays and theatres in Montréal.

The French-language version of the hilarious Broadway jukebox musical TITANÍQUE featuring the music of Celine Dion headlines the Studio St-Denis at Espace St-Denis to August 23.