English theatre shines in Montréal
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Theatre goers will enjoy blockbuster dramas, rip-roaring comedies and smash hit musicals produced by some of Canada and Montréal’s most exciting professional and independent English-language theatre companies this Spring 2025.
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 opens their 2025-2026 season with the heartfelt comedy Big Stuff co-starring acclaimed comedy duo Matt Baram (The Umbrella Academy, Painkiller) and Naomi Snieckus (Pretty Hard Cases, Mr. D) who blend storytelling and improvisation to explore all the stuff that gets left behind when we lose someone. Runs August 31 to September 21.
Centaur Theatre
The Centaur opens their 2025-2026 season in early autumn, with the culmination of their inaugural Indigenous Artist Residency: Stone and Bone Spectacular is a playful and profound look at the history of Tioh’tià:ke featuring dancing beavers, stone-lifting stunts and long-lost lovers. Runs October 15 to 26.
Shakespeare-in-the-Park
Each summer some 13,000 theatre lovers gather in parks in and around Montréal to delight in the language of the Bard and the magic of live theatre. Repercussion Theatre’s Shakespeare-in-the-Park 2025 summer tour with Persephone productions presents Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, directed and adapted by Rebecca Gibian and Adam Capriolo. Runs July 24 to August 17. Click here for the full schedule at a park near you.
Other theatre
Produced and directed by Trevor Barrette, the Hudson Village Theatre presents playwright Mark Crawford’s heartfelt comedy Bed & Breakfast about a gay couple who inherit the historic family home in a quiet little tourist town. After opening their B&B, the couple discover “being out” in small-town Canada and finding a place to call home is more complicated than they thought. Runs July 9 to 20.
Then Hudson Village Theatre presents legendary playwright Neil Simon’s classic comedy The Odd Couple from August 3 to 24.
La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines presents The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee about an eclectic group of awkward spelling champions who learn that winning (and losing) isn’t everything. Ensemble cast of acclaimed Montréal actors directed by Cat Preston. Runs July 23 to 27.
The hilarious all-drag-cast touring production The Golden Girls: The Laughs Continue returns to Théâtre St-Denis with an all-new show: 2025 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. For ages 18+. Two shows only, September 25 at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Dawson College’s Professional Theatre Department 2025-2026 season begins in September at Dawson’s gorgeous New Dome Theatre.
Also, click here for updates on upcoming National Theatre School productions at the Monument-National.
From Broadway to Montréal
Evenko and Broadway Across Canada present HAMILTON, the epic saga that follows the rise of U.S. Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. Presented at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier from August 19 to September 7.
French theatre
There are many French-language plays and theatres in Montréal.
Juste Pour Rire presents the French-language adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway musical Chicago starring showbiz legend Véronic DiCaire as Roxie Hart, at Théâtre St-Denis from June 21 to July 27.
The Québec adaptation of the French classic La Cage aux Folles returns for an encore run at the Studio-Cabaret at Espace St-Denis featuring an all-star cast complemented by bonafide Montréal drag stars. Runs October 8 to 11.
Click here for more French-language theatre in Montréal.
Richard Burnett
Richard “Bugs” Burnett is a Canadian freelance writer, editor, journalist, blogger and columnist for alt-weeklies, mainstream and LGBTQ+ publications. Bugs also knows Montréal like a drag queen knows a cosmetics counter.