What’s on in Montréal courtesy of Tourisme Montréal
CLASSICAL MUSIC
The Orchestre Métropolitain presents Grammy-winning OM Maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin closing the OM season with Songs of Hope at the Maison Symphonique at Place des Arts on June 14.
The Lyric Theatre Singers will present their annual show June 11-13
THEATRE
A festival of contemporary dance and theatre, the star-studded 20th edition of the internationally-acclaimed Festival TransAmériques presents some 25 shows to June 10. Click here for full festival programming.
Montréal theatre legend Vittorio Rossi directs the Pulitzer–winning Broadway drama ‘night, Mother by Marsha Norman, about the complex bond between parent and child, starring Alarey Alsip and Pauline Little, at the Leonardo Da Vinci Centre. Runs June 10 to 13.
St. Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival runs June 1-21, including performances by drag performers Uma Gahd and Slema Gahd
Despite the recent passing of their artistic director Bob Bachelor, The Lyric Theatre Singers will present Broadway with Love – 40 performers accompanied by a full band performing standards from the musical theatre canon – at the gorgeous state-of-the-art downtown Concordia Theatre from June 11 to 13. As they say, the show must go on!
After a record-breaking 2025 edition, the bilingual St-Ambroise Montréal Fringe Festival returns June 1 to 21 when 500 artists from some 90 producing companies present more than 800 indoor performances at this year’s 36th edition. Outdoor free programming at the hugely popular Fringe Park – located at Parc des Ameriques, corner Rachel and St-Laurent – features live bands, plus the festival’s marquee event Drag Race (June 13) hosted by Uma Gahd and Selma Gahd, featuring professional drag stars versus Fringe fest beauties in a knock-down Battle Royale of skill-testing obstacles!
Virtual reality experience ROME continues at Palais de congrès until June 28
EXHIBITIONS
The Hinge Points: Gabor Szilasi’s Photographic Angle exhibition in McGill University’s McLennan Library Building displays photographic prints by the famed photographer of Montréal during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Runs to June 20.
Montréal’s Studio Shaman presents the virtual reality experience ROME, In Caesar’s Footsteps at the Palais des congrès de Montréal, transporting audiences back 2,000 years to the assassination of Julius Caesar. A free-roam VR adventure, visitors explore a meticulously reconstructed Rome: Caesar’s private gardens, the Forum Romanum, the Curia of Pompey where the Senate vote takes place, military camps in Gaul, and the Circus Maximus. With hand-tracking motion capture, participants interact naturally with scenes—voting by raising their hands, handling objects, and influencing key moments. Two different endings are possible depending on the choices made along the journey. Runs to June 28.
Writer, director and star John Cameron Mitchell will screen a 4K restoration of his 2001 cult movie musical Hedwig & the Angry Inch
Photo: Matthew Placek
CINEMA
Created with the blessing of the iconic rock band, Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon screens under the starry dome of the Planétarium on Fridays and Saturdays until June 21. This show merges the original musical score with spectacular visuals of the solar system and immersive effects in a surround-sound environment.
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the landmark film Hedwig & the Angry Inch adapted from his off-Broadway hit, writer, director and star John Cameron Mitchell will screen a 4K restoration of the 2001 cult movie musical at Théâtre Beanfield on June 30, followed by a live post-screening conversation, audience Q&A and a special acoustic performance, as well as post-show meet-and-greets.
Montreal soulman Clerel headlines A Donny Hathaway Tribute on June 6
COMEDY
Canadian comic Tom Green brings his Stompin’ Comedy Tour to Théâtre Beanfield on June 13, and Comedy Central superstar Daniel Tosh headlines the Olympia Theatre on June 28.
Dawn Tyler Watson headlines her Jazz Project at the jazz festival with a free show at Le Studio TD on June 26
The Montreal International Jazz Festival will run June 25 to July 4
POP MUSIC
Sacramento rock band Cake at the Olympia Theatre (June 3), Australian punk rockers Amyl and The Sniffers at Place Bell (June 5), Canadian rockers Arkells Théâtre Beanfield (June 5), Canadian rock icons Triumph at Place Bell (June 10), Grammy-winning Australian electronic dance music trio RÜFÜS DU SOL at Parc Jean-Drapeau (June 20), country-rock icon Steve Earle at Théâtre Beanfield (June 25), RnB Hip Hop legends NE-YO & AKON bring their co-headliner Nights Like This Tour to the Bell Centre (June 26), goth alt-rockers Evanescence at Bell Centre (June 30), and Father John Misty at MTELUS (June 30).
Concerts of note: Montreal soulman Clerel headlines Clerel & Friends: A Donny Hathaway Tribute at O Patro Vys (June 6).
Montréal’s international Queen of the Blues Dawn Tyler Watson headlines her Jazz Project at the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, a free show at Le Studio TD on June 26. The 46th edition of the jazz fest runs June 25 to July 4. Click here for all performing artists and concerts.
Dubbed “Mr. Montreal” by the CBC, arts and culture journalist and columnist Richard “Bugs” Burnett knows Montreal like a drag queen knows a cosmetics counter.