Gillian Anderson will take on one of the most controversial roles an actress can play on the stage… playing Nora in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House.

Gillian Anderson will take on one of the most controversial roles an actress can play on the stage… playing Nora in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House.

Montreal technical death metal band Neuraxis will bring the heavy back into record stores on July 22 with the release of their fifth studio album, The Thin Line Between, through Proesthetic Records.

For more than 25 years, the Canadian troupe La La La Human Steps has been hailed as one of the world’s leading and most radical contemporary dance companies since it was founded by Moroccan-born Edouard Lock in 1980. At age 3 in 1957, Lock moved to Montreal, where he grew up and embarked on his career as a choreographer at age 20, working with several companies before striking out on his own and …

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra saw a boost in both single ticket sales and subscriptions in the 2007-8 season with house capacity averaging 88 per cent.

Okay, okay, okay. I thought we were done with talking about Luminato. And I was, I really was, I swear. I even moved on to doing other things like the art reviewing and artist/curator interviewing that pay the rent when I’m not Spacing-ing out. And then, in the course of an (initally) innocent interview with Musee [...]

The Fast and the Spurious Babylon A.D. is a futuristic thriller kinda movie starring Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, and this guy . From what I gather from the preview I saw before The Happening and a sentence on IMDB , it sounds a bit like Children of Men without all the stuff that should’ve won that one some Oscars. Seems like the kind of flick that an Ibiza resident DJ …

If you’re looking to meet Michel Côté, try Westmount. Côté ( Cruising Bar , C.R.A.Z.Y. and Broue ) is certainly one of the biggest and most enduring stars of Quebec stage and screen, and says that he’s still a nonentity in certain parts of Montreal.

Lewis Furey has the jitters. This makes sense, since, as he puts it, “I haven’t done a concert in 20-some-odd years. In my 20s I used to play little cabarets in Paris and Montreal and think nothing of it - but that was a long time ago.

King Khan has been recording some up-and-coming artists in his Berlin studio, selects his favorite song about venereal diseases, and praises one of the world’s most amazing kitchen appliances. [Interview: Tyler Grisham]

Here are some of the events in the city this weekend. For more entertainment listings, be sure to check out our Weekday Planner, Stage, Clubs and Galleries listings.