This beautiful old theater was rescued from the brink of destruction by the National Theatre School; until the early 1970s it was largely neglected. Now the home of all NTS productions, this historic monument also plays host to dozens of other theater productions throughout the year. The Ludger-Duvernay Theatre, which seats over 800, is a classic 19th-century hall with a balcony and orchestra... more

Built in Montreal in 1893, the Monument-National was for decades an essential stop for the great French, English, and Yiddish vaudevillians, as well as stars like Edith Piaf, Emma Albani, and Maurice Schwartz. It once housed the Starland, one of the first cinemas in North America. Quebec’s first feminist launched their campaigns here in the 1900s. Fully renovated for its one-hundredth... more