festival transameriques
iPhoto caption: Uma and Selma Gahd at Les Prix Frankies. Photo by Cindy Lopez.
Hot off covering Festival TransAmériques, Intermission is back reviewing Montreal theatre at this year’s FringeMTL, featuring 105 shows in more than 25 venues.
iPhoto caption: 'Vampyr.' Photo by Nicolas Calderon.
REVIEWS: Festival TransAmériques 2026
The 20th edition of Montreal’s FTA does right by its name, featuring a curated lineup of 25 theatre and dance productions with roots mostly in the Americas. This year, Intermission presents its most comprehensive FTA coverage ever, with four critics publishing a total of 16 capsule reviews — responses that will appear below over the course of the two-week festival.
iPhoto caption: 'Lacrima' photo by Christophe Raynaud de Lage.
REVIEW: Montreal’s boundary-pushing Festival TransAmériques wrestles with art’s larger purpose
While I only saw a small portion of FTA's deftly constructed, 20-show lineup, I observed in this year’s programming a definite commitment to platforming artists interested in questioning theatre’s relationship to the real world.
REVIEW: Festival TransAmériques — Weekend Two
Bonjour hi encore – et mon dieu, so many festivals!