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Optative Theatrical Laboratories is thrilled to bring CAR STORIES to the 2014 Buffalo Infringement Festival! Kicked out of the Montreal Fringe Festival in 2001, Car Stories sparked the creation of infringement festivals! Set in real cars, 3 people at a time are invited on a theatrical joyride through the streets and parking lots of Allentown. […]

At the northern end of Montreal’s Victoria Bridge, criss-crossed by an urban blight of highways, railway tracks, parking lots, electricity pylons and industrial billboards, lies an old Irish Famine cemetery. It is a hallowed place in Montreal’s dark history that witnessed tragedy unfold in 1847, as typhus-stricken Irish immigrants disembarked after harrowing conditions at sea […]