The Secret Garden Tour offers the opportunity to explore exceptional Westmount gardens. By Patricia Dumais
Victoria Village Street Festival
Kim’s Convenience
Not a Dull Moment
Idiot: Second part
of a Stunning Trilogy
A Celebration of the Absurd at the NTS
I Musici Chamber Orchestra’s
Distant Light
The Lonely Hearts Hotel
captivates its audience
Tantalus Theatre Presents
Small-scale Gem
The business of writing today
A fond farewell to Stuart McLean
Rings: one movie too much?
“Shiksa” Kicks Off
High Lights Festival
A Cure for Wellness:
a good story wasted
Confessions of a top
100 humour blogger
Pollock is centrepiece of play
A tribute to Anna Politkovskaya
Julie Boulianne, la voix d’un ange
Fifty Shades Darker,
All Hype, No Pleasure
Phyllis Lambert, 75 Years At Work
Jordi Savall’s Venice
Gateway to the Orient
Snowglobe Theatre’s
Much Ado About Nothing
Mr Goldberg Goes To Tel Aviv
And… Wow!
Festival TransAmériques:
The 2017 Season Preview
Those who make revolution halfway…
Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)
Split, the particularity of differences
Nelly, A Successful Adaptation Gamble
Teen Zone promotes
local musical talent
Lord Byron, G. Bernard Shaw,
Gene Tunney and me
Cinegael Presents
The Best of Irish Film
Passengers: a morally challenged movie
Estrade Residence:
Dominating the Landscape
A look at Wildside 2017
Rogue One: big, splashy sidekick
Luminothérapie
colours Montreal’s winter
Kinky Boots,
extravagant choreography
A history of Westmount’s
Summit Woods
A dark descent into
inspiration’s meanders
Joketown Gives Birth
To Four Funny Playlets
Vanya and Sonia
and Masha and Spike
I Musici and Okto Echo:
An Explosive Combination
Urban Tales X: An Undead Christmas
The Pipeline That Gushes New Plays
Isabelle Huppert’s Elle:
Hard minded amorality
Dramatis Personae’s
Smoke & Mirrors
Les Idées Heureuses,
baroque music at its best
Candlelight Christmas 2016,
a holiday delight
Arrival, a departure
from the novella
Original rock musical
a sixties delight
Gallery: La Ronde
Seen from a Different Eye
Discovering the
salon du livre de Montréal
The Storied Trees of Oxford
Leonard Cohen,
He’s Our Man
The Watershed, a World
First Among All Plays
We Remember Gus O’Gorman
Revisiting The Great Gatsby At Hudson
Prom Queen: The Musical
is a Very Palpable Hit
Montreal English Theatre
Honours Its Own
The Refugee Hotel
sends a powerful message
A tragic boy-meets-girl…
with ballerinas
“Battered” Tackles
Domestic Abuse
Classic fairy tale
comes to Place des Arts
Yukonstyle focuses on
native people issues
Art Westmount 2016
celebrates local talent
Maritime Tale Comes
to Life in New Play
Constellations
at the Centaur
The Hammer Comes Down
on Prenuptial Housing
A Showcase of
Black Film Talent
Great Fun at
Next Wave and Ladyfest
Depflies X
ends with a surprise
Asher Lev at the Segal
A song of love and death
Words and images merge at Art Westmount
Late Summer Theatre Roundup
The “Blanche” Chalet
Kitchen Design Contest
Concert Series Presents The Celtic Four
An All Female Julius Caesar
17th International Garden Festival
International Design and Architecture Competition
Last Days at the Jazz Fest
The Producers is a “hatslokhe”
Fringe Theatre Festival 2016 Wraps Up
Significant restoration
in Port of Montreal
Archaeology of the Digital:
Complexity and Convention
Bloomsday Montréal: Two Highlights From 5-Day Fest
Raise Your Voice!
Deserves Many Plaudits
Cactus flower paintings
art exhibition
Pearl Is A Gem Of A Show
2016 Fringe Theatre
Festival Continues
2016 Fringe Off To
Fine Start
A monumental artwork
for Montreal
Byron’s Bloomsday Montréal Quickie List
Luzia enchants and amazes
Dirty Dancing
powerfully staged
Westmount theatre
plays Stoppard and Vidal
Me And You captures immigrant confusion
I Love You, You’re Perfect,
Now Change
Ol’ Man River
Sylvia and Ol’ Man River
Bad Jews at the Segal
Montreal theatres celebrate milestones
Montreal Chromatic Festival
The Blood Harmonic,
a revelation
Black Theatre Workshop’s
She Said/He Said
Last Night at the Gayety
Commemorating the Rising’s 100th anniversary
Alice brings wonder to nonsense and silliness
A Mime, Dance and Multimedia Feast
Spring photo gallery:
Joe Donohue
Lovecraft is a difficult guy to love
Boom is my kind of show
The day when
everyone is Irish
The best of Irish shorts
Greek drama lives!
Claire Desjardins
paints the town red
Another home invasion
A terrible beauty unearthed
Up a tree
Bus Stops arrives
at the Centaur
Music out of
the mouths of babes
Louis Riel:
A Comic Strip Play
The National Theatre School’s Hamlet
The Shortstanding Festival
Shanghai Ballet perpetrates Coppélia
Persephone Productions presents Moby Dick
On This Day
Hamburg, portrait of a colourful city
The Secret Annex
Our Country’s Good
is great
Cock examines sexual ambivalence
Revisiting Montreal’s Age of Opulence
Opéra de Montréal sets Verdi’s Otello on fire
Pig Girl roars defiance
Macbeth doth Trump
the Donald
Review: Noble
Review: Hairspray
the Musical
Mrs. Pirandello
and Mr. Marlowe
Review: Summersett and Depflies
Winter photo Gallery:
Joe Donohue
Review: Centaur’s Wildside Festival – Part 2
Review: Centaur’s Wildside Festival – Part 1
Ghosts of 2015 Plays Past
Review: Mauvais Gars
A fun evening with Montreal Irish writers
Gallery: Roy M. Gunnels
Muiz street in Cairo
Review: Pipeline
Review: Orlando
Review: Urban Tails
Photo Gallery:
Éric Villeneuve
Review: Tribes
Review: Montreal Lyric Singers
Review: Quick Exits
Autumn photo Gallery:
by Joe Donohue
Review: Picturesque
Mick Jagger, Pope Benedict and me
Review: Love, Child
Review: Wake Up,
Sleeping Beauty
Dramatis Personae’s Quick Exits
Review: Tommy
Elektra will take the top of your head off
There is but one Paris
Review: Cinemania
Review: An Iliad
Gallery: James Simon
Review: Butcher
Review: META awards
Review: Compleat female stage beauty
Review: Progress
Review: Funny Girl
Review: State of Denial
Review: Province
Review: The adventures of a black girl in search of God
When the stone talks
Review: Don’t blame it on the stork
Review: Aftermath
Review: Bingo Ladies
Review: The Dybbuk
Review: Cavalia Odysseo
Review: Twelfth Night
Review: Jennifer Hornyak
Review: Empire show
Art / Culture
Articles
The annual arts and culture festival offers activities for all ages. By Barbara Ford
The Lyric Theatre Singers’ latest show featured the music of the legendary Jule Styne. By Byron Toben
Six more St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival reviews… and regrets. By Byron Toben
Reviews of three Frankie Award nominated Fringe plays. By Julia Ainsworth
An exceptional exhibition at La Guilde inaugurates the 2017 Montreal First Peoples Festival. By Jean-François Brucel
The 5th Edition of the Mixed Arts Festival.
By Luc Archambault
This year’s crop is rich and varied. By Luc Archambault
Byron reports on some of his Fringe Festival theatre picks. By Byron Toben
Popular Broadway musical shoulda been in Yiddish from the start. By Byron Toben
Theatre, dance, performance art, the Fringe has it all. By Luc Archambault
Some promising Montreal Fringe Festival theatre shows. By Byron Toben
