A new production of Broadway’s number two grossing musical of all time. By Byron Toben
Kim’s Convenience
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
Rings: one movie too much?
“Shiksa” Kicks Off
High Lights Festival
A Cure for Wellness:
a good story wasted
Pollock is centrepiece of play
A tribute to Anna Politkovskaya
Julie Boulianne, la voix d’un ange
Fifty Shades Darker,
All Hype, No Pleasure
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…
Split, the particularity of differences
A look at Wildside 2017
Rogue One: big, splashy sidekick
Kinky Boots,
extravagant choreography
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
Discovering the
salon du livre de Montréal
The Watershed, a World
First Among All Plays
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
Maritime Tale Comes
to Life in New Play
Constellations
at the Centaur
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
Late Summer Theatre Roundup
Concert Series Presents The Celtic Four
An All Female Julius Caesar
Last Days at the Jazz Fest
The Producers is a “hatslokhe”
Fringe Theatre Festival 2016 Wraps Up
Bloomsday Montréal: Two Highlights From 5-Day Fest
Raise Your Voice!
Deserves Many Plaudits
Pearl Is A Gem Of A Show
2016 Fringe Theatre
Festival Continues
2016 Fringe Off To
Fine Start
Byron’s Bloomsday Montréal Quickie List
Byron’s Fringe Picks
Sight Unseen 2016
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
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
Lovecraft is a difficult guy to love
Boom is my kind of show
The best of Irish shorts
Greek drama lives!
Another home invasion
A terrible beauty unearthed
Up a tree
Bus Stops arrives
at the Centaur
Music out of
the mouths of babes
The National Theatre School’s Hamlet
The Shortstanding Festival
Shanghai Ballet perpetrates Coppélia
Persephone Productions presents Moby Dick
On This Day
The Secret Annex
Our Country’s Good
is great
Cock examines sexual ambivalence
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
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
Review: Pipeline
Review: Orlando
Review: Urban Tails
Review: Tribes
Review: Montreal Lyric Singers
Review: Quick Exits
Review: Picturesque
Review: Love, Child
Review: Tommy
Elektra will take the top of your head off
Review: An Iliad
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
Review
Articles
The Theo Fleury Story at the Centaur is an astounding show. By Byron Toben
A “sixties delight” returns to the Mainline Theatre. By Byron Toben
Two-part play explores the female condition in both impressionistic and expressionistic styles.
By Byron Toben
The MWFF goes on thanks to a last minute rescue.
By Byron Toben
Comic book as stage play succeeds in 2D.
By Byron Toben
The Hudson Village Theatre presents a peppy version of the Jules Verne classic. By Byron Toben
A movie midway between a blockbuster and a biblical epic. By Luc Archambault
Festival’s Comedy Pro events celebrate industry professionals and their achievements. By Byron Toben
… according to the international hit comedy now at the Segal. By Byron Toben
The Concordia professor delivers a fascinating lecture on the seminal James Joyce novel. By Byron Toben
The Lyric Theatre Singers’ latest show featured the music of the legendary Jule Styne. By Byron Toben
