Review: Honest and resolute, “Clean Slate” shines in English premiere
What does it take and feel like to start over? To be given new life, do you have to end the old one? Are you brave enough to die and to wipe the slate clean? […]
Reviews
Review: Snowglobe Theatre presents “Proof”, a dramatic crossroad of mental illness and genius
The demise of a mathematician brings three conflicting personalities onto the Mainline stage for a heavy conversation about mental illness. In David Auburn’s Proof, Catherine has spent five years caring for her brilliant yet unstable […]
Review: “How Black Mothers Say I Love You” sings hope to separation and sacrifice
“I love you” was all they ever wanted to hear. Simple… but, alas, not easy. Expressions of love and the vulnerable self are at the heart of Trey Anthony’s How Black Mothers Say I Love […]
Review: “Numbers Increase As We Count … ” honours unsung heroines of war
From the trailblazing Montreal-based theatre company that produced Fringe hit 4’33” in Baghdad and The Wah Wah Pedal comes a potent new political piece – one of “protest, not performance” – that leaves a lasting […]
Review: “BOOM X” transcends age and era in musical retrospective
“Amusicamagicamazing” is back. After a successful run of his solo show BOOM in 2016, the Dora and Gemini award-winning Rick Miller returns to home turf to present the Montreal premiere of his latest theatrical tour-de-force, a new […]
Review: Power, patriarchy, and private lives examined in “The Last Wife”
Six weddings. Two beheadings. Two divorces. One maternal death. And then, the one who survived it all. Catherine Parr is The Last Wife of King Henry VIII, whose compelling and convoluted relationship is the crux of playwright Kate […]
Review: Tableau D’Hôte Theatre shines light on systemic racism with “Blackout”
What is essential theatre if not original, urgent, daring, community-oriented, and deeply rooted in humanity? Meeting our cardinal criteria for the indispensable is the lineage of creations by the multi META-winning company Tableau D’Hôte Theatre […]
Review: “Children of God” a song of Indigenous redemption and resilience
One of the most vital and powerful new works in Canadian musical theatre has found fertile soil in Montreal this season. A buried narrative of our nation’s history is brought to effulgent light in Children of […]
Wildside Review: Scapegoat Carnivale’s “Sapientia” retells a classic through riveting object theatre creation
After having premiered and played to sold out audiences at the MainLine Theatre this past August, Scapegoat Carnivale brings back the shiny objects that amassed it lustrous, statuesque thingamajigs of its own (the company is […]
Review: Arresting storytelling in enigmatic documentary play “True Crime”
True Crime is the story of two artists. One of them is a con. The impostor, however, may not exactly be who you think it is. Our first suspect is Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, a German immigrant […]