Review: ‘Alice and the World We Live In’: Our Surreal Reality
How is it possible to move forward when all that we love is in the past? Written by Alexandria Haber and directed by Eda Holmes, Alice and the World We Live In is a play […]
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Review: Vibrant Storytelling in ‘HONOUR: Confessions of a Mumbai Courtesan’
Teesri Duniya Theatre presents the Quebec premiere of the award-winning, internationally touring production HONOUR: Confessions of a Mumbai Courtesan. This colourful, musical experience of Mumbai’s red light district will reel you in with mystic sensuality, raw […]
Review: ‘Anima/Darkroom’: the Krump we all need and deserve
Théâtre LaChapelle’s black box is nearly stripped bare for “Anima/Darkroom”, where Krump and theatre intersect in the most beautiful ways. Krump is a highly energetic kind of street dance born in Los Angeles in the […]
Review: ‘Spun’ shines spotlight on British Pakistani identity in Canadian Premiere
Two young women emerge from the audience, with an unspoken tension hanging in the air. Aisha (Sundance Nagrial) and Safa (Amena Ahmad) are best friends living in East London with their working-class Pakistani families; they […]
Review: ‘imaginationreality’: An Exercise In Collective Imagination
In her new piece imaginationreality, Montreal choreographer Katie Ward explores stream of consciousness as an interactive tool for creation and perception. The improvisational performance is structured to exercise the collective imagination of the audience and performers […]
Review: Timely as ever, Vittorio Rossi’s “The Chain” makes a triumphant return to the stage
From MagJusJen Entertainment comes the first of three plays written by award winning playwright Vittorio Rossi to be put on at the Moyse Hall Theatre this season: The Chain. A quintessential Montreal story that broke […]
Review: Captivating ‘Eugene Onegin’ for OdM Season Opening
There is always excitement in the air for an opening night, but doubly so for the first performance of a season. Opéra de Montréal’s 2019-20 opened with a captivating and beautifully sung production of Tchaikovsky’s […]
Review: Meta musical “Title of Show” a virtuous debut for Home Theatre Productions
The Broadway musical is most oft deemed to be synonymous with “surface spectacle”, and to defy such a commercial standard would presumptively lead to one’s shunning from the ferociously competitive marketplace, but it appears the […]
Review: Contact Theatre’s “Bonnie & Clyde” returns with a bang
2019 has been the year of an unprecedented upsurge of new independent musical theatre companies in Montreal, and one of its most successful breakaways is back to ascertain its prime positioning. Contact Theatre left an […]
Review: Morals are questioned, “Measure for Measure”, in Repercussion Theatre’s timely, annual Shakespeare-in-the-Park
In 2019, one can’t mount a production of any single of Shakespeare’s plays without the obligatory questions of contemporary relevance. Perhaps more than ever, the way Shakespeare’s prose wades into the murky waters of love, […]