MONTREAL THEATER REVIEWS

What's in a Name? at the Segal Centre of Performing Arts is a summer delight! Verbal sparring, hilarious banter and touching moments will have you captivated! You do not want to miss this highly entertaining play!...

The 27th edition of the St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival has come to a close. This year's festival featured a bevy of poignant, entertaining and raucous shows....

The Lycric Theatre Singers captivated audiences with their opening night, spring show Hello Broadway! at the D.B. Clarke Theatre in Montreal, QC...

The Segal Centre for Performing Arts, Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre presents It Shoulda Been You....

Million Dollar Quartet has audiences on their feet at the Segal Centre! Million Dollar Quartet, a musical depicting the historical, impromptu jam session of Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis opened to a delighted audience this week, prompting patrons to tap their toes,...

the BOOK OF MORMON, the smash hit, 2011 Tony Award winning musical by SOUTH PARK creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, along with EGOT/Composer Robert Lopez (AVENUE Q, FROZEN) says 'Hello' to Montreal in a short return engagement....

Noises Off is a show that has kept audiences rolling in the aisles for more than 30 years....

MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET, presented by Neptune Theatre, is a warm welcome into the holiday season. This adaption is like attending a family holiday tradition with an added touch for a new generation; dazzling touches from the bright, vintage set to Wade Lynch's jolly interpretation of Kris Kringle....

The Canadian premiere of Prom Queen: The Musical at Montreal's Segal Centre is the company's most ambitious production to date....

Every choice you make has the potential for a different, life-altering outcome....

On the 25th anniversary of the original, bilingual production of LES MISERABLES in Montreal, original cast members performed to benefit The Royal Theatre Thousand Islands, a non-profit, community theatre being built by one of their own....

On June 1st, I saw DIRTY DANCING LIVE at Place des Arts in Montreal, Quebec. From being a fan of the movie at fourteen, I was thrilled when I heard of the live stage show. After checking tour dates constantly for years, I finally discovered I would be in Montreal the same time as the show!...

SHE SAID / HE SAID is a new play by award-winning, Toronto-based playwright Anne-Marie Woods. The piece, which runs an hour-and-a-half without intermission, focuses on the romantic relationship between two people each equipped with their own emotional baggage....

Binti's Journey is an original play based off the novel The Heaven Shop by Deborah Ellis....

In Search of Mrs. Pirandello is a brilliant play by a young Montreal writer, Michaela Di Cesare. It first premiered at the 2015 Montreal Fringe Festival and has since become even more polished....

Captain Aurora: A Superhero Musical is a jaunty comedy that high-kicks and tap-dances its way through iconic comic book tropes and oft-recycled narrative arcs....

BWW Review: Tribes at the Segal Centre The Segal Centre's production of Tribes is an astonishing breath of fresh air. It's razor sharp, funny, edgy, foul-mouthed and hilarious. And it stars a deaf actor in the lead role of Billy....

The “Barbra Question” can often plague theatre companies when the idea of producing a Funny Girl musical is brought up. How can one produce the show in a way that even comes close to the iconic version that Streisand led in her breakout role? They face the additional obstacle of satisfying audie...

The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God is the most recent oeuvre from Canadian playwright Djanet Sears. Put on in collaboration with the Black Theatre Workshop and the Centaur Theatre, the production was directed by Sears herself....

Closing off the Segal Centre's 2014-2015 season, this classic story follows young Duddy Kravitz (Ken James Stewart), a kid who's grown up in the ethnic ghetto of the post-war St. Urbain Street in Montreal. Duddy is eager to escape his dead-end neighborhood and be somebody. After being told by his el...

Sex T-Rex's Swordplay: A Play of Swords has all the fixings for a simply hilarious, one-hour show that will leave audiences giggling long after it's over....

Tom Stoppard is the kind of playwright who is so clever that it almost feels like he's showing off. Travesties is one such example of Stoppard's brilliance, as he seamlessly combines past and present, reality and fiction in an inventive and Wildean play that, believe it or not, was inspired by real ...

A woman sits on a lone wooden chair center stage, lit by a single spotlight. She is mother, father, daughter and son. This is debbie tucker green's random, a one-woman show that is both captivating and immersive....

Though the story may not have entirely appealed to me, the cast was stellar. All four actresses have incredible singing voices with seamingly endless range....

Chicago is a prohibition-era, vaudevillian musical centering on the merry murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart as they lie and dance their way to an innocent trial verdict. The show recounts the events of early 1920s Chicago when the press became obsessed with homicidal females who were launched t...