MONTREAL THEATER REVIEWS

BOOK OF MORMON, the smash hit, 2011 Tony Award winning musical by SOUTH PARK creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, along with Robert Lopez (AVENUE Q, FROZEN) says 'Hello' to Montreal in a short 8 performance run....

When a 23-year-old first-time playwright named Michel Tremblay wrote Les Belles-soeurs in 1965, no one could have predicted how it would turn into an international sensation over the next four decades and go on to be produced in over 30 languages....

As part of Centaur's Theatres Brave New Looks series, Persephone Productions certainly does take a hard look at adolescent turmoil in their remount of Spring Awakening. They unmistakably prove that repression of youth is a timeless and borderless reality that is often exasperated by adults' indiffer...

Unlike your high school sex-ed classes, Chlamydia dell'Arte is a sex-ed class you can actually laugh through. This adorable two-person comedy, written and performed by Meghann Williams and Gigi Naglak is creating quite the buzz for itself at Montreal's Fringe Festival....

In their debut show, Chocolate Moose Theatre Company brings to life a piece that is deeply relatable to the human experience. At Home at the Zoo is a combination of Edward Albee's Homelife and Zoo Story, the first of which was written 49 years after the latter in an attempt to portray the relationsh...

For the first time in 20 years, Ain't Misbehavin': The Fats Waller Musical Show has swung into Montreal, and it does not fail to impress. This sassy and seductive jazz-age production opens the Segal Centre's 2013-2014 season with a bang, featuring a dynamic five-person cast that will get your toes t...

Crossdressers and Criminals: 3 Ways to Lose Yourself, presented by Uncanny Theatre Company is currently running at the Fringe Festival. It is a melange of three separate pieces that complement and bring a deeper understanding to each other....

Carole Frechette's THINKING OF YU tells the story of Maggie (Danielle Desormeaux), a woman who becomes fixated on a small newspaper article about Yu Dongyue, a Chinese journalist just released from prison after serving 17 years for throwing paint on a portrait of Chairman Mao during the 1989 student...

A CHORUS OF DISAPPROVAL opens with the finale: an amateur opera company taking their bows after an apparently successful performance of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera. Following the applause, the lead actor is left alone onstage, shunned by the rest of the company. What happened?...

The Hudson Players Club production of ALICE IN WONDERLAND will play it's final performance on Saturday, April 20, 2013 at the Hudson Village Theatre. Directed by Philippe Gobeille, you would be Off Your Head to miss this production!...

GOLD MOUNTAIN is an intimate portrait of a son's attempt to connect with his father and an exploration of cultural, racial, and generational divides. Written by David Yip and Kevin Wong, the story follows the father's journey from a small town in China just starting to be touched by Communism to Liv...

If Jacques Brel were alive and well and living in Montreal today, he would enjoy watching In Your Face entertainment's production of Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, which runs at the Mainline Theatre through March 24....

Created and written by the 5-person cast, crew, and director, Based on a True Story is exactly what it sounds like. Presented by McGill's Tuesday Night Cafe Theatre, the show critically examines the lives and choices of the people the rest of world forgot to care about....

The rise of celebrated singer and civil rights activist Mahalia Jackson is told in the world premiere of Roger Peace's THE MAHALIA JACKSON MUSICAL, now playing at The Segal Centre....

It is hard to identify with a man as deluded as Shakespeare's famous character Macbeth is. Yet through his display of weakness the question that comes to mind can only be: what is our inner nature truly capable of? When you find your values already lost in the moral cesspool, how far will one go to ...

Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal amazed and impressed Houston audiences with their fourth engagement in our city. Enthusiastic cheers, thunderous applause, and lengthy standing ovations greeted the company after each act in the Cullen Theatre at the Wortham Center last Friday night. In an ef...

When West Side Story opened in 1957 it was nothing the world had ever seen before. This was partly because of the heavy themes it deals with, namely racial prejudice and gang violence, but mainly because it gracefully blends dance into the telling of the story....

The Exonerated tells the true stories of six innocent men and women who were sentenced to death. As the separate testimonies unfold a picture is painted of the American criminal justice system and all that is wrong with it....

GOOD PEOPLE has been described as a love letter written by the playwright to his hometown of South Boston or 'Southie', and a love letter it most certainly is. The production plays Montreal's Centaur Theatre November 6 thru December 9, 2012....

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Such a beautifully written Musical in such a terrible time-period, "Cabaret" takes place in the 1920's, in Berlin right in the middle of the 1st and 2nd World Wars. If you haven't seen this Musical, run to see it since you have until July 7th to do so at a reasonable price....

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