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Wake-up Call at Centaur’s A Play For The Living In A Time Of Extinction

A Play For The Living In A Time Of Extinction is powerful, engaging, haunting, and ultimately, filled with gratitude for nature’s delicate power. It examines humanity’s connection and responsibility to the environment with humour, intelligence, and a passion that bares not only the soul of the protagonist, but also that of the audience. Naomi (Warona […]

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Centaur’s All I Want for Christmas Gives Plenty of Cheer

All I Want for Christmas is a delightful, at times ribald, comedy full of crazy chaos and a jolly serving of holiday joy. The setting is the North Pole in one of Santa’s many mailrooms. It’s December 23rd and all available elves are needed to meet that crucial deadline of Christmas Eve. Ginger (Amelia Sargisson) […]

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Every Brilliant Thing Lights Up The Segal Centre

Every Brilliant Thing is a collection of the bright points that reflect the small, the large, and the deeply meaningful experiences that brings wonder to life. It is humourous, at times sad, and very moving examination of how we never stop moving and learning. This is a one-man show with a Narrator (Daniel Brochu). He […]

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Carolyn Fe finds new home on Nickelodeon

Carolyn Fe is one of Montreal’s original Renaissance women. She began her career as a contemporary dancer before acting in a variety of theatrical productions, TV and movie spots. Then she found her true voice singing jazz and blues in nightclubs and at festivals across Canada. I like to say blues icon Big Mama Thornton passed the […]

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REVIEW: STAR WARS: The Rise of Skywalker

Warning: This review contains spoilers! My life changed forever that summer evening in 1977 when my parents took my brother and me to the Côte-des-Neiges cinema to see the original Star Wars before it was re-christened A New Hope. George Lucas’ cinematic classic became a childhood obsession that has lasted well into adulthood. The space […]

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REVIEW: Family comes first with Winter’s Daughter

Montreal’s Tableau d’Hote Theatre has been an integral part of the English theatre community, presenting Montreal premieres of newer works including “Blackout: The Concordia Computer Riots” and a bilingual version of “Encore” in 2019. The company wraps up the 2019 year with Jesse Stong’s Winter’s Daughter, a dramatic and dark play based on the secret […]

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The Pillowman is the Darkest Timeline

The modern Grimm-like fairy tale The Pillowman, written by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh, is currently playing with a take of its own at Mainline Theatre’s Minimain stage. The Snowglobe Theatre has mounted a production that adds a layer of visual complexity to this modern classic. Storyteller and newly arrested police-state comrade Katurian (Matias Rittatore) finds himself […]

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Montreal native Sarah Booth is the accidental lifeline in the tension-filled, split-screen, one-take Canadian film Last Call

Shot in two single, real-time takes in different parts of Windsor, Ontario, Last Call is a 76-minute spit-screen phone conversation between Scott (an alcoholic trying to reach the suicide hotline on the anniversary of his son’s death) and Beth (a graveyard shift janitor who picks up the wrong number). This isn’t a heavily edited movie […]

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Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (Dir.: Quentin Tarantino, Columbia Pictures. 161 mins.)

*WARNING: This Review contains SPOILERS!* Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, auteur Quentin Tarantino’s latest effort, represents a bit of a departure for the veteran filmmaker: It is his first for Sony Pictures Studio after severing his long ties to the Weinstein Company; it is his first not set in the old west (sort of), during […]

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Must-See Montreal Events in March 2019

Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for March 2019: MUSIC Many top touring acts headline various Montreal concert venues this month. Highlights include Mumford & Sons (March 4), American rapper Travis Scott: Astroworld (March 5),  Weezer & Pixies (March 13), KISS (March 19) and Muse (March 30), all at the Bell Centre. Over […]