Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
What is the price of happiness and freedom? Can one truly walk away from a lesser life? Can the past stay in the past? A Doll’s House, Part 2 is a thought-provoking, explosive, at times humourous, exploration of women’s rights and marriage. It is energetic and infuriating. While the story’s period is the late 19th […]
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for the second half of November 2018: MUSIC Many top touring acts are headlining various Montreal concert venues this month. Highlights include Brian Wilson at Théâtre St-Denis on Nov. 22, the Stone Temple Pilots and Seether double bill at Place Bell on Nov. 15, Milk & Bone […]
Does the previous generation have a duty to fix the mistakes of their past? How can they prepare the world for their children? How far are they willing to go? The Children is a gathering of powerhouse performances. This tightly contained story is intense, darkly funny, with a smart use of science-fiction. It has a […]
American opera singer Soloman Howard is making a difference both on and off the stage. The Anti-Defamation League presented him with their “Making a Difference Award” in 2016 for raising awareness of voting rights and for bringing opera into the larger community, and Howard has also been blazing a trail on stages around the world […]
What makes a leader? Is it someone who is brash and belligerent? Or someone with a vision of greater purpose in all actions? Someone who takes responsibility for themselves and for others? Choir Boy is a beautiful coming of age story on friendship and the courage to be true to one’s self. It uses music […]
“So much has been written about Monty Python. There have been memoirs, diaries, books about the Pythons, books by the Pythons about other Pythons, articles about the books about the Pythons, countless interviews, autobiographies, documentaries…so many documentaries. I honestly think there are more hours of documentary about Python then there are hours of Python.” -Eric […]
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for October 2018: MUSIC Many top touring acts are headlining various Montreal concert venues this month. Highlights include pop icon Elton John (Oct. 4), Montreal favourite Phil Collins (Oct. 16) and classical-crossover legend Andrea Bocelli (Oct. 21), all at the Bell Centre. Other legends in town this […]
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for September 2018: MUSIC Many top touring acts are headlining various Montreal concert venues this month. Highlights include hip hop superstar Drake (Sept. 4 and 5), Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Chicago (Sept. 13) and pop icon Paul McCartney (Sept. 20) – who launches his 22-date […]
“I hope this book feels like a Simpsons episode: fast-paced, full of quick scenes, and stuffed with hundreds of jokes, some of them funny. I’ve even structured it like a Simpsons script, which has four acts: setup, complication, resolution and coda.” -Mike Reiss (from Springfield Confidential, page 7) In the mid-2000’s I was employed as […]
ZZ Top lead guitarist / vocalist Billy Gibbons pretty much summed up the concert review himself by saying “We’ve been coming to Montreal for five decades with the same three members playing the same three chords.” Apparently that’s all they need. The three Texans let the music do all the talking for their 90 minute […]