“AFTERMATH” IS INTENSE AND COMPELLING
The Waterworks company, created by 1994 Concordia grads Rob Langford and Tracey Houston, is committed to staging contemporary playwrighting...
Byron Toben
ODYSSEO IS A SPECTACULAR SHOW
ODYSSEO is the second offering by the CAVALIA people who specialize in multi media spectacles enhancing live horses and...
TWELFTH NIGHT HAS GREAT QUOTES AND AUDIENCE APPEAL
Repercussion’s Shakespeare- in- the- park production of Twelfth Night is pleasing audiences on many fronts. This echoes its subtitle, What...
WILL “DANNY BOY” FILL AN IRISH MUSICAL THEATRE NICHE?
Frank McCourt`s charming show“The Irish and How They Got That Way” leads off with the statement that the Irish are a Musical race. And so they...
FOUR ENSEMBLE SHOWS FROM MONTREAL FRINGE 2015
IN SEARCH OF MRS. PIRANDELLO Author/Actor MICHAELA DI CESARE has done a PH.D worthy job of discovering fragments of paper in dusty Italian...
THREE ONE PERSON SHOWS FROM MONTREAL FRINGE 2015
LUST AND MARRIAGE ELEANOR OBRIEN has a lot of <em>chutzpah </em>to challenge Frank Sinatras paean to Love And Marriage which “go together...
Byron’s Annual Montreal Fringe Picks…Sight Unseen
Here, dear readers, is my annual pre-opening 2015 Montreal Fringe picks–sight unseen–for its 25th anniversary. As usual, this list is based...
“MANVASION” ONE OF MONTREAL SKETCHFEST’S TOP EVENINGS
By Byron Toben The 10th anniversary Montreal Sketch fest ended with 60 troupes in 20 time slots over 10...
WOMEN IN COMEDY AT MONTREAL SKETCHFEST
The 10th annual Montreal Sketch Festival drew 61 entrants…29 from Montreal (4 in French), 23 from Toronto, 9 from...
33 VARIATIONS TIES BEETHOVEN TO PRESENT
By Byron Toben “Without music, Life would be a mistake”…Frederich Nietszche The TONY award winning show, “33 VARIATIONS” illustrates...