Marilla Steuter-Martin

The Montreal Fringe Festival marks a vibrant start to the city's summer season. Artists come together from all over to flood the venues on and around St. Laurent Blvd. with light, music, movement and laughter.

Going on a blind date is a risky thing. If you don't know the first thing about the person in the chair across from you, it can be nerve-wracking and lead to embarrassment, awkward silences and end in disaster. Or, it can be warm, sweet and uproariously funny.

I made the mistake of seeing this play on Valentine's Day (it just worked out that way) and perhaps that influenced my expectations away from the actual promise of what this production was going to deliver.

How do you transform decades of trauma and silence into a moving piece of musical storytelling? Ask Corey Payette.

There's a tremendous amount of talent on the Segal Centre stage right now.

If Henrick Ibsen's renowned realist drama A Doll's House had a love child with the 2002 romantic comedy Sweet Home Alabama, you might end up with something a little like A Doll's House Part 2.

The Tashme Project: The Living Archives is a remarkable piece of verbatim theatre that is based on more than 60 interviews with Japanese Canadians who lived through internment in British Columbia after the bombing of Pearl Harbour.

This year's Shakespeare-in-the-Park puts a modern twist on one the most well-known love stories of all time.

The 2018 Montreal Fringe Festival is almost over, but there's still time to take in a few shows this weekend.

It's that time of year again, and the Montreal Fringe Festival is in full swing. There's a huge variety of shows in both French and English on display, offering comedy, drama and everything in between.

The viewing experience is akin to sitting at an uncomfortable dinner party where the hosts make racist, ableist comments and fight bitterly with one another as you sit for 90 minutes, unable to say anything or leave.

The Centaur Theatre's production of The 39 Steps makes for not only a great night of theatre, but a nostalgic reunion for fans of SideMart Theatrical Grocery - a terrific anglophone theatre company that operated in Montreal from 2006 to 2013.

The Segal Centre's brand new Quebec-centric musical, The Hockey Sweater, is by far the company's most electric, exuberant production of the last five seasons.

Much like the famous NHLer he plays onstage, you can tell actor Shaun Smyth is working hard from the moment he steps onto the ice.

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.

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

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.

The Montreal English theatre season is picking up again with the Segal Centre's My Name Is Asher Lev which opened over the weekend. The adaptation of Chaim Potok's 1972 novel follows the story of a young Jewish man whose artistic talent separates him from his traditional family and threatens his relationship with community and faith. My Name is Asher Lev runs from Sept. 11 to Oct. 2 with tickets starting at $45.

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.