Tara McGowan-Ross

A near-death experience very nearly stops this reviewer from writing a rave.

This artful delve into the alienation of modern dating is wise beyond its runtime.

I like musicals, in theory. I genuinely don’t like very many of them in practice. I know that the true and beautiful melding of rock and musical theatre is possible, because I have seen it. When I’m hard on musicals, I am not angry. I am disappointed. I know that musicals can be good.

The Nils Svensson Carell-penned breakup drama is well-acted, funny, and very deep for its short length.

Ilana Schecter's punk rock sensibilities and unrepentant queer joy rescue a hard-to-follow narrative in this experimental clown piece about learning to enjoy yourself.

Celebrated Montreal choreographer Helen Simard looks for the internal logic of chaos in a show that mixes contemporary and urban dance. Exploring themes of ingenuity, resistance, adaptation and resilience, it opened to an empty theatre.

Ladies and gentlemen, whether you like it or not: Hedwig is here to set the record straight on the whole Tommy Gnosis thing. Did you know she wrote all his songs?

REQUIEM POP's deconstruction of many things-Iggy's music, the conventions of dance and storytelling, the boundaries between performer and audience, the use of the space -are the right kinds of envelope-pushing to tick off all the highbrow boxes, while managing the nearly impossible task of not also being boring.

Since the beginning of the American occupation of Iraq, thousands of women and girls have been lost to human trafficking, abuse, violence, and murder. Ülfet Sevdi brings these forgotten women into visceral awareness.

Almost, Maine gives us so many different versions of love and intimacy-but which ones melt through this reviewer's cold, dead, winter heart?

In February of 1969, computer data papers fell like snow on the streets around the Hall Building. 50 years later, some of Montreal's most celebrated theatre artists shed new light on this part of our history.

Odd Stumble and Imago collaborate on a work of protest theatre that offers different perspectives against Nicolas Maduro's regime in Venezuela, mounted the day after the country's presidency became heatedly contested.

In The Wings Productions brings seminal text of LGBTQ+ culture to Montreal's premier drag venue.

At once an intimate story of loss and a dark comedy, Birthmark attempts to highlight a pathway to building a productive and healing relationship between the Palestinian and Jewish communities of Canada.

Ilana and Ben aren't adjusting to parenthood the way they hoped they would.