Tag Archive for the term: jonathan

I have a reputation for hyperbole when it comes to bands that I like but forget I told you that because I am now telling you that Toronto’s Saffron Sect is the best band in Canada…
or at least the most relevant…
or at the very least the most important.
When I saw them on Saturday night at […]

I attended the Best of Montreal Night for the third annual Sketch Comedy Festival at Theatre Ste. Catherine. To sum up the whole night I can say I was pleasantly and vaguely entertained the whole evening. Nothing was fall down funny….or laugh out loud funny but I had a nice warm feeling of amusement for […]

Somewhere in this clusterfuck a good play is buried. Somewhere mired in the septic swamp of Haunted Hillbilly: the Hiram Woodside Atrocity is a powerful night of theatre. Oh right you probably weren’t there and don’t know what I’m talking about so it is an original musical by Montreal’s Sidemart based on Toronto writer Derek […]

I wish this play had been terrible; this review would be so much easier to write because I could fill the page up with bile. Instead local Pumpkin Theatre’s Short Story Long is so powerfully mediocre in every imaginable respect it leaves me at a loss.
Ok so like the plot and stuff; famous Montreal writer […]

So I was sitting behind some middleagedlady who was reviewing the show at Mainline for one of the local newspapers and during intermission the middleagedwomen she brought with her said “I’m missing American Idol for this!?” and then the theatre student next to me asked the reviewer what she thought of the show and she […]

Brent Randall and His Pinecones and Their Majesties: Two slices of pure sweet halifax pop pie. Wednesday, March 14 at Green Room. Both bands are passing through on their way back from T.Dot - Brent was there recording a cbc radio session and Their Majesties had a week long residency playing a hotel. Instead of […]

Vampire Lesbians of Sodom and Sleeping Beauty or Coma
by Charles Busch
Mainline Theatre, closes tommorrow February 17
A night of two short farces; fun, informal, and high energy-just the thing to shake the February blues. The first piece is Sleeping Beauty or Coma, the story of a fresh faced fashion agency temp who through a whole […]