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Naughty Bits and Pieces

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REVIEW: Despite shortcomings, Tim Rice's Toronto-based Chess: The Musical still thrills in places

by James Gartler
05.10.2011

Montreal may be a city overflowing with options when it comes to art and entertainment, but sometimes you just have to see what else is out there. To that end, this intrepid Rover reporter traveled to neighbouring Toronto to take in the sights, beginning with Chess: The Musical, fresh from a ten-month run in the [...]

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FESTIVAL CITY

From Fiddlers on the Roof to Puppeteers in the Basement

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The Season: A Socalled Musical finds multi-talented Mile End madman Josh Dolgin charging into uncharted creative territory at Pop Montreal

by Megan Stewart
25.09.2011

In my Mile End apartment building, which is sinking into the ground and falling apart at the seams, I often hear strange and wonderful sounds coming from the basement. Sometimes it’s klezmer music being played on a melodica, sometimes there’s a string quartet. A few months ago, there was a barrage of puppets knocking down [...]

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FESTIVAL CITY

Get Your Fringe On

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A select preview of the 2011 St-Ambroise Fringe Festival

by James Gartler
01.06.2011

It’s that time of year again.  A time when strip spelling bees, drag races, improv comedy and 11-second dance parties become daily occurrences in the Plateau-Mile End.  It’s Fringe season, and if you don’t know what that means, relax: Rover’s here to tell you.

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THEATRE

The Devil Does Country

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Haunted Hillbilly, Segal Centre

by Anna Fuerstenberg
11.12.2009

Haunted Hillbilly is hilarious and delightful, a romp on the dark side of honky-tonks and revival tent culture with a finger-snapping, toe-tapping integrity that is eerily contagious. When Hyram Woodside, played with great gusto and subtlety by Patrick Costello, sets out to become the brightest star in Country music, he trades in the humble cowboy [...]

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THEATRE

A Nostalgic Singalong

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Till We Meet Again, Oscar Peterson Concert Hall

by Anna Fuerstenberg
19.10.2009

There was a little irony in the crisp fall air as I followed the cane and walker crowd into the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall: someone was playing Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean on a ghetto blaster that rang out over the Loyola campus. Till We Meet Again is a reproduction of CBC radio broadcasts during World [...]

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