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“I have wanted to do this for the last 20 years”, says Eleanor Crowder Director of the upcoming Bear & Company production The Taming of the Shrew. Deep in rehearsal, Crowder apologizes for saxophone and guitar in the background.

Born in the (late) 80s, the famous power ballades of the era were songs my dad would occasionally play in the car during long drives. And to be honest, it mostly led to me putting in my ipod to listen my Britney. It wasn’t till GLEE re-did the songs that my curiosity was officially peaked, [...]

Walking into the theatre you can feel the humidity from the pools of water that cover the stage. A rain-drop waterfall comes down from the rafters onto the first pool that is framed like a eight-foot tall mural above a shallow wadding pool below. Actors relax on the spa like stage, some diving into the [...]

Billy Elliot opened to two standing ovations at the National Arts Centre (NAC) Tuesday night. Jeremy Dias reviews the choreographed musical known for its embracing of queer themes and ravishing transcendence of mere entertainment. Til Jan 6 @ the NAC and Jan 8-13 at Montréal’s Place des Arts.

Hofesh Shechter has been described a revolutionary choreographer who escaped Israel to find peace, but there is no peaceful theme to be found in his first full-length work for two nights at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Nov 9 + 10.

After living mostly under the radar for anglophones as the Festival Voix d’Amériques, the spoken word and live arts festival will be reborn this month as Phenomena, a “poetic and playful” festival. To mark the occasion of this major shift (in time and branding), artistic director D. Kimm is bringing in a big name in the bizarro art-world: none other than British dadaist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. The always queer-friendly programme includes a free live set by synth-popster Jef Barbara, and a night dedicated to homosexualist eccentrics 2boys.tv.

Brave New Productions co-founder Donald Rees-Poitras directs his dream-team in The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later October 12-14. With a mounting worldwide struggle against homophobic violence, such as the Acts of Homophobia Registry in Montréal, his company Brave New Productions has chosen an all too relevant time to return to Laramie…

Kids on TV frontman, DJ, and Canadian queer icon John Caffery unpacks his Working Conditions at LPM for Ottawa’s Nuit Blanche and comes to Pop Montréal the night after. We talked to him about sex work, sexy work, and going ’til dawn.

“It’s a strip-tease burlesque puppetry lip-synch sing-along,” artist Vincent Chevalier says of the performance he has planned for Faggity Ass Fridays, exceptionally at the Royal Phoenix this Saturday (Sept 1). Working in performance, photo, video, and the media collage of Tumblr, this seemingly self-obsessed queer artist will spill part of himself onto the stage one last time before he vacates Montréal next week. (Banner photo by David J. Romero).

It’s not every day you get to see a real live New York Broadway star test out new material in a church basement in Montréal. If you missed Liza Minnelli at the Jazz Fest, you can see her now: in the form of out gay comedian Mario Cantone.