If you go to the theatre or catch an occasional Shakespeare-in-the-park, you have probably seen A Midsummer Night’s Dream. If you are a performer, you’ve almost certainly been in at least one production of the play. A Midsummer Night’s Dream has everything contemporary theatre companies can hope for: name recognition, fun parts…
Hey, everyone! I’ve been off in Las Vegas and Phoenix, AZ watching the world premiere of my play Bitch of the Baskervilles, starring Socratic Theatre Collective’s talented Liz Bragg as Watson and Amanda O’Halloran as Holmes, and directed by Current Theatrics’ Ruth Pe Palileo. Brilliant show, brilliant cast, and brilliant…
(early post — chag sameach, happy Passover!) Literary theorist and critic Roland Barthes once wrote that the author is dead.
(Happy birthday to a friend who probably doesn’t want his name on the Internets, and welcome back to my random blog! I suppose this topic is timely on Labour Day. Guess you’ll have to read and see.) When I was in high school, my classmates and I were aware of…
… onstage at Soulpepper? Tom Stoppard’s plays are something of a paradox for me. I enjoy reading them; on that basis, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is one of my favourite plays. It’s also really fun to perform: my friends Dave and Diana and I included a scene from it in…
… although, for some of them, “sing” might be optimistic. However, most of the cast of Tom Hooper’s cinematic adaptation of Claude-Michel Schönberg and Michel Boublil’s successful musical, Les Misérables, are quite pleasant to hear.
When I was in eleventh grade, my Writer’s Craft teacher referred to Cats as a “McMusical.” By this, she meant that it relied for its entire appeal on the work done by someone else — T. S. Eliot and his Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.
I’ve been having a blast working with Socratic Theatre Collective on my play The Dark Room, which opens this Thursday in Toronto at Unit 102 (COME SEE IT! More information here). It’s been amazing working with friends old and new to develop the script, helping with some backstage aspects of…
So… I still haven’t gone back to watching House, and after hearing about the season finale, all I can say is, whew, glad I got out when I did. Here is what I’ve been reading and watching instead.
Yes, more micro reviews. Originally, I meant to have an election-related blog for this weekend, but I didn’t finish it in time. Whatever, you wouldn’t want me to attempt think-y blog entries if I didn’t feed my brain with all this stuff.