If I’ve made one thing clear to the recent readers of this blog, I hope it’s this: I am spending all my grocery money on theatre tickets. Somebody stop me. No, really. This afternoon, I saw another Canstage production, The Elephant Man, starring Brent Carver and a whole bunch of…
Does that title make sense in the context of what I’m about to type? Probably not. But, rest assured, it will contain the word “storytelling”. This is largely due to the fact that I can’t really imagine discussing Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman without it. The Pillowman is one of those…
Seriously. The Seeker – wtf? Why would you go to the trouble of getting the rights to a series of books when all you really want to do is use the characters’ names and make up your own story? For those of you who haven’t read Susan Cooper’s The Dark…
It makes me smile when I am sad. No, really, I went to see A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum last weekend, and it was terrific. Part of my opinion, of course, stems from the fact that I love Stephen Sondheim musicals. I had a song…