That is the title of the Paul Zim cassette tape my family plays every Chanukah. If you are not Jewish (or if you are Jewish but aren’t a dork), you are probably wondering who the heck Paul Zim is. That is what Google is for. The thing about Chanukah is…
Forget the movie. Go see the North American touring production of Sweeney Todd. It’s on at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto for eight more days – until December 9th. As Mrs. Lovett’s unsuspecting customers would say, “God, that’s good!”
So some news first. My short story “A Dybbuk Story” is being published in the Winter 2007 issue of The First Line, and it has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Writing it out like that makes me seem so matter-of-a-fact about it, but, truth is, I’m still slightly in…
Because I just can’t let it die. (Yes, it’s Harry Potter again. Shut up.) But first – apparently I have a separated-at-birth Internet twin from Urbana, IL. Dude! Okay, so Slytherin.
Let it be known that I am a sucker for films that both children and adults can watch and have entirely different – but enjoyable – experiences. So, clearly, the only thing to do was write a top ten list of my favourite such movies. (Thanks for the info, IMDB.)…
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…