This week: Into the Woods we go—trailing caveats
The best show up right now is Fighting Chance Productions mounting of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's musical, Into the Woods, which is playing at the Jericho Arts Centre until May 16. Stephen Sondheim's songs are crazily difficult to realize musically and, under...
Hold that thought
Stay tuned for this week's theatre pick; I'll be posting tomorrow.
Foreign Radical and my Portland three-way
When I attended Theatre Conspiracy's Foreign Radical, my fellow audience members voted—virtually unanimously—to select me as the most suspicious person there. Maybe that was because I'm big and 30 years older than the rest of them, so I stood out, or maybe it was...
Want me to edit your book, story, or screenplay?
When I'm not working as a theatre critic, I'm a substantive editor, which means "story editor". I help writers with narrative structure, so I deal a lot with plot, but also elements such as the development of characters and themes. Normally, I'm booked three or four...
Hiro Kanagawa’s Indian Arm is worth the effort
In the land of theatre, the pick is easy this week. And, as a bonus, I've got a couple of movies for you. Hiro Kanagawa's Indian Arm just runs for two more nights (until April 18) at Studio 16. Get in if you can. Kanagawa's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Little Eyolf is...
The Book of Mormon is the best new show in town—but you have to win the lottery to get in
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, which is fun, is still on at the Stanley—and it just might be the best thing you can get tickets to. A slick touring production of The Book of Mormon is at the QE. That's fun, too, but the only way you're going to get tickets is by...
Two
I'm going to keep it short and sweet this week, folks: I've got two shows to recommend. At the Cultch, you have two more nights to catch Tawiah M'carthy's Obaaberima, which is about a queer Ghanian-Canadian guy embracing the supposedly unacceptable aspects of himself....
It’s spring and the fresh talent is blooming
I've got three shows to recommend this week and they all feature strong performances from young artists. In Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Christopher Durang's crazy Chekhovian mashup, which runs at the Arts Club's Stanley Theatre until April 19, Katey Hoffman...
Do You Think This Is Strange?
I am so proud to be associated with this novel that I cried when the hard copy arrived in the mail this morning. Do You Think This Is Strange? is narrated in the voice of a 17-year-old autistic boy. It's funny, it's heart-wrenching, and it's beautifully structured....
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