All of my officially published pieces of journalism
Staging a coloured riot Autumn brings a new breath of theatre to Ottawa The summer declines, ladies and gentlemen. But fall in the city can be a coloured riot of beauty and, in that spirit, I’m going to pack in as much as I can of what’s happening in local theatre this fall into the…
A modern monument to “Extraordinary Canadians” Penguin Canada launches a landmark undertaking to describe the Canadian soul Books: my fun, my schooling, my first, truest and only love. I write often about theatre in this paper, but, in confession, I write theatre from the vantage point of literature. Nothing in life exists until it is…
Something wicked this way comes Big-time Broadway production Wicked comes to the NAC The spiky Doctor Dillamond Musicals are stupid. And I mean that in a glorious, beautiful, massive, transcendent way. They are coarse, unrefined torrents of emotion that clutch at you with powerful moments of inspiration. Sometimes they overreach and become ridiculous with the…
Ottawa Fringe Festival 2008 Die Roten Punkte – Super Musikant (Super Musician) Written and performed by “Otto and Astrid Rot” “Otto Rot” and “Astrid Rot” (fictional names) An absolutely hilarious, achingly funny production; this one was definitely my pick as most entertaining show of the entire festival. Die Roten Punkte is a layered confection of…
Capital summer stagings Ottawa’s theatre scene gets primed Summer brings a rest season to the mainstay theatre here in Ottawa, a post-bloom repose where energies can be gathered for the upcoming work beginning in the fall. But there are some options for seeing theatre in these, the most habitable of months, if you’re determined to…
“I admire a director with a strong aesthetic and conceptual sense of a piece. One who isn’t afraid to really put his fingerprints all over a production. Strong artists are always needed,” Caroline Cave’s voice pushes through my crackly mobile phone connection as strong and dry as sunlight, “and this is a really strong artistic team.”