All of my officially published pieces of journalism
Vision Theatre begins its new season with the unofficial Canadian premiere of Christopher Durang’s Miss Witherspoon. It is an ambitious and tricky play because it has little action, with a sparsely elegant set and simple lighting, and focuses primarily on dialogue and comic delivery, relying entirely on the strength of the cast and the eponymous…
Opera Lyra’s latest offering The Barber of Seville delivers that kind of opera A joined ribbon of everyday thoughts streams through my mind. A cup of coffee sits dangerously close to my impatient foot. The middle-aged lady sitting next to the entrance won’t stop clicking her pen and there’s a blond stagehand behind me with…
I love idea books, and so my delight at seeing these two Canadian works land on an XPress desk was palpable. Idea books follow a particular thread from inception to conclusion, and try to trace the ripples it creates. I love to wade through rivers of detailed, delightful prose and think, Wow, so the Roman Empire actually crumbled because of poor celery harvests!