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For the Love of Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor

There’s a buzz throughout the Four Seasons Centre on the opening night of Lucia. Perhaps it’s the start anew of the spring season or perhaps the audience is in on a little secret: ground is going to be broken t...

For the love of Opera: The Magic Flute

In my workplace, I always like to play to my strengths, because I produce better work when I know I’m passionate about it. And even if it’s the same task I’m executing, each version has its own interpretation a...

Theatre Review: True West

Sam Shepard is a great writer.  With 50 published plays and a Pulitzer Prize under his belt there is no disputing that.  His characters are never run of the mill—they are usually damaged in some way.  The situa...

Theatre Review: La Ronde

I love the adaptation by Jason Sherman of Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde currently on stage at Soulpepper.  So much of Schnitzler’s original was implied but Sherman’s version has a much harder edge.  It is unapol...

Theatre Review: This

The Canadian Stage production of This is a unique theatrical experience.  Set designer Astrid Janson, has stripped the Berkeley Street Theater down to the bones and brought it back as close as possible to i...