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...
Martin Sherman Bent, Nathaniel Bacon and Ryan G. Hinds on stage, Hart House, Toronto, Ontario

Theatre Review: Bent

Bent, Martin Sherman’s haunting 1979 play, looks at the persecution of gays in Nazi, Germany.   The original London production starred Ian McKellan.  This must have been risqué theater at the time, when mos...