Happy New Year! As I was getting over how fast 2023 went by, I realized it was time to choose a word and a song for 2024. Since they’re so closely linked this year, I thought I’d cover them in one post for a change. A light box marquee with the word: SHINE. My 2024Continue reading “Word & song of the year 2024”
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Top 5 childhood Christmas TV shows
Reposting my top 10 favourite holiday movies (again) got me thinking about the TV shows I’ve enjoyed since childhood. So, in no particular order, here are my favourite childhood Christmas TV shows (which you can still find today): A Charlie Brown Christmas Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer The Year Without a Santa Claus (Snow Miser/Heat MiserContinue reading “Top 5 childhood Christmas TV shows”
No space for hate
Today marks a day of protest and counter-protest over gender-based curriculum and sexual identity in our schools. In Ontario, the 2016 sex-ed curriculum revision introduced by the Liberal government was repealed by the current Conservative government in 2018 and largely taking curriculum back to the outdated 1998 model. Discussions of gender identity that were previouslyContinue reading “No space for hate”
Messages in light #3
Image of 16 light box marquee messages regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, created and photographed by the blogger. Once again, I’ve assembled the 16 most recent marquees into a collage. Messages of hope, support and perseverance. Vaccinations are coming. In the meantime, and even post-vaccination, we need to keep up our work and keep up-to-date withContinue reading “Messages in light #3”
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Please forgive the current state of the website. I’m gradually shifting focus and redesigning and reimagining pages. Reviews, interviews and arts events posts can still be accessed from the home page; scroll down to find the Search function in the footer.
#MeToo from the other side in the sharply funny, provocative Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes
Alice Snaden & Matthew Edison. Set & costume design by Michael Gianfrancesco. Lighting design by Bonnie Beecher. Photo by Joy von Tiedemann. Tarragon Theatre kicks off the New Year with the premiere of Hannah Moscovitch’s sharply funny, provocative #MeToo look at a student/professor affair in Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, directed by SarahContinue reading “#MeToo from the other side in the sharply funny, provocative Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes”
Happy holidays!
And all good things for 2020! Stay tuned for a few year-end holiday show reviews and my annual Top 10 Theatre list.
Hope, spirit & skepticism in the vital, timely The Election
Clockwise from top: Anand Rajaram, Rachel Cairns, Augusto Bitter & Joelle Peters. Set design by Anahita Dehbonehie. Lighting design by Kaitlin Hickey. Costume design by Jackie Chau. Photo by John Lauener. Common Boots Theatre, in association with Nightwood Theatre and Theatre Direct, explores the hope, spirit and skepticism on the ground during the 2015 CanadianContinue reading “Hope, spirit & skepticism in the vital, timely The Election”
Desperation, desire & cruelty in the ferocious, electric, heart-breaking A Streetcar Named Desire
Amy Rutherford and Mac Fyfe. Set design by Lorenzo Savoini. Costume design by Rachel Forbes. Lighting design by Kimberly Purtell. Photo by Dahlia Katz. Soulpepper sets the stage on fire with a slow burn of desperation, desire and cruelty in its ferocious, electric, heart-breaking production of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by ADContinue reading “Desperation, desire & cruelty in the ferocious, electric, heart-breaking A Streetcar Named Desire”
Toronto Fringe: Twelfth Night from Malvolio’s perspective in the riveting, visceral and cerebral I, Malvolio
Justin Otto. Photo by John Gundy. impel theatre gives us Malvolio’s perspective of the events from Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night in Tim Crouch’s riveting, visceral, cerebral I, Malvolio, directed by Kendra Jones, assisted by clown consultant Calvin Peterson. I, Malvolio had its closing performance at the Smart Cookie Club at Artscape Youngplace last night. As weContinue reading “Toronto Fringe: Twelfth Night from Malvolio’s perspective in the riveting, visceral and cerebral I, Malvolio”
life with more cowbell 