When I wrote this review of an exhibit at the Canadian War Museum thirteen years ago, I had no idea how accurately it would presage the current debacle unfolding in Afghanistan today. It is also a rather shameful example of Read More …
Long time arts journalist, Deirdre Kelly, is the former dance critic for the Globe and Mail and currently serves as editor of The York University Magazine. She holds a masters degree in English from University of Toronto and is a Read More …
An excellent article in The Guardian recently (“Why Every Single Statue Should Come Down” The Guardian 01/06/21), by former Guardian columnist Gary Younge – now a professor at the University of Manchester lecturing in sociology – has come forward with Read More …
Soulpepper Theatre in Toronto continues with its highly successful streaming series of audio plays, Around the World in 80 Plays, with this seldom seen classic, Death and the King’s Horseman which premieres tomorrow. I interviewed Soyinka for the Globe and Read More …
UPDATED May 18, 2021: SOULPEPPER presents Six Characters in Search of an Author By Luigi Pirandello Directed by Daniele Bartolini Translated by Edward Storer Sound design by Matteo Ciardi Dramaturgical adaptation on translation by Daniele Bartolini and Luke Reece in Read More …
TALK IS FREE THEATRE Barrie, Ontario Arkady Spivak, Artistic Director Dinner à la Art Have you missed the combination of “dinner and a show” over the past year? Well, so have the many restaurants throughout the country who have benefited Read More …
The following article appeared in Critically Speaking (Winter/ 2021), the newsletter of the Canadian Theatre Critics Association. Normalton. Is it a place where any of us would want to live? I was moved recently by an op-ed piece that appeared Read More …
I’m Gonna Say It Now: The Writings of Phil Ochs Edited by David Cohen Backbeat Books www.rowman.com Where have all the folkies gone Long time passing Where have all the folkies gone Long time ago “One good song with a Read More …
Phil Ochs would have been 80 years old today. His life and work is worth remembering and so I’m citing a review of a play I wrote for rabble.ca when The Ballad of Phil Ochs toured the country several years Read More …
In the final act of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, a statue of Queen Hermione comes to life after 16 years of being seemingly frozen in time. Her observations and reconciliation with her daughter, Paulina, leads to a somewhat qualified happily Read More …
