A Theatre Buff Comments on MAGGIE: A New Musical. It Hits The Mark.
If you loved Come From Away and The Last Ship, then MAGGIE is the hat-trick. Community. Family. Motherhood. Sons. Girlfriends. This play has it all.
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A Theatre Buff Says Good-bye For Now
My muse returned this March; I’m thrilled. I began a new manuscript — fiction— that addresses literacy. I also revised the second manuscript on aging. This latter one has just come back from my editor and there is more work to do. Time set aside for the keyboard is now strictly reserved for creation and revision.
Next To Normal Offers Hope
Next To Normal is a play about a family who may never achieve ‘normal’, but it is a family who will be content to live as close to normal as they can.
Review: The Last Ship
A compassionate take on the demise of a British shipyard.
A Theatre Buff Reviews Elf – The Musical
Brent Thiessen’s smile radiates light, love and good-will.
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory Whips Up Delicious Confections
I’ll begin with a confession. My husband and I drove into Toronto this week to see Charlie And The Chocolate Factory having never read the book, nor seen the movies*. The thought at top of mind as we sat in traffic was, Why are we going to see another bloody musical, and a children’s production…
A Theatre Buff Reviews The Father
There are public nightmares, and then there are private terrors. We know the former well, or think we do, as they repeat themselves on the news cycle. But a diagnosis for which there is no treatment can be equally harrowing as it slowly and persistently shreds the core of self and family. Dementia is one…
A Theatre Buff Reviews O’Flaherty V.C.
O’Flaherty V.C. is the quintessential Shavian play. The time period is World War I; the setting is just before tea-time in the courtyard of a general’s manor house. In the space of a forty-five minute one act play, Shaw skewers religion, politics, education, war, and the British class system. O’Flaherty V.C. is fast, funny, and provocative;…
A Theatre Buff Reviews Three Plays from the Shaw Festival – 2018: The Baroness and the Pig, Stage Kiss, and Grand Hotel
Some theatrical productions get inside my mind and are hard to shake out. The Baroness and the Pig is one of those plays. I saw it in early June and thought it was excellent, but couldn’t find time to comment. It’s niggled away ever since. The Baroness and the Pig is an unusual story about…
A Theatre Buff Reviews Coriolanus
This is a difficult confession to make public: I don’t love Shakespeare. I select which Shakespearean plays to see at Stratford based upon the the lead actors not the script. This year’s casting of André Sills in the role of Coriolanus is inspired. Over the past few years I have observed Sills at the Shaw…
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