Recent Blog Posts

Why Alberta Audiences are different from any other in Canada.

Read my Q&A with Jean Grand-Maître, Nicole Mion, Les Sereda and Brian Webb on The Dance Current website.


The Art of Balance: Life of a Theatre Professional

My guest series blog post for Arts Commons.


Recent Reviews

Alberta Theatre Projects’ and The Citadel Theatre’s production of ‘Casey & Diana’ is quiet heartbreak.

Refusing dehumanization is the theme of Casey & Diana, a co-production between Alberta Theatre Projects and The Citadel Theatre, written by Nick Green. Casey House was Canada’s first stand-alone facility for people living with HIV/AIDS. It opened in 1988, during the height of the AIDS epidemic. People living with the disease were often ostracized and abandoned by […]

Theatre Calgary’s production ‘The Tale of the Gifted Prince’ is a gift to Calgary.

Theatre Calgary’s world premiere of The Tale of the Gifted Prince is based on the novel The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen. This musical production in partnership with Somerled Arts, with book and lyrics by Lezlie Wade and music by Daniel Green, is an epic production, with a cast of artists from across Canada and the US. The musical […]

Preview: Sage Theatre’s R&J is a hopeful look at a classic tragedy.

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a timeless script that depicts young love. And it’s not a production that Calgary has been unfamiliar with this year. Monster Theatre and One Yellow Rabbit took on the script as part of the High Performance Rodeo and put a feminist spin on it, examining why the Bard’s female characters […]