Around the time that smartphones became ubiquitous, I stopped going to the movies. I hated the way people would talk and text their way through a film, and it drove me to distraction the callous attitudes of movie-goers towards their fellow audience members. So I stopped going altogether. I much preferred to wait the three …
I love stories. I love to watch them, listen to them, and get in lost in them, and I don’t care if their delivery is simple and minimalistic, or majestic and grand. All I want is to be told a good story. I often wonder if this is why I love theatre so much, because …
When I was 14, my family and I travelled to Belgium, and it was during this trip that we spent a day driving around the countryside of Flanders, more commonly known as Flanders Fields. Nearly a century ago, this land was the site of The World War, The Great War, and ultimately, World War I, …
I love theatre. And I’m not talking about a casual fondness. No, this is a can’t-live-without-it type of love. It’s a love affair that began as a young child, and has since spanned a couple of decades, many continents, well over a thousand shows, and one career spent backstage at countless theatres. It is one …
“It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.” As far as the first line of a book …
I am often stubbornly, and at times irrationally, adverse to embracing new technology, and while I’m working on it, change comes slowly, and sometimes I need a good shove in the right direction. In the spring of 2010, a good friend of mine provided one such shove when he sent me a link to a …
I have always been fascinated by the first episode of a television series, known as the pilot episode, because there is something unique to the art of creating great pilots. They have the incredibly difficult task of introducing several new characters simultaneously, establishing the relationships and dynamics between them, outlining the premise of the show, …