Fiction Writer, Poet, Playwright, Educator, Memoir Writer and Literary Critic
I saw Rossini’s Maometto II at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto on May 5, 2016. It was sung in Italian with English translations projected above the stage. Although this opera is entitled Maometto II, the main character is really young Anna,…
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Tuck Everlasting is a musical about an eleven-year-old girl named Winnie Foster (Sarah Charles Lewis) who longs to escape her house and have adventures. She gets her wish when she meets her mysterious neighbors, the Tuck family. The Tucks need…
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Outsiders: American Photography and Film, 1950s-1980s at the Art Gallery of Ontario includes work by photographers Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin, Danny Lyon, Gordon Parks, Garry Winogrand, and cross-dressing individuals at Casa Susanna, and filmmakers Kenneth Anger, Shirley Clarke, Robert Frank…
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