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marcia johnson iPhoto caption: Headshot courtesy of Marcia Johnson.

Speaking in Draft: Marcia Johnson

"The whole reason I started writing was to give myself work, because I just wasn't getting lead roles, I wasn't getting interesting roles, and I knew that I could carry them off," says Johnson. "My goal when I wrote You Look Great Too was for people to say, ‘Oh my gosh, yes, she can play a lead’ — and then I would never have to write again. Then it turned out that writers were more in demand. I thought ‘OK, maybe I’ll write a few more plays.’"

By Nathaniel Hanula-James
iPhoto caption: Photo by Ann Baggley.

REVIEW: Here For Now’s Dinner with the Duchess is an aching étude on the cost of creative passion

Dinner with the Duchess is a tallying of an artistic life’s costs that builds a symphony out of simple presentation, resounding long past the final note.

By jonnie lombard
iPhoto caption: Photo by Dahlia Katz.

REVIEW: Wights sizzles with ambition at Crow’s Theatre

While the play’s genre-straddling form feels slightly too ambitious for its concept, this sheer ambition is exciting, challenging audiences to think, while warning us that we can only go so far with words.

By Ilana Lucas

Announcing the winners of the 2024 Nathan Cohen Awards

The Canadian Theatre Critics Association has announced the winners of the 2024 Nathan Cohen Awards for Excellence in Critical Writing, including two writers from Intermission.

By Liam Donovan
Production photo from Why it's (im)Possible, coming ot GCTC. iPhoto caption: Photo by Randy deKleine-Stimpson.

GCTC solo show traces the complex journey of parenting a trans child

“At the end of the day, the play is trying to show the messiness of parenthood, that it's not about perfection,” says Why It’s imPossible playwright Sophia Fabiilli ahead of the show’s run at the Great Canadian Theatre Company in Ottawa. “It's about finding where the discomfort is.”

By Mira Miller
Production photo of Last Landscape at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. iPhoto caption: Photo by Fran Chudnoff.

REVIEW: Bad New Days’ Last Landscape unearths raw feelings about the natural world

Last Landscape uses physical theatre, puppetry, and found objects to erode the boundaries between art and nature, human and environment.

By Ferron Delcy