Totally. You should have been on the list. I’m working on an revised and updated list. And yours was already on it. Will post in the next couple of days.

Cheers!

if the person lives in Toronto, devotes themselves on someway to theatre, and writes about it on the internet, it would seem to qualify to me.

I fit the criteria. 🙂

the quantification of the value of theatre is annoying. the NY Times is still the most weighty review you can receive on this continent precisely because they don’t assign a numerical value to their criticism.

you have to read the argument for a particular perspective on a production. no one ever says, “i don’t know, maybe i’ll see it. brantley gave it three stars.” they either know what he wrote and why he wrote it or not.

to completely contradict myself though, the way kelly’s set up his blog, it’s like the rottentomatoes of canadian theatre. you can access all the reviews of a show from one location and i like that a lot. 1 review is an opinion. 6 reviews is a trend.

“A wise woman once sat me down and informed me that adjectives are not my friends. The paralysis is implicit in the unanswerability. Pick an adjective and go with it.”

‘Paralyzingly’ is an adverb, not an adjective. Ooh, the nitpicker gets picked!

Anyway, I was just taking the piss, folks. I want to read Mike’s kick-ass job on Luminato, and I agree that people from outside of Toronto are people too, mostly.

A wise woman once sat me down and informed me that adjectives are not my friends. The paralysis is implicit in the unanswerability. Pick an adjective and go with it.

Ok, ok, I have more to say than just nitpicking about syntax. Comedy and musical theatre blogs would certainly count on my list. As for why limit it to Toronto, you (and I) live and write and make theatre in Toronto, and I assume the idea of the list is to try and create a blogging community of writers/performers/theatre whatevers, right? Isn’t THAT the value, to have as many other people to engage with as possible?

Otherwise, what IS the point of such a list?

I like people who aren’t in Toronto, too. Just FYI.

I also like changing the topic: go see Minotaur. It’s scary.