Articles by Michael Potter

After months of reading, discussing, and writing page upon page of feedback, Post Productions has finally revealed the winner of its 2023 Windsor-Essex Playwriting Contest: Which Way, Millennial Man? by Jonathan Tessier. With this win […]

The neighbourhood is called Butcher’s Town. It’s a slum of grey buildings, grey streets, grey skies, grey moods. You can hear children playing, their voices echoing in thin corridors between old brick buildings that were […]

After several years of pandemic-induced rescheduling, Post Productions will finally stage David Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Glengarry Glen Ross for a three-week (eight performance) run beginning 14 April 2023. Although the play was written forty […]

Whether they’re just starting out or several decades into their careers in the arts, actors and playwrights alike will get a chance to show local audiences what they’re capable of in The 2023 Edele Winnie […]

You’re sixteen years old. Highschool officials inform you that now you have to make a choice to pursue, say, a future in science or a future in art. You’re told you can’t have both. You […]

2022 started on a hopeful note as theatre companies and other local businesses looked forward to a, well, not quite post-pandemic year – finally. Despite the fact that the virus that shall not be named […]

Winter will soon be upon us, and with it innumerable sidewalks covered in snow, never to be shoveled, maddeningly preventing disabled people from using the sidewalks in their own neighbourhoods. We seldom think about that, […]

It starts with a briefcase. Joey (played by Luke Boughner), a twenty-something phone repairman and occasional petty criminal, found a mysterious briefcase in an alley. Now he’s at home, eager to see what’s inside, but […]

On September 10th a fundraiser called Let There Be Light will be held at Rock Bottom Bar and Grill to help The Shadowbox Theatre recover from three years of pandemic-induced debt. This comes just as […]

When I was a kid I watched a lot of nature documentaries. One thing that always fascinated me – apart from animals’ bizarre eating behaviours – was the variety of mating rituals used by different […]