Articles by Michael Potter

Picture this: a young middle-class couple eagerly awaits the arrival of their second-born son. Things seem to be going well with their first son, who’s rowdy, as many young children are, but normal and happy. […]

It’s impossible to work in the Windsor-Essex theatre industry without hearing about Joey Ouellette. For more than thirty years Ouellette’s Purple Theatre Company (PTC) was a creative behemoth in the region, producing more than 200 […]

It’s hard to predict what will grow next in the twisted, fertile garden of Edele Winnie’s imagination. The reclusive Windsor-based writer won the 2019 Windsor-Essex Playwriting Contest with the surreal psychological fantasy Pry It From […]

As the Windsor-Essex Playwriting Contest enters its fifth year, more local writers than ever before have expressed interest in entering their scripts. So, Post Productions thought it might help to round up and summarize advice […]

How do you assess the value, the meaning, the success of your own life? What truly matters in life? How wide is the gap between who you are and who you want to be? And […]

It started with a simple request made out of frustration. When Tall Tale Theatre Co. held its online monologue contest in the spring of 2020, one actress found most monologues for women were, well, boring, […]

Thirty years ago a brutal murder rocked the world of a rookie homicide detective. Now, on the verge of retirement, that detective has the chance to finally put the case to rest. But can he? […]

A posh hotel room in Leeds, England. The door opens and Cate bounds in. She’s a young woman, 21 at most, clearly enthralled by what she sees. She exudes energy, positivity, and innocence. Soon Ian […]

September 2021 marks five years since Post Productions was founded. A lot has changed over the course of this theatre company’s existence. A lot hasn’t. I find myself reflecting on all of it. In 2016, […]

First they were stories — stories scattered across hundreds of letters written by nurses who’d graduated from Windsor’s Grace Hospital. In anticipation of the hospital’s centennial, local author, historian, and former poet laureate Marty Gervais […]