Handwringing over popular fiction is hardly a thing of the past, as present panic about Romantasy attests. Unsurprisingly, both genres have a reputation for attracting women readers. Tyler J. Seguin’s Northanger Abbey displays how legitimate literary criticism can devolve into worrying that women are having too much fun.
By Ferron Delcy /Aug 10, 2026
iPhoto caption: Kiana Woo, Andrew Prashad, Georgia Findlay, and Isaiah Kolundzic in 'Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey.' Photo by Raph Nogal.
For Woo, coming back to the Guild for the first time in four years — after working at Shaw, Soulpepper, the Citadel Theatre, and Théâtre Français de Toronto — feels like a homecoming.
Intermission's senior editor Aisling Murphy reflects on her time as an embedded critic with the cast and creative team of The Exhale, a new play by Lisa Alves about polyamory, queerness, and air conditioners.