Here’s a great blog dedicated to the art of stage lighting: On Stage Lighting. “The site hopes to stimulate thoughts and debate about many aspects of: Stage LightingLighting Basics and Principles. Lighting DesignFrom learning lighting design to what current stage Lighting Designers are doing. Stage Lighting EquipmentInformation on equipment use, technical considerations and best practice. […]
Month: October 2007
10 questions: Charles Nolte
1) What the fuck is going on? What the fuck is going on? Everything and nothing. The Royal Shakespeare from Stratford is in town giving us The Seagull and King Lear in repertory at the Guthrie. What the fuck does Trevor Nunn think he’s doing, casting Nina with a novice who plays Nina as a […]
80 years of theatre-y goodness!
The Toronto Star today reports the 40th birthdays of two great local theatres: Theatre Passe Muraille and Théâtre français de Toronto. We are at once envious and proud. Happy birthdays!
The new Gypsy Roar
The Hamilton-based theatre blog Gypsy Roar has relocated – with a clean new look, a bold new logo and an inspired new mandate: “Essentially I want to document my journey as a foreigner in a land I have no knowledge of, starting a theatre company with what I know and what I have, and see […]
Out and about
Actor Cole J. Alvis seen here leaving Equity Showcase Theatre.(Toronto, Canada) Spotted any hot theatre talent out and aboutin your neighbourhood?Send us your starstruck theatre photos:celebrity@praxistheatre.com
10 questions: Adam Seelig
1) What the fuck is going on?Exactly.2) What is “poetic theatre”?Theatre that attempts to find clarity through ambiguity. Not verse theatre. Nor prose theatre or journalistic theatre. It is theatre that treats the text as a score, and treats the gap between actor and audience not as an obstacle to bypass, but as a medium […]
Stage lighting
A lovely image of light and movement courtesy of Vancouver-based lighting designer Itai Erdal. This is from Co. Vision Selective and the Holly Body Tattoo’s Vision Impure. Choreographer Noam Gagnon. Performers Noam Gagnon and Sonja Perreten. Lighting design by Itai Erdal.
Previews now playing
At Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre. Click through for more info and box office.
On discourse and narration
A theatre blog’s first birthday
Wow. Has it really been a year since we started this blog? Yes. Yes it has. My, how time flies. It flies so far away. If there is anything that’s become clear during the first year of this exercise in cultural cartography it’s that we’ve only just scratched the surface of what we can learn […]
A wake up call for the West
Vancouver-based playwright and theatre blogger Simon Ogden has thrown down an inspiring call to action for the “latent theatre town” he calls home: “. . . we keep plugging away, show after show, using the same marketing tactics and theatres and programs and street cards and posters and fundraisers . . . and theatre doesn’t […]
Ontario’s referendum
On Wednesday, October 10, (in addition to the provincial election) Ontarians are being asked to vote on the following question: Which electoral system should Ontario use to elect members to the provincial legislature? The existing electoral system (First-Past-the-Post)? The alternative electoral system proposed by the Citizens’ Assembly (Mixed Member Proportional)? Click here for more info […]
10 questions: Greatest hits – Volume IV
Jennifer Norton 1) What the fuck is going on?Well, as we choke on the ubiquity of war, pollution, crumbling social structures and global malaise I am preparing a solo show. How dandy! Here is the more polite, less misanthropic answer. I am finishing a master of fine arts program at The University of Guelph, then […]
Supashiza
Our good friends at Supashiza have just released a new video, Deutsche Musickschiessen. Still not sure where these guys are from or what it all means, but giddy up – it’s weird. Enjoy!
Theatre link love
Today’s episode of Theatre link love features five (somewhat) mainstream news outlets and their valuable coverage of Canadian theatre. CBC.ca has a great national theatre page, as does the online-only canoe.ca. For more local coverage, there’s The Toronto Star, which, in addition to its focus on Toronto theatre, also reports on some national and provincial […]