1) What the fuck is going on?We don’t talk on the phone any more. We silently communicate by email. Is this good? In a way. The phone is a most peculiar instrument; I mean I could be talking to someone who’s making faces at me and I’d never see it. Emailing can feel like letter […]
Month: February 2008
Out and about
Courtenay Stevens – who played the Architect/Sailor in CanStage’s The Overcoat – was spotted chatting on his cellphone outside Bread & Circus theatre bar in Toronto’s Kensington Market.Word on the street is that he’s remounting his production of Lawrence & Holloman at this edgy, downtown theatre in early April. Spotted any hot theatre talent out […]
Has Canadian theatre lost the plot?
Good question. Alec Scott address it and more in his insightful piece on the current state of Toronto theatre in this month’s issue of Toronto Life. A sample: “In general, there’s too much quirky self-indulgence, not enough committed storytelling; too much about other times, other places, too little about how we live here and now. […]
January round-up
A few selections from our January posts: Can we talk about your theatre company’s website? Great women-focused theatre The importance of costume design in independent theatre Celebrity Theatre – Beatriz Yuste Support Local Artists Working (SLAW) 10 First Nations comedians 101 sentences about theatre – conclusion
10 questions: Autumn Smith
1) What the fuck is going on? 21-year-old Bushmills; Curb Your Enthusiasm – Season 6; and my upcoming tickets to Flogging Molly (Toronto) and The Pogues – Shane MacGowan is still breathing – fuck yeah! (Boston). In between, working on Disco Pigs (MacKenzieRo) and The Rake’s Progress: Do You Know Where Tom Rakewell Is? (Equity […]
The Rhubarb Festival is on
It’s Hard To Count To A MillionMarc Tellex, Megan Flynn, Frank Colc O’Connell, Evan Webber(photo by istoica) Buddies in Bad Times Theatre’s awesome Rhubard Festival kicks off this week in Toronto. Week One of the festival brings 1848 Experiment #1, It’s hard to count to a million, HOMOgeius, Where the wild things are: A manifesto, […]
Build Your Own Theatre – Part II
Next stepsby Michael Wheeler Okay, so, eight months after my original Build Your Own Theatre (BYOT) post, I’m back with a new proposition. The original proposition, which basically bartered help improving The Lower Ossington Theatre for rehearsal space, went pretty well. We got the building into much better shape over the summer and fall: The […]
10 questions remixed: Unifying theories – Part II
Dylan Studebaker 1) Do you have any unifying theories when it comes to performing magic? Only the three rules: to dare, to know, and to will – and (I guess it’s four rules) to keep silent. Bluemouth Inc. L-R Stephen O’Connell, Richard Windeyer, Lucy Simic, Sabrina Reeves. 2) Do you have any unifying theories about […]
Theatre school in the age of compliance
If it’s broke – fix itBy Scott Walters Hello, Fellow North Americans! Ian Mackenzie has asked me to write a guest post for Theatre is Territory, which I am happy to do. Ian inflated my ego far beyond manageable bounds last spring when he interviewed me here, and I am pleased to have the opportunity […]
How theatre failed America
New York-based monologuist Mike Daisey’s scathing indictment of the American theatre machine has been getting a lot of much-deserved attention in the theatrosphere. Read his entire editorial for Seattle’s The Stranger newspaper here. (Thanks to Scott Walters and Parabasis for the heads up.)
10 questions: Erika Batdorf
Photos by David Leyes. 1) What the fuck is going on?Not enough really long games of Monopoly and too much caffeine to make it through the grant applications. Not enough skating and too much driving. BUT some kind of internal explosion of creativity and freeing up of some very old internal ice . . . […]
A new play
Pretty Toughby Brendan Gall White. A baby sings the highest and lowest audible notes simultaneously for one minute. Lights fade down. The baby hovers next to an operating Rube Goldberg machine. (in Basque) This perpetual-motion machine is calculating π. Time. The baby whistles. A wolf appears. This is my pet wolf. (petting him) I’m the […]
Watch this space for new work by playwright Brendan Gall
Coming this Thursday, February 7, Praxis Theatre is thrilled to present a world wide web exclusive: a brand new short dramatic work by Canadian playwright Brendan Gall. The piece is called Pretty Tough. And we’ll be posting the entire text right here on this blog on Thursday morning. If you are familiar with Gall’s work, […]
Tonight in Toronto . . .
Please join Praxis Theatre for the next entry in our series of original play readings. This month, we are pleased to present Taylor Sutherland’s The Sand Factory. WHAT: Reading of Taylor Sutherland’s The Sand FactoryWHEN: Monday, February 4 @ 8 pm WHERE: The Concord Café – 937 Bloor St. West(Just West of Ossington subway station […]
10 questions: Alison Broverman
1) What the fuck is going on? I’ve been laying pretty low for the past few months, actually, recovering from an intensely exhilarating summer (my first Fringe show! Yikes!). Writing about this and that, seeing as much theatre as I can, very quietly working on my second play. Oh, and a friend of mine and […]