March round-up

A few selections from our March posts: Free arts marketing book! 10 questions: Greatest hits – Volume V A little piece of Toronto theatre history Tarragon Theatre announces new season What is theatre good for? The value of theatre? Wow! Has evil triumphed in our time? Free theatre Public Relations guide Performance artists Tanya Mars […]

10 questions: Tyrone Benskin

1) What the fuck is going on?Lots of stuff is happening right now. We are in preproduction for our Mainstage show, which has a Toronto connection: d’bi young’s blood.claat. It opens on the 26th of March. We also have our Fall and Spring Discovery readings, which are part of a new play reading initiative we’ve […]

Icelandic theatre?

Time Out New York theatre critic David Cote has posted a sneak peak of his upcoming feature for Theatre magazine – a piece on Iceland’s burgeoning theatre scene. A sample: “So the country is stable, affluent and educated. There is a healthy theatergoing culture, but a self-sustaining experimental scene still needs to be nurtured. Iceland […]

Free theatre Public Relations guide

Back in 2003, the good folks at Theatre Ontario put together a 31-page Public Relations manual called: For Immediate Release: A Step-by-Step Guide For Theatre Publicists.Lots of great insight contained within, and a valuable resource for any independent theatre company. Download the PDF here.

Out and about

Actor/Director Hume Baugh (The Girl in the Picture Tries to Hang Up the Phone, Child Hood) wasn’t happy to see photographers while leaving this house on Toronto’s trendy Queen Street East. His production of All’s Well That Ends Well opens March 26, 2008 at Alchemy Theatre. Spotted any hot theatre talent out and aboutin your […]

Has evil triumphed in our time?

In our recent interview with her, Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch brought up the following five questions: Has evil triumphed in our time? What form will the revolution take? To what degree are we responsible for the other people in our society? Is nationality still the locus of identity? Does art have to be a formal […]

10 questions: Hannah Moscovitch

1) What the fuck is going on?I’m writing a lot. 2) Why do you write plays?Oh I don’t fucking know. 3) Do you tend to feel satisfied with your final drafts, or do you obsess over what could have been better?I’m always engaged in refining my work. I’m holding off on publishing one of my […]

The value of theatre? Wow!

Ok. That was impressive: Theatreforté’s “What is the value of theatre” discussion-prompt snowballed into a theatrosphere-wide tsunami (apologies for the mixed metaphor) – and at last count there were 32 blogs that tackled the topic yesterday, and countless conversations falling from those posts. All of this adding up to an embarrassment of insight. Here at […]

What is theatre good for?

Members of the theatre blog community across North America are putting their collective blogs together today in an attempt to answer one of our industry’s most pressing and elusive questions: What is the value of theatre? Organized by Theatreforte writer Matt Slaybaugh, here’s an outline of the topic that’s been sent around to theatre bloggers: […]

A little piece of Toronto theatre history

In a recent post called Theatre Kultur, New York-based theatre blogger Nick Fracaro reflects on his time spent in Toronto’s independent theatre trenches during the 1980s: “In the early ’80s we were living in the alternative theatre and punk scene in Toronto. Headquarters was at the Cameron. Paul Sannella was both bartender and owner. He […]

Out and about

Eric Peterson (Necessary Angel’s Half Life, TV’s Corner Gas) and Caroline Gillis (Tarragon’s How It Works, da da kamera’s A Beautiful View) outside the Capitol Event Theatre before Necessary Angel’s 3 Plays/1 Day Gala. (Thanks to Daniel MacIvor for the photo.) Spotted any hot theatre talent out and aboutin your neighbourhood?Send us your starstruck theatre […]