Green theatre

A couple of great posts recently at American theatre artist Mike Lawler’s ecoTheatre blog: “The ecoTheater project is concerned with how as theater artists we can strive to create theater without sacrificing the environment and the long term health of our communities. I believe this can be done without making compromises in our process . […]

Money for theatre

“Maybe you should pop on over to the website of your favorite theater company and make a small online donation? Why not?” – Matt Freeman How about one of these Toronto-based independent theatre companies: Alchemy Theatre Bluemouth Inc. Cart/Horse Theatre halfbreed productions MackenzieRo MooseGuts Theatre One Little Goat Oyster Productions Praxis Theatre Seventh Stage Theatre […]

Canada’s war on theatre

In last week’s Globe and Mail, national theatre critic J. Kelly Nestruck asks Where’s our war on our stages? – contrasting the relative abundance of Iraq war drama in Toronto against the dearth of Afghanistan-related productions: “Isn’t it about time Canadian playwrights, directors and actors started grappling with a war their fellow countrymen are actually […]

Mike Daisey on theatrical discourse

“I also have a vested interest in lowering the politeness level in theatrical discourse—which, I hasten to add, is not the same as throwing away civility. I’ve just seen far too many ‘discussions’ that should have been full-voiced arguments, too many passions squelched in the face of institutionalized hopelessness, and just too much damn silence, […]

Non-theatre-related blogs

Many thanks to everyone who shared their favourite non-theatre- related blogs with us. Lots of great suggestions came up. Here’s the list: 37days By Ken Levine chromewaves Crooks and Liars Daily dose of imagery Daily Kos Etiquetteer Glenn Greenwald indexed In the sky & on the road Jezebel Nerd Fighters The New Optimist Orangette Phantasmaphile […]

What’s your favourite non-theatre-related blog?

Hi there. We could use an injection of non-theatre-related bloggy goodness around here. Does anyone have any recommendations? If you could recommend just one or two non-theatre blogs, what would they be? Just drop a link in the comments section below, or send us an email, and we’ll post the full list in a couple […]

“Vancouver has too many cheerleading critics . . .”

The good people over at The Next Stage theatre blog have conducted and posted a wonderful interview with Vancouver-based theatre critic Colin Thomas (Georgia Straight). There’s even a choice piece of Toronto bashing as told to Colin by Daniel MacIvor: “Daniel MacIvor told me once that he likes premiering work in Vancouver because audiences here […]