The project: assemble a definitive list of Canadian theatre blogs.
Our criteria: to be included on this list, the blog must have posted at least once within the past 30 days; the blog must identify as Canadian; and it must be primarily focused on theatre. And in the interest of keeping things independent, blogs that are offshoots of larger publications (for example, the theatre section on the BlogTO website) are ineligible for inclusion on this list.
The methodology: google blog search for “canadian theatre”, call for submissions (here and here), and anecdotal experience.
The list:
Daniel MacIvor’s notebook – Halifax
Compass Points – Ottawa
Third Wall Blog – Ottawa
Canadian Theatre Festivals – Ontario
Time and space – Toronto
Mooney on theatre – Toronto
Off the Fence – Toronto
One big umbrella – Toronto
Spinning/and/spinning – Toronto
SummerWorks Blog – Toronto
The TAPA blog – Toronto
Theatre is territory – Toronto
The Wrecking Ball – Toronto
Gypsy Roar – Hamilton
Moosguts Live – Winnipeg
Geeks on Drama – Vancouver
The Next Stage – Vancouver
Vancouver on stage – Vancouver
Victoria Theatre Reviews – VictoriaUPDATE I
Grinder’s Grumblings – Wellington
On my knees – TorontoUPDATE II
Otherwise – Vancouver
Is this a definitive list? Probably not. This is an ongoing project. If you know of a blog that fits the above criteria, please email us the link, or drop it in the comments section of this post. Thanks!
Nice try, but it ain’t a very big list; no fault of of yours. If the more established theatre companies had their sh*t together (they never will!), they’d make blogging (and open commenting) an essential, daily part of their mandate.
How about a blog from us theatre heretics out in the boonies? I’m not from a major centre, I run a theatre company that is blurring the lines between amateur and professional, and I’m having much more fun than I ever did when I worked in the biz. Check us out at http://grindersgrumblings.blogspot.com
Thanks for compiling this list; you’ve already mentioned a couple of my favourites!
I’d like to add two more:
Michael Rubenfeld’s Summerworks blog and Cathy Gordon’s On My Knees…
~ Erin Klee
Thanks Grinder, Erin,
Grinder’s Grumblings and On my knees have been added. The SummerWorks blog was already on the list.
I wonder if the On my knees blog falls under the criteria of being “primarily focused on theatre”?
Not trying to throw up obstacles, just parameters so that the list doesn’t become an arbitrary collection of inclusions and exclusions.
On my knees? A theatre blog? What do you think?
Thanks!
Please keep ’em coming.
for what it’s worth, i think “on my knees” is primarily focused on theatre. just not theatre in a theatre. which is okay, cause cathy spends her days running one of those.
I was actually going to compile a list myself for an article in the Harold but you beat me to it. It’s a good list and it led me to a couple of places I haven’t been before. One small thing – how come you haven’t linked to Daniel’s blog?