Just four more days to go at this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival. Any last-minute recommendations?
Month: July 2008
Nestruck on Theatre
In case you missed it, The Globe and Mail’s national theatre critic, J. Kelly Nestruck, has started a Globe theatre blog called Nestruck on Theatre: “This is where critic J. Kelly Nestruck posts his review after-thoughts and keeps an eye on what’s going on in theatre across Canada and around the world.” This is a new […]
Canadian theatre history
Three Canadian theatre research organizations, three mandates, three links: Theatre Museum Canada“Our objectives are: To collect and preserve artifacts to illustrate, interpret and make known the history of theatre in Canada; To produce outstanding and innovative programs and exhibitions; To use the highest ethical standards in all aspects of museum operations; To raise the resources […]
How to build an empire – a Boy Scout’s guide
Now playing at the 2008 Toronto Fringe Festival. Click here for more info on this show.
June round-up
A few selections from our June posts: Celebrity theatre – Terrence Bryant Intimate performance is overrated Lumi-not-go Dora Award nominees – independent theatre Theatre cat is back! We advertise your Fringe show – free! Blogging about theatre blogging Dufferin Grove is the pinnacle of Western civilization The future of the Canadian Stage Critical lockout Crybabyism […]
Domestic
Now playing at the 2008 Toronto Fringe Festival. Click here for more info on this show.
10 questions: Shaun McComb
1) What the fuck is going on?“What the fuck is with the Yorkshire dialect?” is what I want to know. It is as hard to pin down . . . I am cramming at the moment trying to get my mouth around this dialect for my first rehearsal of The Secret Garden on Tuesday. I […]
Bluebeard
Now playing at the 2008 Toronto Fringe Festival. Click here for more information on this show.
A moratorium on Shakespeare
From Lyn Gardner at the Guardian UK theatre blog, Should Shakespeare be barred?: “Shakespeare is our cultural medicine, often nasty but we swallow it all the same because like cod liver oil we think it must be good for us.” “As the US critic Gordon Rogoff so succinctly put it: ‘Shakespeare is feared by the […]
The Shift
Now playing at the 2008 Toronto Fringe Festival. Click here for more information on this show.
Dora award winners
Awesome to be nominated, awesome to win . . . here are the winners in the Independent theatre category for the 2008 Dora Awards: Outstanding new playAnusree Roy – Pyaasa Outstanding productionWaiting for Godot – Modern Times Stage CompanyOutstanding directionSoheil Parsa – Waiting for Godot Outstanding performance by a maleNicco Lorenzo Garcia – People PowerOutstanding […]