Useless theatre fact of the day

Using google’s image search functionality, you get approximately 44,700,000 image results for “theatre”. This is the first one:And this is the last one:Try it yourself. Click here (with “Moderate SafeSearch” enabled). Results may vary by geographic location. Do you agree with google? Are the drama masks really theatre’s most significant image? If not, then what […]

How to build an audience base

What’s the better way to build an emerging theatre city’s audience base: by showing them local productions about local issues or by showing them “great”, time-tested plays with universal themes? Vancouver-based playwright Simon Ogden asks the question today at his The Next Stage theatre blog: “Would they prefer to see plays set in other cities […]

Factory girls

Dancers Amy Hampton and Keiko Ninomiya go palms up outside Toronto’s Factory Theatre after their show Love, So Says . . . Love is slated to go to Japan in January. Spotted any hot theatre talent out and aboutin your neighbourhood?Send us your starstruck theatre photos:celebrity@praxistheatre.com