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 […]
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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.
Bluebeard
Now playing at the 2008 Toronto Fringe Festival. Click here for more information on this show.
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 […]
A case for criticism
Toronto theater blogger Chris Dupuis weighs in on the role of the critic, here.
Careerism versus artistic integrity
Is it okay for a theatre artist to be more interested in building their career than making good art?
We advertise your Fringe show – free!
Sounds impossible – and slightly suspect – we know. But here’s what we’re thinking: Send us a digital version of your 2008 Toronto Fringe Festival postcard or poster, and we’ll post it here on our blog, sometime between now and the end of the festival. Simple. We get to learn more about your show, look […]
Crybabyism
cry.ba.by.ism – noun 1. the belief that these are “tough times” and that the solution is smaller, blander shows. 2. Artistic Direction in accordance with this belief. Source: Anonymous – 2008.
Critical lockout
Over at his Superfluities Redux theatre blog, New York writer George Hunka has penned a damning assessment of contemporary Western theatre criticism – and a call for an end to the critical apparatus as we know it: “Given the place of the reviewing and critical community in the post-capitalist ideology that maintains journalists, the business […]
May round-up
A few selections from our May posts: Mackintosh, MacIvor, Murphy . . . Modern Western theatre is dominated by realism Don Hall on theatrical discourse Theatre history Theatre communion or revolt? Praxis Theatre special edition desktop wallpaper Theatre of joy 10 questions: Greatest hits – Volume VI New theatre blog friends Toronto theatre blogs
The future of the Canadian Stage
Now that Martin Bragg has announced he will be stepping down, who do you think should replace him as Artistic Producer of The Canadian Stage Company?
We advertise your Fringe show – free!
Sounds impossible – and slightly suspect – we know. But here’s what we’re thinking: Send us a digital version of your 2008 Toronto Fringe Festival postcard or poster, and we’ll post it here on our blog, sometime between now and the end of the festival. Simple. We get to learn more about your show, look […]