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 […]

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 […]

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