Many thanks to everyone who shared their favourite non-theatre- related blogs with us. Lots of great suggestions came up. Here’s the list: 37days By Ken Levine chromewaves Crooks and Liars Daily dose of imagery Daily Kos Etiquetteer Glenn Greenwald indexed In the sky & on the road Jezebel Nerd Fighters The New Optimist Orangette Phantasmaphile […]
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What’s your favourite non-theatre-related blog?
Hi there. We could use an injection of non-theatre-related bloggy goodness around here. Does anyone have any recommendations? If you could recommend just one or two non-theatre blogs, what would they be? Just drop a link in the comments section below, or send us an email, and we’ll post the full list in a couple […]
“Vancouver has too many cheerleading critics . . .”
The good people over at The Next Stage theatre blog have conducted and posted a wonderful interview with Vancouver-based theatre critic Colin Thomas (Georgia Straight). There’s even a choice piece of Toronto bashing as told to Colin by Daniel MacIvor: “Daniel MacIvor told me once that he likes premiering work in Vancouver because audiences here […]
Wallace Shawn finishes the play it took him 10 years to write
Inconceivable! Shawn’s new play Grasses of a Thousand Colors is finally finished. Read the American Theatre interview with him here. And then Time Out New York theatre critic David Cote reflects on the news here.
10 questions remixed: Anger
Ryan McMahon 1) How much of your work is informed by a sense of anger?All of it. Every last consonant and mother-fucking vowel bleeds anger. Every shitty fucking sound cue and half-assed piece of shit lighting change in my shows are chosen while very angry. All the fucking posters and handbills and shitty little websites […]
What should we talk about now?
Any suggestions?
Marshall McLuhan has a good idea
The medium is to the message as theatre is to ______________.
March round-up
A few selections from our March posts: Free arts marketing book! 10 questions: Greatest hits – Volume V A little piece of Toronto theatre history Tarragon Theatre announces new season What is theatre good for? The value of theatre? Wow! Has evil triumphed in our time? Free theatre Public Relations guide Performance artists Tanya Mars […]
Icelandic theatre?
Time Out New York theatre critic David Cote has posted a sneak peak of his upcoming feature for Theatre magazine – a piece on Iceland’s burgeoning theatre scene. A sample: “So the country is stable, affluent and educated. There is a healthy theatergoing culture, but a self-sustaining experimental scene still needs to be nurtured. Iceland […]
Performance artist Tanya Mars wins Governor General’s Award
Tanya Mars is awesome – and now she’s been awarded the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts. Read the story in today’s Toronto Star, here.
Out and about
Actor/Director Hume Baugh (The Girl in the Picture Tries to Hang Up the Phone, Child Hood) wasn’t happy to see photographers while leaving this house on Toronto’s trendy Queen Street East. His production of All’s Well That Ends Well opens March 26, 2008 at Alchemy Theatre. Spotted any hot theatre talent out and aboutin your […]
Tarragon Theatre announces new season
Lots of exciting-looking work on tap for Tarragon’s 2008-2009 season. Check it out here.
Out and about
Eric Peterson (Necessary Angel’s Half Life, TV’s Corner Gas) and Caroline Gillis (Tarragon’s How It Works, da da kamera’s A Beautiful View) outside the Capitol Event Theatre before Necessary Angel’s 3 Plays/1 Day Gala. (Thanks to Daniel MacIvor for the photo.) Spotted any hot theatre talent out and aboutin your neighbourhood?Send us your starstruck theatre […]
February round-up
A few selections from our February posts: Has Canadian theatre lost the plot Praxis Theatre fundraiser photos Build Your Own Theatre – Part II Theatre school in the age of compliance – by Scott Walters How theatre failed America Pretty tough – a new play by Brendan Gall
Free arts marketing book!
Back in 2003, Nicky Nicolaou and the Arts Council of New Zealand put together an incredible manual on arts marketing called Smart Arts: Marketing the arts in New Zealand. The blurb on the back of the book says: “Inspire the public with your passion for the work. You know how much they’ll enjoy it so […]