Vancouver-based theatre blogger and playwright Simon Ogden (The Blogtender) gets the Umbrella Talk interview treatment over at MK Piatkowski’s One Big Umbrella blog. A sample: “I have a dream about Black Box theatres dotting our communities like convenience stores (convenience theatres?), each of them telling their own stories. As theatre grows again into a common […]
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The passion of the blogs
A look back on a good year in the theatrosphere By Simon Ogden and Ian Mackenzie Time to put 2008 to bed? Good idea. But not before we take one last look at the year that was in theatre blogging. And what a year it was! From epic online dust-ups to Internet-wide collaborations, here’s our […]
Everything I know about theatre today I learned from blogging
Image courtesy of Katy’s Non-Profit Marketing Blog Branding the independentsBy Simon Ogden When I started my theatre blog in March of 2007, I had no idea there were other theatre bloggers out there, much less an organism called the theatrosphere. For real. It honestly didn’t occur to me. I had only just found out what […]
A magazine about talking about new theatre
Lots of great writing going on over at Simon Ogden’s Vancouver-based The Next Stage theatre blog. Recent posts include: Female playwrights wanted The Art of the Business, Part 5: Staking out your Spot on the Web Critics are your friends. Meet your new friends Plus interviews with Vancouver theatre scenesters Michael Scholar Jr. and David […]
“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 […]
New Vancouver theatre
If you’re in Vancouver this weekend . . .Click here for more info on this play.
A wake up call for the West
Vancouver-based playwright and theatre blogger Simon Ogden has thrown down an inspiring call to action for the “latent theatre town” he calls home: “. . . we keep plugging away, show after show, using the same marketing tactics and theatres and programs and street cards and posters and fundraisers . . . and theatre doesn’t […]
10 questions: Simon Ogden
1) What the fuck is going on?Oh, left work early to ride my bike to the farmers’ market to buy organic heirloom tomatoes and an amusing pinot on the way to the beach to smoke some hydro and debate olympic spending vs. the homeless “problem”. You know, Vancouvery shit. 2) What’s the current state of […]
11 questions: Ian Mackenzie
Praxis Theatre’s Director of Marketing and resident “10 questions” asker had the tables turned on him recently – fielding a series of theatre-related questions from Vancouver-based playwright Simon Ogden. Click here to read the interview at Ogden’s The Next Stage theatre blog.