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 […]
Tag: The Next Stage
10 things I learned about theatre in 2008
When in doubt, make a numbered list. That’s at least part of the thinking behind Praxis Theatre Director of Marketing Ian Mackenzie’s recent guest post at The Next Stage theatre blog: 10 things I learned about theatre in 2008. Quasi-cantakerous, painfully obvious, or productively blunt?You decide. Please check out the full list of 10 at […]
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 […]
Nestruck on national theatre
Lots of great guest posting going on over at Simon Ogden’s The Next Stage theatre blog. (Simon is in Beijing for the Olympics.) Today, Globe and Mail national theatre critic J. Kelly Nestruck (what does the “J” stand for anyway?) steps up with Hello Vancouver: “Given the vastness of our country, is there even such […]
Selling out
Vancouver-based theatre blogger and playwright Simon Ogden is in Beijing for the summer Olympics. In his absence, he has graciously invited a few other writers to guest post at his blog. Among them is Praxis Theatre’s Director of Marketing and resident blogger Ian Mackenzie, with his offering: Selling at the fringes – a new approach […]
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 […]