10 questions: Chris Abraham

1) What the fuck is going on?I have no idea, I’m too busy rehearsing. 2) Why is Crow’s Theatre’s upcoming play called Eternal Hydra?It is the title of a lost manuscript by a lesser known modernist named Gordias Carbunkle. 3) Does the play arrive at any conclusions about the nature of recorded human history?It does […]

The Rice Report returns

Good newsPraxis Theatre Co-Artistic Director Simon Rice has resurrected his widely beloved U.S. politics journal The Rice Report. A Rice Report primerThe Rice Report started back in 2004 – a reaction to Simon’s growing distress with the state of American politics and its questionable foreign policies. His Rice Report newsletter series used the 2004 U.S. […]

Out and about

Donna-Michelle St. Bernard and Catherine Hernandez(both of Native Earth Performing Arts)seen here leaving their offices in Toronto’s Distillery District. The pair were seen later in the day shopping atToronto’s upscale MarieJosette wearable art boutique. Spotted any hot theatre talent out and aboutin your neighbourhood?Send us your starstruck theatre photos:celebrity@praxistheatre.com

10 questions: David Oiye

1) What the fuck is going on?So much is going on that it’s hard to know where to begin. ArtHouse Cabaret just closed and in three days we’ve turned around the space to put up Hysteria, Canada’s largest multi-disciplinary festival of women’s work. Our Queer Youth Program is going gangbusters. And we’re reading Rhubarb submissions. […]

One for the lighting designers

Here’s a great blog dedicated to the art of stage lighting: On Stage Lighting. “The site hopes to stimulate thoughts and debate about many aspects of: Stage LightingLighting Basics and Principles. Lighting DesignFrom learning lighting design to what current stage Lighting Designers are doing. Stage Lighting EquipmentInformation on equipment use, technical considerations and best practice. […]

The new Gypsy Roar

The Hamilton-based theatre blog Gypsy Roar has relocated – with a clean new look, a bold new logo and an inspired new mandate: “Essentially I want to document my journey as a foreigner in a land I have no knowledge of, starting a theatre company with what I know and what I have, and see […]