1) What the fuck is going on? life in 3s. I turn 30 in december. I have a 3-year-old son. I have my 3rd book (rivers and other blackness between us) coming out before my birthday. finishing up a trilogy of plays (3 faces of mudgu sankofa – last play is a commission from soulpepper, […]
Author: Ian Mackenzie
What the fuck is going on?
The tyranny of questionsBy Ian Mackenzie On this Friday, November 23, we will publish here the 50th in our “10 questions” interview series. That’s 500 questions and 500 responses from 50 of North America’s finest contemporary theatre makers. Since starting this project back in October, 2006, I’ve often thought that when we got here, to […]
SUPERnatural in Toronto
A new workshop production written byMichael Wheeler and the Toronto Youth Theatre senior cast. Directed by Michael Wheeler. Click here for tickets and more info.
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. […]
Opens today in Toronto
At Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre.Click through for more info and box office.
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: Allan Teichman
1) What the fuck is going on? Life. 2) How did you make the transition from being a Stage Manager at the Shaw Festival to being the President of the Canadian Actors’ Equity Association (CAEA)? I haven’t. I’m still a Stage Manager at the Shaw Festival. Being President is not a paid position in the […]
Chicago playwright Rob Kozlowski is funny as hell
Want proof? Read his blog post on theatre’s Donation season – a scathing and hilarious “how-to” guide for setting up your theatre company’s donor program. A sample: “In the donor list you eventually publish in some manner, just stick a couple of Anonymouses in the list, especially in the higher tiers, just to impress people […]
Who should get the $100,000 Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts?
The good people at the TAPA blog are spreading the word about the Ontario-based Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. Good idea! Here are the grants on offer: Artist Award: One recipient will receive a prize of $35,000. The recipient will nominate a promising new or emerging talent in the same field. The new […]
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. […]
10 questions: Charles Nolte
1) What the fuck is going on? What the fuck is going on? Everything and nothing. The Royal Shakespeare from Stratford is in town giving us The Seagull and King Lear in repertory at the Guthrie. What the fuck does Trevor Nunn think he’s doing, casting Nina with a novice who plays Nina as a […]
80 years of theatre-y goodness!
The Toronto Star today reports the 40th birthdays of two great local theatres: Theatre Passe Muraille and Théâtre français de Toronto. We are at once envious and proud. Happy birthdays!
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 […]