Curator Jim Ramsay presents an art exhibit billed as "a play in 24 acts" at the Elissa Cristall Gallery at 2245 Granville. The show runs until June 15, and the opening reception is this Friday, May 23 from 6-10 pm. A collaboration of 24 artists from Vancouver, Toronto, London, Staten Island, Boston, Seattle, Palm Springs,… Continue reading “Town Without Pity” Opens Friday
Author: Simon Ogden
A Concordance of Conditions
From the twenty-five first This One Goes to Eleven interviews: In one word, describe your present condition. Anxious Buzzing Charged Conscious Driven Growing Happy & Content Hectic Hopeful Hypoglycemic Inspired Muddled Next No Comment Optimistic Organized Chaos Poised Potent Recharging Recovering Searching Seated Simmering Uninhabited Up, Down and All Around
Magnetic North Theatre Festival is looking for Drivers (and other volunteers).
From the Magnetic North Festival Office: This national cultural event needs volunteers right away, and throughout the festival’s run from June 4th to June 14th. Volunteer opportunities include: Drivers / Dispatch (Transportation) Ushers Information Kiosk Attendants Box Office Attendants Hospitality / Food Service Attendants Brochure / poster distribution Volunteer benefits include: Direct involvement in Canada’s… Continue reading Magnetic North Theatre Festival is looking for Drivers (and other volunteers).
How Stephen Harper Made me Join Facebook
As any one of my real life, non-cyberspace, corporeal friends will attest, I'm a Facebook hater. Mostly because I'm a stubborn, reactive cuss and when people, especially large groups of people reeking of trendy tell me that I have to do something, it's pretty much a guarantee that I'm going to be doing anything but.… Continue reading How Stephen Harper Made me Join Facebook
Can you chew gum and sell it at the same time?
So, for those readers who've never used a blogging platform before, what you get amongst the site-visit statistics that these programs track for you is a transcription of the exact search engine terms that your visitors type into google or dogpile or whatever that led them to your blog. Yes, it's a little big brothery,… Continue reading Can you chew gum and sell it at the same time?
This One Goes to Eleven: Aaron Bushkowsky
If you're a young writer looking for a career high-water mark to aspire to, you don't have to look much further than Aaron Bushkowsky. A remarkably prolific poetry and prose author in addition to his non-stop playwrighting, he's already received two Jessie awards and seen his plays consistently produced across the country. He has been… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Aaron Bushkowsky
Mag North – More Than Just a Bunch of Plays
22 days and counting until the opening of Magnetic North...stoked yet? I is, and not just on the work. There's a whack of peripheral events that come bundled with the Festival, have a browse to see if anything tickles your fancy... Magnetic Encounters...these are essentially opportunities for audience members to meet with the artists outside… Continue reading Mag North – More Than Just a Bunch of Plays
Firth Things First
Stopped by Vancouver's only Entertainment Industry Exclusive bookstore Biz Books - otherwise know as Simon's Happy Place (their May Play Sale is on now, click it here for all the deets) - hoping to snag a copy of the newly released August: Osage County, Tracy Letts' new Pulitzer winning slice of awesomeness. I was in… Continue reading Firth Things First
Talking Point
The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name. Enid Bagnold - Playwright
Sighted: Another Vancouver Theatre Blog!
I'm not breaking any news here, but there is a palpable resistance in the theatre community here to standing on a soapbox in the middle of the town square and shouting: "Hey! Look at me! Check me out! I am the greatest thing you will ever see!" We simply don't brag enough, or talk about… Continue reading Sighted: Another Vancouver Theatre Blog!
Vancouver Prepares to Host Magnetic North
There is now but one short month between us and the resonating thud of the 2008 Magnetic North Theatre Festival landing in our backyard. It's time to clear the decks and start preparing, so we're going to be making a lot of fuss about it here at The Next Stage. This is such a cool… Continue reading Vancouver Prepares to Host Magnetic North
Talking Point
People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it. Tony Kushner
I Heart Charlie Rose
This is great, because I was looking for something to fill the remaining 30 minutes I had left unscheduled in my week. I recently discovered another motherload of theatre-related discussion on the webs (thanks Benny): Charlie Rose's official site has every interview he's ever done since 1991- in free and easy streaming - and the… Continue reading I Heart Charlie Rose
This One Goes to Eleven: Daniel Martin
A native Vancouverite, Daniel got himself a Masters Degree in Sociology in New Zealand before returning home to study acting. In 1999 he and friend David Mott co-founded the Upintheair Theatre Society and have been going strong ever since. They had a recent hit play with 120bpm, a site-specific work about Vancouver's underground rave scene,… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Daniel Martin
Talking Point
Theater is not just important—I believe it is easily the most important art form that exists. Mike Daisey
Simon Ogden 