About 80 theatre folk in DC are getting together to discuss the TDF's much-discussed study Outrageous Fortune, the Like and Times of the New American Play (that thing that everyone's been talking about) with the project's leads; Todd London and Victoria Bailey. This presentation will be followed by a Q & A, which will be… Continue reading Streaming discussion and talkback of Outrageous Fortune tomorrow at #newplay
Category: theatre
The Southern Mothers make me happy
New York's (by way of Chicago) Southern Mothers (the cats that brought us the Steppenwolf love poem Tracy Letts a few years ago) drop Round 2 on their favourite actor, pimp and playwright... H/T Monica at Fragments
Stella Adler clears up any confusion
Heading for home
End of the year guest post: The return of Ian Mackenzie
Ian Mackenzie is the marketing director of Toronto's Praxis Theatre, and has been a trailblazer in the theatre corner of the blogoshpere for over 2 years at the Praxis blog Theatre is Territory.
Talking Point
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement. Edward Albee
Theatre adventures
Guest blogger Jessica Van der Veen on her recent trip to Europe and bumping into a Canadian legend. I haven’t told you a whole lot about our adventures in the theatre. There weren’t any shows in Paris that I wanted to see, and my French isn’t up to snuff for literary theatre anyway. In Berlin… Continue reading Theatre adventures
Looking to the next generation for the survival of theatre
Further to the post the other day on his question "what have you done to save theatre today", Travis from Midnight Honesty at Noon dropped this link in the comments, please give it a read. (Great man, that Travis Bedard, and if you're not reading MH@N you should be.) It's a letter sent to Mike… Continue reading Looking to the next generation for the survival of theatre
A Posthumous Letter to Sarah Kane
Dear Sarah, I've been meaning to write you for some time now, as you've been on my thoughts quite a bit lately. Pretty much every day, actually. You'll forgive me if that sounds a bit creepy, please allow me to explain. I write a blog, you see. A theatre blog to be precise, and I'm… Continue reading A Posthumous Letter to Sarah Kane
Well, that was fun. What’s next?
And so the (finally) sunny West Coast bids a fond adieu to Mag North (or 'Canada's National Festival of Contemporary Canadian Theatre in English' for long. Canafestconcanatheng? Seriously guys, nothing snappier jumps to mind?). Traditionally with me the close of a run portends a short bout of postpartum, so I suppose I'll be dealing with… Continue reading Well, that was fun. What’s next?
Fringe Marketing
With Mag North behind us, our festival thoughts turn towards the country's un-juried festival circuit: the Fringe is on its way. We'll be taking a look at Canada's other Fringes in anticipation of our own on in September, and looking for some advance on shows to watch out for. The Montreal Fringe is in full… Continue reading Fringe Marketing
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
The Art of the Business, Part 4 – Repeat After Me: “Facebook is my Friend”
For a downloadable or streaming audio podcast of this article, click here. You could not possibly be a bigger holdout than I was with Facebook. I resisted joining for a really long time. I thought “why do I need yet another time-waster when I’m online? I already check my email obsessively, do I need to… Continue reading The Art of the Business, Part 4 – Repeat After Me: “Facebook is my Friend”
This One Goes to Eleven: Cynnamon Schreinert
Certainly one of the hardest working women in Vancouver show business, Cynnamon is an actor/photographer/writer/publicist, whose boutique PR and communications agency C.L. Schreinert & Associates devotes an enormous amount of their client load to the local theatre scene. In amongst many others, she has handled publicity for Bard on the Beach and the Van Fringe.… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Cynnamon Schreinert
Time Flies When You’re Having Fun
One Year In. Wow. It's been an entire year since The Next Stage made its first entrance. Glancing back over the first post from that day I'm pleased to realize that not much has changed with regards to my mission statement, and I have to say how proud I am to have discovered so many… Continue reading Time Flies When You’re Having Fun
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