Ryan has the distinction of being the first theatre artist I ever met in Vancouver, back when we were both toiling away in the same crappy hotel, except that he would start the graveyard shift just as I was leaving my bar shift, and he'd finish as the sun was coming up, to spend the… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Ryan Crocker
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Gone to the Dark Side, Please Leave a Message
Damn. It finally happened. I've become what I beheld. I am now (SFX: Darth Vader theme plays), a Theatre Reviewer! 'Zwounds, can it be true, yours truly, consorting with the enemy, nay, wearing their colours? What's up with that? Times have changed for me, it seems. I used to hate theatre critics. Actually, I used… Continue reading Gone to the Dark Side, Please Leave a Message
This One Goes to Eleven: Raul Sanchez Inglis
Raul began his career as an actor, and now writes prolifically for stage and screen. He christened the theatre at the Beaumont Studios with his brutally thrilling play In the Eyes of God, which has been recently published by Talon Books. He has directed all of his own plays, which also include For What We… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Raul Sanchez Inglis
Playwright Tip of the Day
I recently challenged my theatre company to a write-off over the summer (first rule of Playwright Club: everybody writes...). The rules are simple; write a short play, minimum 5 pages, maximum 10, on absolutely anything you want, and when we reconvene at the end of the summer we'll cast our plays from the company, open… Continue reading Playwright Tip of the Day
This One Goes to Eleven: Lori Triolo
When I get whiny over how busy I am with my theatre career, I just have to think about Lori to put things back in perspective. A native New Yorker who transplanted herself with her husband to Vancouver some 15-odd years ago, she is the Artistic Director of the Beaumont Playhouse and its resident stage… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Lori Triolo
“The Shop” Opens Soon…
This looks interesting...a new space is opening up in town that's being billed as "a meeting place for actors and other artists", that's comprised of a 1000 sq. ft. black box theatre/studio with a front area that is a "taping/meeting room as well as a lounge area meant to serve as a comfortable place for… Continue reading “The Shop” Opens Soon…
Honestly…
I'm linking to this interview with Dave Tompa purely out of an interest in promoting Toronto indie theatre. Really.
This One Goes to Eleven: Michèle Lonsdale Smith
Michèle graduated from the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in the late '80s. Since then she has devoted herself to her craft in every aspect of its forms, as actor, teacher, director, writer, and producer. She is the co-founder and artistic director of Lyric School of Acting and Lyric Stage Project, with whom she just finished… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Michèle Lonsdale Smith
This One Goes to Eleven: Ian MacKenzie
Welcome to the inaugural edition of a continuing series on The Next Stage. When I started this blog back in March my intention was to offer a glimpse behind the curtain of a neophyte theatre company mounting its first production, a chronicle of our formative period to hopefully drum up some interest and inspire conversation… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Ian MacKenzie
Papa’s Got a Brand New Blog
Are two blogs better than one? I guess I'm about to find out. I've been accepted to the writing staff of Beyond Robson, a candid street level newsblog site that must be widening its readership, as they've hired a bunch of us newbie writers over the past week. (We're actually on a probationary term, I've… Continue reading Papa’s Got a Brand New Blog
Coma-Chamaeleon
...and then Mr. Walters goes ahead and discusses the issue himself, eloquently.
Theatrical Catechism
I've been thinking about the responsibility of the theatre a lot lately. Or rather, our responsibility as theatre artists. I think I get theatre's obligation, it's to entertain and educate, and in that order, right? It's the question of what each of us owes to the medium and to its audience that's got me to… Continue reading Theatrical Catechism
Game On.
I've been spending a lot of my newly freed-up schedule lately bouncing around what is unfortunately termed the theatre "blogoshpere" (one of those jarring newly-minted tech terms that don't quite sit right in my language palate, like "lol" and "webinar" and "blog"). However, like calling a rose by any other name, the essence of the… Continue reading Game On.
All right, I’ll stop whining…
Well, that's one play in the bank, the reviews are in, the sets, props, and costumes have been returned, and the receipts have been counted. On to the next, as soon as all involved do whatever it is they do to recuperate from the physical and emotional exertions of pouring their all into such an… Continue reading All right, I’ll stop whining…
You start by not sucking…
Week two of the run started tonight with a packed house, thank you very much. For us that is quite literally the greatest feeling in the world, for two distinct reasons; one: we need dough to cover production costs, and two: if you create a piece of art and it falls in the forest...you get… Continue reading You start by not sucking…
Simon Ogden 