Rhonda has been a TV/film actor here for over a decade and decided 3 years ago to roll up her sleeves and start producing independent theatre with a vengeance. Most recently she produced and performed in Spanish Girl at the Havana. Somewhere in her busy schedule she finds time to be a freelance photographer. 1.)… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Rhonda Dent
Category: Vancouver theatre
Jazz Hams
A few months ago I was stumbling home from work at around one in the morning, tripped, and fell into this searing jam session at O'Douls, courtesy of the Jazzfest. It had been so long since I'd seen any live jazz, especially any with the chops this crew was throwing around, and I was… Continue reading Jazz Hams
This One Goes to Eleven: Ellie O’Day
Vancouver indie theatre, allow me to introduce you to Ellie O'Day, super-publicist. The reason you want to keep making money is so that you can one day hire her so you can work less and make lots 'n lots more money. She began her career here in the '70s as Western Canada's first female rock… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Ellie O’Day
This One Only Goes to Ten
If this were the Buffyverse and not the blogosphere, then the Vampire that sired my This One Goes to Eleven interview series would be Ian Mackenzie and his Ten Questions. Ian has asked me to put my money where my fangs are and submit to a little blood-letting myself. Click here to read the gory… Continue reading This One Only Goes to Ten
This One Goes to Eleven: David Benedict Brown
David finished theatre studies at Douglas College and kept his education rolling by forming Enlightenment Theatre, which launched with Collage: Homage to Kurt Schwitters at Studio 16 in December 2006. Their second effort, Zastrozzi, The Master of Discipline, just wrapped at the waterfront theatre, which David produced, acted in, and provided lighting design. He was… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: David Benedict Brown
This One Goes to Eleven: Ryan Crocker
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
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…
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
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
Simon Ogden 