Greetings and Salutations, gentle reader, a most Happy New Year to you, one and all. May 2010 be a year of renewal and growth, and prosperity. Nowhere to go but up, right? 2009 will surely be remembered as the year we were forced to defend ourselves as contributing citizens by our own government. Which made… Continue reading Looking ahead to 2010: fired up and ready to go
Tag: praxis theatre
Blog this, Canada! A theatrospherical State of the Union – Round 3
This is the continuation of a conversation on the Canadian theatrosphere started by Michael Wheeler from Praxis Theatre in Toronto. Read Round 1 here, Round 2 here, and Round 2.5: a Kris Joseph Intermezzo here. It always amazes me that the people who should be pioneers in this new media landscape are the ones bashing… Continue reading Blog this, Canada! A theatrospherical State of the Union – Round 3
Blog this, Canada: a theatrospherical State of the Union – Kris Joseph Intermezzo
I'll be posting the next round of the cross-country back-and-forth between us and Praxis Theatre soon, for now there's a comment on the last entry left by Ottawa actor/blogger/bon vivante Kris Joseph that demands its own post. Because it manages to be hilarious and bang-on topic simultaneously. For you consideration: I certainly don’t mean to… Continue reading Blog this, Canada: a theatrospherical State of the Union – Kris Joseph Intermezzo
Blog this, Canada: a theatrospherical State of the Union
Guest Post by Michael Wheeler of Toronto's Praxis Theatre - first in a series... Simon Ogden and I are thoroughly 21st Century collaborators: I have directed one of Simon’s plays (twice), submitted another of his plays to SummerWorks (unsuccessfully), and we run parallel blogs in Toronto and Vancouver that have collaborated from early in their… Continue reading Blog this, Canada: a theatrospherical State of the Union
Selling at the fringes
A new approach to theatre marketing from a Canadian sellout By guest blogger Ian Mackenzie I cringe when I hear theatre people say the word “marketing.” It’s like when you hear your grandma say “Facebook” – you know she’s heard of it, but you can be damn sure she’s got no idea how to use it. I… Continue reading Selling at the fringes
…any questions?
"The revolution in theatre needs to happen at the business end of the stick: an army of Arts Admin rebels so furious with the injustice of the current creaking theatre apparatus that they lead the march to a new model. A model that empowers artists to ask the kinds of questions we need artists to… Continue reading …any questions?
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
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