A brand spankin' new indie theatre festival is in the works here in Vancouver - it's the new project of the boys at Upintheairtheatre (the Walking Fish Festival) and the heads of Left Right Minds and Machine Fair (Plank Magazine). The inaugural fest is scheduled for this July, with no venues or specific performance dates… Continue reading Name Vancouver’s new independent theatre festival
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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
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
Attention theatre makers: SummerWorks Performance Gallery call for submissions
Our good friends at the Toronto SummerWorks Festival are preparing for round 2 of their Performance Gallery (Inside the Box) initiative, opening August 6th at the Gladstone Hotel on Queen Street out in the Smoke. If you're a theatre maker interested in brief, site-specific work, this is something to look at... What would you do… Continue reading Attention theatre makers: SummerWorks Performance Gallery call for submissions
The passion of the theatre blogs
A look back on a good year in the theatrosphere By Ian Mackenzie and Simon Ogden Time to put 2008 to bed? Good idea. But not before we take one last look at the year that was in theatre blogging. And what a year it was! From epic online dust-ups to Internet-wide collaborations, here's our… Continue reading The passion of the theatre blogs
Crazy Kansas homophobe vs. Toronto theatre: and the winner is…
Photo by Roger Cullman Do we even have to say it? Despite the fact that the actual Pastor Phelps was turned back at the Canadian border, Toronto anti-protesters turned out in magnificent force to show support for The Pastor Phelps Project, a play up in the Summerworks Festival right now. Blog TO has got the… Continue reading Crazy Kansas homophobe vs. Toronto theatre: and the winner is…
Is there really such a thing as “No publicity is bad publicity”?
By guest blogger Rebecca Coleman Quite a little brou-ha-ha going on these days in T.O. The Summerworks Theatre Festival, which is an independent, juried Arts festival, is causing a big stir. Well, not the festival per se, but a show in it called The Pastor Phelps Project. Here's their media blurb: Pastor Fred Phelps and… Continue reading Is there really such a thing as “No publicity is bad publicity”?
Highlights from today’s Canadian theatrosphere
Hot day on the Great White North theatre blog tundra today (it's...alive!), a day worthy of a round-up. Check out these great posts: Pitch-hitting blogger Evan Webber over at Chris Dupuis' Time and Space sums up his TO Fringe experience. Heading into the festival with a mission to determine the answer to the question "what… Continue reading Highlights from today’s Canadian theatrosphere
Summerworks – sexin’ up Toronto theatre
Check out this ad for Toronto's Summerworks indie theatre festival. It will make you happy. It did for me, anyway...
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