Honestly…

I’m linking to this interview with Dave Tompa purely out of an interest in promoting Toronto indie theatre. Really.

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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 [...]

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Proud Poppa…

dyad: (n.) [dahy-ad]: 1.) two items of the same kind. 2.) two persons involved in an ongoing relationship or interaction. 3.) the relationship or interaction itself. For the record, this is the single greatest feeling in the world for a playwright.    

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Coma-Chamaeleon

…and then Mr. Walters goes ahead and discusses the issue himself, eloquently.

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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 [...]

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