This One Goes to Eleven: Katrina Dunn

If you want an example of absolute commitment to our theatre, look no further than Katrina Dunn, who has been on the front lines of the fight to bring great Canadian theatre to Vancouverites for many years. She’s been the Artistic Director of Touchstone Theatre and its all-Canadian mandate since 1997, and was one of [...]

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New Feature Alert – Video Listings Now Available

Marketing a play? Looking for some exposure? The Next Stage is pleased to offer a new section of video listings, free for a limited time to Victoria independent theatre companies. Features of your listing include: all your production and contact information, a brief write-up or synopsis of the play itself, embedded links to your company [...]

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The Art of the Business, Part 2 – Putting a Value on our Work

For a downloadable or streaming audio podcast of this article, click here. Okay, I know what you’re thinking: this is a column that is supposed to be dedicated to tips and tricks about marketing artists, right? So what the heck is this whole “putting a value on our work” thing? Because, my friend, you have [...]

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A Proud Day for Canadian Theatre

It is now T-minus 30 days until World Theatre Day and counting. The WTD organizing committee, the International Theatre Institute, has officially announced the author of this year’s international theatre message (drum roll please): Canadian icon and contemporary theatre revolutionary Robert Lepage. The ITI is an world-wide non-governmental agency founded by UNESCO in 1948. On [...]

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This One Goes to Eleven: Susan Stevenson

A lot of time is spent on this site and its interview series discussing the many potential ways that the theatre business in Vancouver may be improved. Lest this offer the impression that our theatre has a foot in the grave we present a conversation with Susan Stevenson. Susan is the Executive Director of the [...]

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For Theatre Nerds Only

Why did no one tell me about this? Sometimes the murky depths of the internet yield up some astonishing treasures, like this internet radio station devoted to all things New York theatre. Playbill Radio features daily features like Playbill Presents: “Playbill Radio takes its microphones backstage and into the rehearsal rooms of Broadway for “Playbill [...]

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This One Goes to Eleven: Jessica Van der Veen

Hi. My name is Simon, and I’m a playwright, actor, and working theatre artist. I can claim all of these things to be fact today because of Jess. Hers was the very first acting class I was dragged to, by a doorman at some club I was flipping bottles in at the time, 15 years [...]

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Devoted and Disgruntled: A Journey Through “Open Space”.

Ian Mackenzie over at Theatre is Territory will occasionally drop a post entitled What should we talk about now?, a call to discourse that, in my opinion at least, neatly sums up the need we all have as theatre artists to develop a common language towards breaking down the barriers between us and our dream [...]

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Independents the Future of Canadian Theatre?

“The Canadian Stage Company, which has a stated aim to create and produce the best in Canadian theatre, will not produce any Canadian work on its mainstage next season, industry sources say.” – From the Toronto Star. Yet another questionable decision by “Canada’s largest not-for-profit contemporary theatre company”. Not only is there no indication of [...]

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