The Art of the Business, Part 3 – Touchpoints

For a downloadable or streaming audio podcast of this article, click here. This month’s Art of the Business deals with a term you may or may not have heard before: touchpoints. A touchpoint is any way that your consumer, or end-user, comes in contact with your work. It could be a webpage, an e-newsletter, a [...]

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Local Stage and Screen Icon in Dire Need of Your Help

Babz Chula, beloved Grande Dame of West Coast stage and screen, has been fighting an ongoing battle with cancer for years, and has suddenly taken a turn for the worse. Dubbed “the Queen of the Indies”, Babz grew up and started her career in New York, and has been a fixture in the Vancouver independent [...]

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The Job

The casting agent truck pulled up next…

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Hot Stepsister

From Graeme Stewart at Blog TO: Spare a thought, if you will, for poor, poor theatre. In this age of long-form television, blockbuster films and digital doo-daddery, live theatre tends to get a little overlooked. It’s kinda like the Cinderalla [sic] of human narrative. Hardworking, honest, and totally hot. Problem is, she’s being oppressed by [...]

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The School of Hard Knocks Reunion

There’s a viral meme floating around the theatrenet asking us to speak about some lessons we’ve been taught the hard way, and then to pass it on to three others. This is a fine and worthy exercise, as those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it, so I will proudly throw my hat [...]

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Wanted: Theatre Artists for Civic Action

Victoria-based acting teacher turned governmental watchdog Jessica Van der Veen is looking for a few good theatreists to help out with an upcoming action at the BC Legislature next month. On Monday, April 7 there will be a rally drawing awareness to the issue of the closing down and selling off of public school lands [...]

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Talking Point

We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets. -Howard Barker 

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The Value of Theatre, Summarized

Yesterday’s theatrenet roundtable on the value of theatre was the best and most vigorous use of this form of discussion that I’ve seen yet. Well done, Slay, and thanks. We should be doing this once a month. Maybe take turns throwing out the month’s topic? For those of you who missed it or are new [...]

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How is Theatre Valuable?

Matt over at the theatrenet’s one-stop shopping emporium Theatreforte and some friends are spending today blogging about the essential question concerning our corner of the art world: What is the value of theatre? This, I feel, is an outstanding topic for discussion, as the one thing the blogs in our galaxy can agree upon is [...]

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Luckily for us, Red Light Winter held over until March 22.

This is not a review. We’re not doing those right now (although we might start down the road a bit). This is a gush. This is a love letter to playwright Adam Rapp, and a fan letter to the cast and production team that make up the Speckled Bird Equity Co-op. This is one of [...]

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This One Goes to Eleven: Cynnamon Schreinert

Certainly one of the hardest working women in Vancouver show business, Cynnamon is an actor/photographer/writer/publicist, whose boutique PR and communications agency C.L. Schreinert & Associates devotes an enormous amount of their client load to the local theatre scene. In amongst many others, she has handled publicity for Bard on the Beach and the Van Fringe. [...]

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Time Flies When You’re Having Fun

One Year In. Wow. It’s been an entire year since The Next Stage made its first entrance. Glancing back over the first post from that day I’m pleased to realize that not much has changed with regards to my mission statement, and I have to say how proud I am to have discovered so many [...]

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