The Art of the Business, Part 4 – Repeat After Me: “Facebook is my Friend”

For a downloadable or streaming audio podcast of this article, click here. You could not possibly be a bigger holdout than I was with Facebook. I resisted joining for a really long time. I thought “why do I need yet another time-waster when I’m online? I already check my email obsessively, do I need to [...]

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Talking Point

People shouldn’t trust artists and they shouldn’t trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it. Tony Kushner

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I Heart Charlie Rose

This is great, because I was looking for something to fill the remaining 30 minutes I had left unscheduled in my week. I recently discovered another motherload of theatre-related discussion on the webs (thanks Benny): Charlie Rose’s official site has every interview he’s ever done since 1991- in free and easy streaming – and the [...]

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This One Goes to Eleven: Daniel Martin

A native Vancouverite, Daniel got himself a Masters Degree in Sociology in New Zealand before returning home to study acting. In 1999 he and friend David Mott co-founded the Upintheair Theatre Society and have been going strong ever since. They had a recent hit play with 120bpm, a site-specific work about Vancouver’s underground rave scene, [...]

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Talking Point

Theater is not just important—I believe it is easily the most important art form that exists. Mike Daisey

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“Okay folks, speak up.”

The following is a comment Colin Thomas posted today on his own This One Goes to Eleven interview. I’m reprinting it here not because I’m pushing people to leave more comments on my site (although we do secretly crave the validation of the comments section, us bloggers), but because I believe it to be vital [...]

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The Support Continues: Laughing for Babz!

Never let it be said that the Vancouver arts community doesn’t take care of its own. In yet another addition to the fundraising drive to facilitate Babz Chula’s urgent and progressive cancer treatments, the One Night Stand comedy night at Gastown’s Lyric School of Acting will be donating all the proceeds from this Saturday’s show [...]

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This One Goes to Eleven: Colin Thomas

I feel fairly confident in stating that no one in Vancouver experiences more of its theatre than Colin. The long-time contributing theatre editor at the Georgia Straight, his is the thumbs-up review every company publicist in town hopes for, and the thumbs-down we all fear. With a hard-earned reputation for candor tempered with an abiding [...]

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‘Where’s My Money?’ Announces Holdover for Babz

The Evolving Arts Collective’s Where’s My Money?, which has been enjoying a smash sellout run at the Beaumont Studios these last few weeks, announced today that they have added one more week to their run to help raise money for local acting maven Babz Chula’s urgently needed cancer treatments. The holdover runs from April 9-12, [...]

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Talking Point

Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed. Edward Bond

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