This one goes to eleven: Paul Armstrong

Ladies and gentlemen, a man who needs no introduction to a very large hunk of Vancouver: Mr. Paul Armstrong, Producer-at-large. An omnipresent entity throughout our independent arts scene, Paul glides between the worlds of film, music and theatre with seemingly no friction. His indie-film showcase The Celluloid Social Club has been running monthly since 1997, [...]

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A fitting tribute…

Bravo, Perth, bravo.

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The Art of the Business Part 7: Welcome to the Blogosphere

To listen to the interview in its entirety, click here. (27 minutes) If you are reading this, you already have at least a handshake acquaintance with blogging (given that it’s published on a blog and all). This month, I delve into the basics of blogging, with the help of the authors of Blogging for Dummies, [...]

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Hamlet

Hamlet by Harry Venning – 1989, Week 14

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New Video Listing: Metamorphoses

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Loving the hate: seeing the benefit in backlash

While we’re on the topic of backlash, there’s a play that has made the ‘best of fest‘ at the just-wrapped Winnipeg Fringe (click here for reviews) that’s got people talking about how we as artists handle negative response to our work. Keir Cutler is a seasoned Fringe writer and performer, whose last work Teaching As [...]

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Muxin’ things up a bit

Just wanted to point out that The Next Stage now features a soundtrack that you can activate from the sidebar. Through the wonders of Muxtape we bring you a fresh new selection every week of the tunes we’re listening to for inspiration, carefully engineered to perfectly accompany each section of the blog that you’re reading [...]

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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 [...]

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Looking to the next generation for the survival of theatre

Further to the post the other day on his question “what have you done to save theatre today”, Travis from Midnight Honesty at Noon dropped this link in the comments, please give it a read. (Great man, that Travis Bedard, and if you’re not reading MH@N you should be.) It’s a letter sent to Mike [...]

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This One Goes to Eleven: Sebastien Archibald

Sebastien is a playwright/actor/director straight outta the theatre program at UVic, and is spinning his BA in theatre into his own company; ITSAZOO, where he resides as one of their four artistic directors. His well-received play Grimm Tales, a site-specific contemporizing of the works of the Brothers Grimm, is running in Victoria now and hits [...]

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“What have you done to save theatre today?”

Responding to a recent Theatre is Territory question about asking questions, Austin theatre artist and blogger Travis Bedard poses an essential one of his own, and states: We want to do Our Thing and be done. We want to be specialists in a shrinking anachronistic craft. We don’t get the choice to not be evangelists. [...]

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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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Hamlet

Hamlet by Harry Venning – Week 6, 1989

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Towards a sticky theatre

I got myself into a spirited debate the other day. Nadine is an ensemble member in my company who works with us here in Vancouver but actually lives in New York, and she’s great to debate with because she has an East Coast defiance and a stubborness that rivals my own, so she can toss [...]

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New Video Listing – Grimm Tales

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