Spinning off….

Well, it is with excitement, trepidation and a big, deep breath that I make this announcement: I am spinning off my own blog. The Art of the Business, which has, for the past 9 months been incubating on The Next Stage, is launching out on its own over at www.artof the biz.com. Once upon a [...]

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Vancouver Wrecking Ball participant update!

Further to Monday’s post on the Vancouver edition of the upcoming Canada-wide Wrecking Ball political theatre cabaret, the Alliance for Arts and Culture have listed the complete docket of talent for the night, and it sounds phenomenal. The writers involved are Vancouver playwright Lucia Frangioni (Espresso), Canadian theatre giant Judith Thompson (The Crackwalker, Lion in [...]

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Hamlet

Hamlet by Harry Venning – 1989, Week 36

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The Wrecking Ball rolls across Canada

Toronto political theatre series The Wrecking Ball has just announced a country-wide series of brand new political theatre to support the efforts of The Department of Culture. Running all on the same day – October 6 – across Canadian cities coast to coast, the series will be comprised of staged readings of new works by [...]

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On the passing of a legend…

…and a personal hero of mine, since I began studying the craft as a young man. This is the picture that was taped to my fridge for inspiration for years as I was becoming an actor. Thank you for that, for your courage, your generosity and, most of all, thank you for the work. Rest [...]

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Vancouver theatre blog watch

I have a dream. It’s a particularly geeky dream, but nevertheless… I dream of a future where there is an open network of theatrists exchanging ideas, debating and supporting each other throughout the Greater Vancouver area, and doing it through the rather convenient medium of the internet. A sort of focusing of the existing theatre [...]

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This one goes to eleven: Diane Brown

Ruby Slippers Theatre illuminates social hypocrisy and sexual stereotypes through humour and theatrical innovation. Smart social satire is our forte, and we are leaders of this genre in our community. As Ruby Slippers heads into it’s 20 anniversary season, we check in with Artistic Director Diane Brown, a long-time visionary in the Vancouver theatre community. [...]

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Dishpig and Mr. Fox: The Final Four Farewell

by guest blogger Rebecca Coleman. Okay, first off, apologies for the liberal use of alliteration. But that stuff has been proven to get people’s attention. Except when it pisses them off. Okay! I have good news and bad news. The bad news is, we are losing Greg Landucci to Toronto. For those of you who [...]

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You are cordially invited to come party your face off with us

Stand-up! Sketch! DJ dance floor till the wee hours! The legend continues…

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The Art of the Business 9: Creating Meaningful Blog Connections

On August 10, 2008, in the wee small hours of the morning, a propane station blew up in Toronto. The video and the information was all over the internet long before it reached the mainstream media, even Television. Local blogger Lorraine Murphy, otherwise known as Raincoaster, was awake that night, and saw the first reports [...]

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New listing service alert!

Further to yesterday’s post on us indie theatrists making full use of the publicity resources available to us (on which I was quite rightly called out for my chastising tone, but honestly, I just get frustrated with the state of the union sometimes. And I’m one of the soft-spoken bloggers on the theatroshpere.), comes this [...]

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On listing with VancouverPlays.com

Dear Vancouver theatre companies with upcoming productions: Being a regular independent theatre-goer, I was just skimming the coming soon section of Jerry Wasserman’s essential theatre guide on VancouverPlays.com, and I’d like to make an observation that I hope may be of some benefit to those of you who are wisely choosing to use this service. [...]

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Vancouver premiere of Doubt opens tonight

It’s no secret amongst her students who Michèle Lonsdale Smith’s all-time favourite playwright is. Well, okay, in truth it’s probably a tie between John Patrick Shanley and Chekhov, but it’s Shanley that she hands out more of in class. Michèle heads up the Lyric School of Acting here in Vancouver, and is also the artistic [...]

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Fringe wrap-up: Is everybody satisfied?

And so, with the announcement of the 2008 Pick of the Fringe, the curtains fall on yet another Fringe season, and the overarching humor in the air seems to indicate a general feeling of success amongst its perpetrators. Just how successful was it? How do we measure the success of this festival in today’s theatrical [...]

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New on the V-list: Gabrielle Rose on Doubt

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