A welcome to The Room

A great company web site. Somewhere on it you’ll find a set of posted rules. The first rule is: In the room, things are being made. The fourth rule is: In The Room no one can say for sure what these things will be until they are done, because making things is a kind of [...]

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This One Goes to Eleven: Sally Stubbs

Sally is an award-winning playwright and teacher-director of theatre with, by and for young people and a performer who loves to clown. She is completing a graduate degree in writing at the University of Victoria with master playwright Joan MacLeod. Hers is a strong local voice, and a proud addition to the interview series. 1. [...]

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Kick-starting your Social Marketing program

A year and a half ago I met a firecracker of a theatre publicist. Her name was Rebecca Coleman. Still is, actually. She was, at the time, busy making a name for herself in the independent arts scene here in Vancouver. A trained actor, a theatre geek, and a single mom, she was springboarding off [...]

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Advice to the playwright from Malachy Walsh

Recently American playwright and blogger Adam Szymkowicz decided to devote his blog to the interviewing of playwrights, which he has been doing at a rather relentless rate. They’re wonderful and chock full o’ inspiration, if you’re into wonderful and inspiring things. Check them out when you’ve got the time. A lot of the young series [...]

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Family bonding at the Jessies

I know there’s an argument that some make about awards shows like the Jessies. They hold that it’s wrong to pit artists against one another, that saying this actor ‘beat’ that actor, and that this company is ‘better’ than that company etc, etc diminishes us all. They say that competition has no place in the [...]

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2009 Vancouver New Play Festival ends Saturday!

The Playwrights Theatre Centre‘s annual new works festival is in full swing, with 3 days of staged readings left in the line-up: Thursday June 11 – Stroke by Marie Leofeli Barlizo, director: Martin Kinch A Filipino-Canadian family wrestles with its  past when a traumatic event stirs up family secrets. A father and daughter, connected by [...]

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A how not-to guide to publicity photos

I stumbled across this little gem of a blog yesterday, and put out a twitter link to it that instantly became my most wide-spread Re-tweet to date. It’s an aggregation of the very worst in theatre production stills culled from the wilds of the internets, and manages to be heart-wrenchingly sad and murderously funny all [...]

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This One Goes to Eleven: Anna Cummer

Anna is the very model of the modern Vancouver working actress. Born in Singapore and raised between Southeast Asia and Saskatoon, she graduated high school in Hong Kong and went on to earn two theatre degrees in England. She now lives and works tirelessly here in Vancouver in TV, film and theatre. On stage she [...]

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The most awesome marketing metaphor ever

Direct from the incomparable Seth Godin… From Seth’s post: My favorite part happens just before the first minute mark. That’s when guy #3 joins the group. Before him, it was just a crazy dancing guy and then maybe one other crazy guy. But it’s guy #3 who made it a movement. Initiators are rare indeed, [...]

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Open up and let them in

Do you know why theatre rocks? Of course you do, you’ve found your way to a theatre blog on the overwhelmingly crowded internet. Whatever that answer is to you is the greatest marketing tool you’ve got. All you’ve got to do is spread that reason all over town. Why do I think theatre rocks? Accessibility. [...]

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