At last! A call to arms!

Ah, the long, languid days of summer. The West Coast has settled into the torpor of a brain-mush inducing heatwave and everything seems, well…West Coastey. I do anyway, with my crew in recess for the summer and that pre-Fringe dip in Indie Stage activity I’ve been feeling like a kid on summer vacation. That should [...]

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This One Goes to Eleven: Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg

Tara is a theatrical force of nature, busy hammering out a viable niche for dance-theatre in Vancouver. She’s been dancing since the age of 3, went to ballet school and theatre school, and earned a degree in dance from Simon Fraser University. She worked with Green Thumb Theatre as a dance/actor. She is now the [...]

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This One Goes to Eleven: Max Reimer

A native Vancouverite, Max returns to the West Coast from a 12-year stint as the Artistic Director of Hamilton’s Theatre Aquarius to take on the newly created role of the Playhouse’s Artistic Managing Director, a hybrid of two previous administrative tent poles. He will rely on his varied history as a theatre artist – as [...]

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Actor wanted for Fringe play

Casting Call Shotgun: A 45-minute comedy for the Vancouver Fringe Festival seeks a male actor (late 20′s-late 30′s) The play is based on the experiences of four teachers in a carpool. Performance Location/dates: Pacific Theatre (Sept. 11–20th, 2009) Rehearsal dates:  July/August, evenings & some weekends (specific schedule TBD by cast) Jody Parasiers & Kari Marken [...]

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Fixing theatre, one tweet at a time

Random tweet from Rebecca on Tuesday morning: Off to have breakfast with @cynnamons. Vancouver theatre publicists unite! To which I responded with a flippant: @rebeccacoleman @cynnamons Hi girls! If you figure out how to fix #theatre today, let me know? To which Travis responded with a considered: @thenextstagemag Give a leading indie company in each [...]

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Determining the industry’s blood type

I’m a total Robert Lepage fanboy. Case in point; last year while the rest of the 17-men stag party I was with in Vegas started the night with a UFC fight, I suffered their slings and arrows and tucked myself into a middle seat at Lepage’s Cirque installation Ka, alone with a box of popcorn [...]

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Who says there’s no great heartbreaking roles out there?

Looking to diversify your role base? Like making children cry? Apparently, if you’re an actor having trouble finding work you’re just not looking hard enough. There’s some money parts waiting for you if you comb through Craigslist. From the Washington DC edition: My deceased aunt gave my two kids a Cocker Spaniel a few months [...]

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The battle of artist vs. state

The following is a guest post by Toronto Theatre Artist, Photographer and Fringe staffer Amanda Lynne Ballard, first published in the Fringe Harold newsletter. From the Texan Bill 2649 attack on lighting designers in May to the recent UK Equity attempt to implement mandatory minimum wage payment on all working actors to Canada’s Equity contracts [...]

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Heading for home

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“Hey. Actors. Suck it up.”

This post has been a long time coming. It’s one I really wanted to write a few weeks ago, but I was so mad, so red-faced incensed at the time that I couldn’t dare sit down at the computer and spit out the vitriol I was gargling with. So I waited to cool down. Which [...]

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