Conversations with the cast – Part 2

Ladies and gentlemen: Blaine Nosworthy, cast member of Muzzle of Bees from the upcoming Gift of Screws… Click here for more behind-the-scenes footage from the production, and  to buy tickets…

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Couldn’t say it better myself

The problem with being a producer marketing a show is the feeling that everyone is kind of putting up with your patter. Like there’s a certain “of course you’re going to tell me it’s good, that’s your job” chorus playing behind the constant sales pitch of our social marketing efforts. Hopefully we’re good enough and [...]

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Lost in Translation

Charlotte (Scarlet Johansson): So what are you doing here? Bob Harris (Bill Murray): Couple of things. Taking a break from my wife, forgetting my son’s birthday and getting paid 2 million dollars to endorse a whiskey when I could be doing a play somewhere. Charlotte: Oh. Bob Harris: But the good news is the whiskey [...]

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Gift of Screw Trailer hits the nets

All right you guys, buckle up. The GoS Trailer is now live and in full effect. My thanks to the crazy talented Andrew Moxham for his craftsmanship. And away we go… As a value-added bonus, click here for a little ‘making of’ vignette…

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Tape: Held over for one more week

HOLDOVER DATES: Sept 24 – Sept 26 Thur, Fri, & Sat @ 7pm and 9pm Fri matinee @ 4pm (show length: one hour) All Tickets: $15 Call Now to Reserve: 604 671 9776 Playing at The Waldorf Hotel 1489 East Hastings (2 Blocks West of Commercial) Visit www.tapetheplay.ca for more info

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Introducing Gift of Screws

When I walked into Bill Marchant’s Ashes last year at the Firehall I had never seen one of his plays. Had no idea what class of writer he was, only what class of human being (that class being ‘first’). When I walked out of that play I knew I had found a kindred theatrical spirit, [...]

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Woo hoo! The Hive is alive!

Ohboyohboyohboyohboyohboyohboyohboy… From the Pi Theatre blog… Busy little bees, it is time to return to the HIVE: Twelve adventurous theatre companies deliver twelve distinct performances in continuous rotation. Flutter from one site-specific show to the next, with DJs, dancing and more theatrical social networking. Created and produced by Pi Theatre, Boca del Lupo, Electric Company, [...]

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BC Arts cuts in the news

Check out this linked video from Global BC on the arts cuts. It’s got legislature battles, Kim Cattrall and Carole Higgins from Carousel Theatre. It drives me mental that they’re messing with Carousel. Click the image below for the full video

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Local artists are shooting an anti-arts cuts PSA – and you can be in it

From an email sent to The Next Stage… PSA invite: please pass on to select directors, playwrights, producers, performers & Canadian celebs Dear Artists, Gordon Campbell said he would not cut funding to the arts and he did. Not only did he cut funding but now he is refusing to follow through with legally bound [...]

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2009 Vancouver Fringe patrons try to pronounce “Nggrfg”

Click here for the official Fringe site Click here for The Next Stage interview with Nggrfg director Denis Simpson

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Sneak Peak: AfterLife trailer

Fringe Favourite Jonno Katz (Last year’s The Spy and this year’s The Accident) put together this promo piece for Candy Simmons’ exceptional AfterLife. Check it out… Click here to hear Candy herself talk about the play…

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This One Goes to Eleven: Jeff Hyslop

A Vancouver native, Jeff is a Canadian gem with a packed career as a musical theatre actor, singer, dancer, choreographer, and director already behind him, and still going strong. I remember seeing Jeff years ago in the titular role in the Canadian touring production of The Phantom of the Opera, and he was most recently [...]

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Fringe Bump: AfterLife – 3 shows left!

My pick of the Fringe so far. Absolutely unmissable… Written by: Candy Simmons and Chris Van Strander Directed and Dramaturged by: Virginia Scott Performed by: Candy Simmons Venue: Playwrights Theatre Centre, Granville Island What do an Appalachian midwife, a 1950′s homemaker, and a slowly unraveling film producer have in common? Nothing…and everything. Trace the evolution [...]

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Free ticket giveaway for Good Boys and True!

Eye Heart Productions, the company behind the presentation of the Jeff Hyslop directed Good Boys and True up now at the Firehall, would like to give away a pair of tickets to a lucky reader of The Next Stage. All you have to do to win is drop a comment below answering the following skill-testing [...]

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Now that’s some tasty marketing

The cast and crew of the Fringe production Tape, happening in room 117 of the Waldorf Hotel at 1489 East Hastings Street, would like to announce that one lucky audience to one of their shows during the run – chosen completely at random – will be receiving… That is all. http://vanstage.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/fringe-bump-tape/

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