…and another Stop the Cuts PSA for your linking pleasure

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Open up and let them in, continued…

I am an artist in process. We are an industry in process. I am of the opinion that our particular industry is in its entirety process, and nothing more. And I think I’m starting to get an inkling of what that word means. My process thus far has gone something like this: discovered theatre at [...]

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“This guy is going to be a star”

Checked out Zee Zee Theatre‘s Nelly Boy at the PAL tonight in Coal Harbour. Local Playwright Dave Deveau’s new play discussing the marginalization of non-specific gender identity, it’s an intimate and language-driven work that spotlights the work of an actor about whom Colin Thomas writes in the opening line of his review: Remember the name [...]

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This One Goes to Eleven: Marci T House

Please meet the unstoppable force that is Actor Marci T House. Marci relentlessly works on her craft all over Vancouver stage, TV and film, seemingly popping up in something everywhere I turn. And she finances her habit by doing a little architecture on the side. She is onstage right now as Viney in the Playhouse [...]

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The 10th Making a Scene Conference hits Granville Island this week

This coming Thursday, October 29 marks the kick-off of the 10th Making a Scene Theatre Conference, the annual performing arts think tank hosted by the Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance. The conference has a new slogan this year: “Theatre Matters”, presumably in response to the current Liberal governments contention that it doesn’t. Indeed, many of [...]

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New BC Arts Cuts PSA

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Battery Opera re-prices remount tickets at $267.67 each

At the beginning of this year, Battery Opera sold out 40 straight shows of Artistic Producer David McIntosh’s East Side literary walkabout Lives Were Around Me. Plank Magazine’s Rachel Scott began her review thusly; Battery Opera’s production event Lives Were Around Me is an intimate and startling theatrical experience. Although I have little idea of [...]

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Stella Adler clears up any confusion

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Tom Waits on Art

Jim Jarmusch once told me fast, cheap and good…pick two. If it’s fast and cheap it won’t be good. If it’s cheap and good it won’t be fast. If it’s fast and good it won’t be cheap. Fast, cheap and good…pick two words to live by.

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Solo Collective announces new project with video promo

The Solo Collective is now in its tenth year of developing original Canadian work, bless them. Co-Artistic Directors Aaron Bushkowsky, Rachel Peake and Johnna Wright dropped the following video on their blog to announce the upcoming The Project, which opens November 4 at Performance Works. It looks like a theatrical presentation about a Hollywood company [...]

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Stop the Cuts

Click here to join the Facebook group Organizing Against Campbell’s Cuts to the Arts PSA courtesy of Jenn Griffin and Alberta Mayne

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Gift of Screws cast conversations: Steve Park

Please meet one of my very favourite humans. Steve is utterly devoted to the life and craft of acting, and I cannot wait to see him in this play, in a role that I think is probably one of the most challenging characters I have ever read off the page. In addition to being his [...]

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Dual Minds’ much-anticipated Any Night opens here next week

The dynamic duo behind Dual Minds are getting set to launch the Vancouver premiere of their new production Any Night at the new Culture Lab at the Cultch, launching its new season. Daniel Arnold and Medina Hahn are two of my absolute favourite theatre artists in town, they are wonderful actors and humans, and began [...]

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