This One Goes to Eleven: Jessie van Rijn

I am convinced that to nurture a future audience for theatre – all theatre – we need to get ‘em while they’re young. In Vancouver, this is where Carousel Theatre comes in. General Manager Jessie came to Carousel via the Chemainus Theatre Festival on Vancouver Island with a BFA in Dramatic Arts from the U [...]

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Blog this, Canada! A theatrospherical State of the Union – Round 3

This is the continuation of a conversation on the Canadian theatrosphere started by Michael Wheeler from Praxis Theatre in Toronto. Read Round 1 here, Round 2 here, and Round 2.5: a Kris Joseph Intermezzo here. It always amazes me that the people who should be pioneers in this new media landscape are the ones bashing [...]

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This One Goes to Eleven: Stephen Park

If you want to be a good actor you need to be continuously acting. This is the lesson I’ve learned over the past 4 years from watching Steve Park; as an actor in my ensemble, as a TV/film actor, and as an acting instructor at the Lyric Studios and the Vancouver Film School. Steve is [...]

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Another chance to catch Biographies of the Dead and Dying

Machinefair’s “hotly-debated” Fringe hit Biographies of the Dead and Dying is getting another kick at the cat, a remount has just been scheduled for the end of the year. If you wanted to see it and missed it (like me), you have your 2nd chance December 16-20 at the Havana. Plus the trailer is just [...]

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Blog this, Canada: a theatrospherical State of the Union – Kris Joseph Intermezzo

I’ll be posting the next round of the cross-country back-and-forth between us and Praxis Theatre soon, for now there’s a comment on the last entry left by Ottawa actor/blogger/bon vivante Kris Joseph that demands its own post. Because it manages to be hilarious and bang-on topic simultaneously. For you consideration: I certainly don’t mean to [...]

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This One Goes to Eleven: Dave Deveau

It’s always a pleasure to feature young and determined local playwrights on TOGtE. With a BFA from York and an MFA from UBC, Dave’s not just sitting around waiting for someone to stage his work. He created Zee Zee Theatre together with partner Cameron Mackenzie, and they just finished a successful run of his new [...]

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Blog this, Canada: a theatrospherical State of the Union

Guest Post by Michael Wheeler of Toronto’s Praxis Theatre – first in a series… Simon Ogden and I are thoroughly 21st Century collaborators: I have directed one of Simon’s plays (twice), submitted another of his plays to SummerWorks (unsuccessfully), and we run parallel blogs in Toronto and Vancouver that have collaborated from early in their [...]

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