Ontario Off Stage

by Brandon Moore, Communications Coordinator

Culture Days
Culture Days invites everyone to explore, discover and participate in arts and culture in every community across the country.  Culture Days runs September 27 to 29.  Some of our members activities that we’ve heard about include:

• An interactive play reading at Aluna Theatre in Toronto
• A poetry festival at Children’s Peace Theatre in Toronto
• An open house at Domino Theatre in Kingston
• A backstage tour at The Grand Theatre in London
• An acting workshop for 6-12 year olds at Great Canadian Theatre Company and OYP Theatre School in Ottawa
• A “backstage pass” at Mississauga Players
• Physical theatre workshops with Andy Massingham at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa
• An open house at Oshawa Little Theatre
• A backstage tour at Ottawa Little Theatre
• An art gallery at the Rose Theatre in Brampton
• An evening of Plays in Cafes at Shadowpath Theatre in Vaughan
• A backstage tour and a Sunday coffee concert at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake
• Shakespeare text classes at the Stratford Festival

(We'll update this list if we hear about more opportunities)

Unearthed at Theatre Passe Muraille

Behind The Scenes At Ontario’s Theatres

• Unearthed at Theatre Passe Muraille: What they found when they decided to spruce up their lobby
• Past members of Scarborough Music Theatre: They are looking for some past show programs to scan for their archives
• Stu Cox, flying director for Soulpepper’s production of Angels In America, was profiled in Torontoist’s I Want Your Job

Conversations

• A campaign is underway to ensure drama and dance education is part of Ontario teacher education programs: find out more on the Advocate for Drama and Dance wiki
• The arts are not in trouble—it’s the institutions that are failing: Devon Smith proposes three possible solutions arising from an Arts Dinner-vention Party
• What could theatres accomplish with Big Data?  Gwydion Suilebhan explores the question on HowlRound
• Does the arts need an Anti-Defamation League?

From The Wire

• The Playwrights Guild of Canada’s Tom Hendry Awards will be held on October 28 in Toronto

Migrations

• Patrick Gauthier is the new Festival Director of the Ottawa Fringe Festival
• John McHenry is the new Director of Marketing & Development at the Blyth Festival (PDF)

TO Toasts

• To Vinetta Strombergs, our former Professional Theatre Coordinator; her Toronto Fringe hit production of Musical Of Musicals: The Musical! will be part of the Mirvish season this December

You can also receive news from Theatre Ontario every month by email.  Our archives are online and the September issue is now available.