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| Nancy Kenny in Roller Derby Saved My Soul Photo by Richard Gilmore Tour stops include Ottawa, London, and Toronto - but not Orlando, FL |
- So you want to do a Fringe show in the United States? Nancy Kenny is touring Roller Derby Saved My Soul across Canada this summer, but she won’t be going to the U.S.—and writes about the obstacles she encountered
- #CdnCultTimes at SpiderWebShow is a new distinctive voice about Canadian performance culture. (Albeit not really new...) Two commentaries from this week were particularly compelling reads:
- First, Christine Quintana writes about life after theatre school and understanding the difference between career and craft, and staying connected to practice
- Second, Michael Wheeler opened up the Praxis Theatre production of Rifles at Next Stage Theatre Festival to an open “public peer feedback” discussion with Tara Beagan and Emma Mackenzie Hillier
- Gwydion Suilebhan continues his examination of what new play creators can learn from software development, this time writing about agile theatre makers
- Diane Ragsdale re-frames the thinking about building-based arts and culture organizations: artistic homes or artistic prisons?
- Does digital theatre pose a threat to live performance? Not really—but in case you need convincing
- How two Boston-area theatres are bringing new approaches to casting calls: Cattle Callbacks No More
- The Ontario Arts Council has released their Phase 1 Strategic Planning Report
- Theatre workers expose themselves to risk of head injuries—Janet Sellery debunks some hard hat myths in the theatre
- Congratulations to long-time Theatre Ontario member Sally Armour Wotton on the launch of her new book We The Storytellers, which brings her Trinity School of Divinity workshops on storytelling and narrative theology to the page, launching January 29 at 3:00pm at Crux Book Store
- Forever Young Information wrote about the province’s community theatre scene, with a focus on Elmira Theatre Company
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