Conversation Starters
- Last Saturday in Montreal, the National Theatre School of Canada and SpiderWebShow hosted a livestreamed forum on Canadian Theatre; the archive is now available from HowlRound TV
- This week in Factory Theatre Opening Night Controversy: A Google chat featuring Michael Wheeler, Aislinn Rose, Carly Chamberlain and Tanya Rintoul (with a cameo and cliffhanger from Michael Healey in the comments) on Praxis Theatre
- On the need for culturally-specific theatre companies: Mike Lew writes on HowlRound “I’ll Disband My Roving Gang of Thirty Asian Playwrights When You Stop Doing Asian Plays in Yellow Face* (*Exception: David Henry Hwang’s play Yellow Face)”
- Meanwhile, Melissa Hillman calls out “autonomy of art” for what it is: “Protecting Racism in Theatre” on Bitter Gertrude
- Vancouver’s new smoking by-law has been expanded to include e-cigarettes, and the assumption is that other municipalities will follow (Innisfil is the only community in Ontario currently with this prohibition), and as Lois Dawson relates on Lois Backstage we will need to continue to be imaginative in finding solutions
- Alameda Theatre Company has announced that it will be closing following this year’s De Colores Festival of New Works—but there will be a closing night party on October 24
From the Wire- The Ontario Arts Council has released their new strategic plan: Vital Arts and Public Value
TO Toasts
- …to all of the finalists for the Governor General’s Literary Awards, including Drama finalists Sean Dixon and Jordan Tannahill of Ontario
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