Conversation Starters
- You’ve Cott Mail recently curated an issue focusing on strategies for getting millennials to attend the arts
- Howard Sherman explores how the introduction of Periscope and Meerkat—tools for streaming live video from your phone—will impact the marketing of live performance
- Megan Reilly shares her insights on the challenges of designing for interactive theatre on HowlRound
- Ari Weinberg, the Intern Artistic Director, at Acting Up Stage Company (and new Artistic Director of Winnipeg Jewish Theatre), writes about “the show that changed his life”
- Is theatre criticism crucial for anybody or anything? Are theatre critics too negative? Is the field dying out? Jonathan Mandell explores these questions in “Are theatre critics critical?” on HowlRound
- The Guelph Arts Council’s “Artful Pledge” for March was to “Learn!”
- Diana Belshaw has been a valued member of our Youth Theatre Training Program jury, and in 2011 was honoured with our Maggie Bassett Award for her contribution to theatre in Ontario. I first met Diana when she was with Canadian Actors Equity Association and she helped me navigate my first-ever Guest Artist Contact as a community theatre producer. She recently returned to the stage after fifteen years in the Native Earth Performing Arts / Factory Theatre production of The Unplugging, and was profiled on the Native Earth site
- Laurel Smith, Talent Bank member and Artistic Director of Classic Theatre Festival in Perth, dramaturged and directed a performance of “Listen Up, Perth!” as part of the Youth Centres Canada “YouthXChange” conference focusing on a range of issues facing Canadian youth
- Gideon Arthurs—CEO of the National Theatre School, and a former General Manager at Tarragon Theatre and Executive Director of the Toronto Fringe Festival—was profiled in the National Post, as the school explores what is needed in the theatre community from the next generation of theatre artists
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| "Listen Up, Perth!" from Classic Theatre Festival, dramaturged by Talent Bank member Laurel Smith |
In Case You Missed It
- Professional Theatre Training Program project profiles, featuring Sarah Kitz (training in directing with Amiel Gladstone), Julia Hune-Brown (training in artistic directing with Ruth Howard), and Mariel Marshall (training in directing with Ross Manson)
- Meet Joanne Williams, Theatre Ontario Board Member and Interim General Manager of the Toronto Fringe Festival, as she shares her experience getting into the Toronto theatre community
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