Behind The Scenes At Ontario’s Theatres
- It really seemed too-good-to-be-true: the Siminovitch Prize is back. The prize—which is dedicated to distinguished scientist Lou Siminovitch and his late wife Elinore, a playwright—awards $100,000 to a mid-career artist in directing, playwriting, and design; $25,000 of which is given to a protégée of the recipient’s choice. The award is now presented in partnership with the University of Toronto and the RBC Foundation. The deadline for nominations is September 16, and the award will be presented on October 21
- The 2013 Ontario Fringe season comes to a close this weekend as the Hamilton Fringe, under the new leadership of Claire Calnan, wraps up. 2014’s Fringe season will kick off a little earlier with the newest stop in mid-May: the Durham Fringe Festival (FB page)
- And speaking of Fringe, I had the pleasure of meeting Ken Harrower a year ago in the Toronto Fringe Club—as I recall, he was a member of that year’s Fringe 100. His story is remarkable, as CBC Toronto shared in a recent broadcast
- Playwrights Guild of Canada caught up with Hamilton playwright Stephen Near and, among other topics, talked about opportunities for playwrights to work with community theatres. As you know this is a popular topic with us—for over fifteen years we’ve been connecting Canadian playwrights and communities through “Playwright-in-Person” at Theatre Ontario Festival and Summer Courses (with the support of PGC and the Canada Council) and the recognition of successful original works in our partnership with Playwrights Canada Press to publish Grassroots: Original Plays From Ontario Community Theatres
- The July 11th weekly Howl from HowlRound posed the question “Technology is transforming the practice of theatre. How can we invite technological change and not lose our way?” Moderated by playwright Gwydion Suilebhan, it was fun to engage with colleagues both local and abroad on a challenging topic with many diverging discussions threads
- Theatres’ Facebook page administrators lucky enough to have the new Facebook Insights should check out this information from Erin Richards-Kunkel on the Best New Features of Insights—Facebook has really upped their game in this area
- The full set of Ontario Ministry of Labour health and safety guidelines for live performance are now available online—with recent heat alerts, the Outdoor Venues guideline is a must-read
- The Australia Council for the Arts is no longer funding through specific channels, but exploring a more inter-disciplinary approach to all government arts funding
- Shelly Glover is our new Federal Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages
- Nancy Morgan is the new Executive Director of Theatre Nova Scotia
- Honouring Ontario’s arts innovators and the legacy of Sandra Tulloch
- Ontario’s theatres adapt to the new marketing reality
- Welcome to Mairin Smit, our new Program Coordinator
- And we say a fond farewell to Tim Chapman
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