Ontario Off Stage

by Brandon Moore, Communications Coordinator

Behind The Scenes At Ontario Theatre

• We were sorry to hear about the passing of Sharon Dyer, actor / singer / playwright and one of our former Professional Theatre Coordinators here at Theatre Ontario.  Scott White is performing in Smile Theatre's current production of Sweet Marie, one of Sharon’s shows, and remembered her in Goodnight, Sweet Sharon

Conversation Starters

• Canadian theatre has a youth problem, argues Holger Syme on Dispositio

From The Wire

• Kelly Nestruck reports in the Globe and Mail on the Stratford Festival’s plans for filming productions for worldwide theatre distribution

TO Toasts

• Congratulations to Nicolas Billon who won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama in English for his collection Fault Lines: Greenland – Iceland – Faroe Islands; his collaboration with Praxis Theatre on an adaptation of Brecht’s Senora Carrar’s Rifles is coming up at the Next Stage Festival in Toronto, a production with roots in the Neil Munro Intern Directors Project at the Shaw Festival

Governor General's Literary Award recipient Nicolas Billon
with Ravi Jain, who directed all three Fault Lines premieres