Ontario Off Stage

by Brandon Moore, Communications Coordinator

Conversation Starters

• Anne Heathcote, our Ontario Summer Theatre blogger, has visited her first theatre: Upper Canada Playhouse in Morrisburg
• “The combination of games and theatres is too full of new possibilities to not explore it more”—Learning from the Gamification of Theatre by Megan Reilly on HowlRound
• In The Green Room started a series profiling the Tarragon Theatre’s Playwrights Unit with a conversation with dramaturg Andrea Romaldi

From The Wire

TheatreBooks - closing their doors after 39 years

• TheatreBooks is closing their doors after 39 years due to “the changing retail landscape.”  Leonard McHardy and John Harvey have made an invaluable contribution to our community—for me, time browsing in their store was always time well spent
• Simon Brault, the new C.E.O. of the Canada Council, talks in a video about his vision of public engagement in the arts, the pivotal role played by artists in our society, and the importance of the Canada Council’s mission
• The Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas International Conference live-streamed several sessions—and the archives are now available for viewing

Migrations

• Michael Coteau is the new Ontario Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport
• Victoria Steele is the new Executive Director of the AOE Arts Council in Ottawa

TO Toasts

• Congratulations to Ian Farthing, outgoing Artistic Director of the St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival, named as Prescott’s inaugural Citizen of the Year
• Congratulations to all of the recipients of the Dora Mavor Moore Awards

In Case You Missed It

• In part one of a two-part series, Colin Bruce Anthes reflects on “Practicing Deeply” at training with SITI Company as part of the Independent Theatre Creators International Training Scholarship