After receiving over 100 suggestions for debate topics as well as a slew of suggestions for debaters through our interactive installation at The Next Stage Festival, Praxis Theatre and The T…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 08:45AMGreta chats with Nigel Shawn Williams, half of the Interim Artistic Team (IAT) of Factory Theatre about what he would like to accomplish during his…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 02:30PMClick the image to see the full gallery on the new National Wrecking Ball Website with information on Wrecking Ball Events across Canada. Do you have it bookmarked yet?
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 11:30AMText: “Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azureR…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 10:50AMClick the image to find out playwrights involved in Wrecking Ball 14: Idle No More. Also check it out: The Wrecking Ball has a new National Website!
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 09:18AMIn December last year we announced a new joint initiative with The Theatre Centre called Civil Debates: an opportunity for two speakers from opposite sides of an argument to debate their per…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 01:17PMA new year has brought some new developments to Toronto theatre: The Wrecking Ball has a new Facebook page. Outside The March has a new website. Hannah Moscovitch has a new mini-festival of …
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 10:10AMText: “What about identity? I asked. He said: It’s self- defense… Identity is the child of birth, but at the end, it’s self invention, and not an inheritance of the p…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 08:54AMLast year was a big one for us. Michael co-curated FreeFall ’12 at The Theatre Centre with AD Franco Boni, and spent seven months at The Shaw Festival, where he assistant directed Ra…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 12:16PMby Aislinn Rose and Michael Wheeler 10 The Guardian for giving props to designers in The 10 best theatre designs – in pictures Critic Susannah Clapp looks at some of the most compelling se…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 02:25PMText: “…sometimes ‘Tis well to be bereft of promis’d good, That we may lift the soul, and contemplate With lively joy the joys we cannot share.” -Samuel Taylor …
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 09:22AMPhoto by Han Soete via Creative Commons In 2013 Praxis Theatre and The Theatre Centre launch Civil Debates. Civil Debates is a monthly series that invites two speakers from opposite sides …
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 09:57AM# Throughout today and tomorrow Toronto City Council’s Budget Committee is hearing deputations from the community about what various citizens and organizations would like to see in the…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 02:24PMTheatre Gargantua Artistic Intern and emerging artist Meara Tubman-Broeren interviews one of our favourite Toronto artists Ciara Adams about her work on The Sacrifice Zone and her long histo…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 03:01PMby Jordan Tannahill Last month my boyfriend William and I signed a one year lease on an old barbershop in Kensington Market, spent three weeks in our long johns scrubbing the walls and floor…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 10:02AMAND NOW A MESSAGE FROM STAF: Competition for TAC & OAC Theatre Project grants is fierce. The pass rate for Project Grants sits at below 35% and isn’t changing. Let us help. STAF will…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 11:06AMAs the Interim Artistic Directors of Factory Theatre, Nina Lee Aquino & Nigel Shawn Williams announced their upcoming season earlier this week. We asked them to provide an artistic respo…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 10:58AMOntario All Candidates Meeting: Monday, October 1st – 7 p.m. – 10 p.m. The Tapestry/Nightwood Ernest Balmer Studio 9 Trinity Street – The Cannery (Distillery), Studio 315, …
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 09:27AMWednesday, September 26, 2012 A PUBLIC STATEMENT: “It is with sadness that we, the undersigned participants of the Factory Boycott of 2012, witness Ken Gass’s honourable exit from the wh…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 11:20AMThe Shaw Festival Directors Projects are a presentation of The Slaight Family Academy of The Shaw Festival and Theatre Ontario. They are performed to an invited audience today at 2pm in The …
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 09:26AMGreta takes on one of her most difficult interviews yet. Although the Prime Minister seems rather disappointed that it is Greta and not Peter Mansbridge, she does manage to cajole him into…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 02:03PMby Kate Fenton Set in Toronto’s subway system, Mister Baxter is a new work I’ve written, which had a previous run at the 2011 Toronto Fringe Festival. One of the themes that emerged for …
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 12:59PMText: In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find…powerful people have liberty. ~ Sun Yet-Sen, revolutio…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 04:19PMSound design and composition by Thomas Ryder Payne The Queen West Project by Deborah Pearson and Allison Cummings is a Theatre Passe Muraille Production as part of their Metcalf Foundation-s…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 11:44AMby Erin Gerofsky Costuming The Directors Project at the Shaw Festival, as with any show, presented unique challenges. We rely on making the best use of the incredible stock of garments we ha…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 10:10AMThe NOW Magazine Audience Choice Award ($3000): Iceland SummerWorks Prize for Outstanding Production (free trip back to the festival next year): Terminus, Outside The March Contra Guys Award…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 09:53AMSenora Carrar’s Rifles by Bertolt Brecht Directed by Michael Wheeler Written in 1937, Senora Carrar’s Rifles is heavily inspired by Synge’s Riders To The Sea, moving the ac…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 08:56AMSummerworks 2012 Special- Amy Nostbakken Greta learns about a not to be missed tourist attraction in Niagara Falls from Barrel Crank’s Amy Nostbakken. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duAjvC…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 12:06PMSummerworks 2012 Special – Beatriz Yuste Greta chats with Bea Yuste about the practical side of wearing a niqab. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyD56CsUo8Q FRANCE (or, The Niqab) runs …
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 12:44PMSummerWorks 2012 Special- Margaret Evans and Laura Nordin Greta gets some tips on how to handle firearms from the leading ladies of Fierce Monters. She goes a little overtime…but it’s wo…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 01:13PMby Brendan Howlett I grew up in the Riverdale neighbourhood on the east side of the Don Valley River. Back when I was a kid, Riverdale and Leslieville were not the burgeoning hot spots they …
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