Monday, September 17, 2012
by Michael Wheeler This post continues my efforts as a director of Senora Carrar’s Riles to stage the piece as per Brecht’s instructions “with a documentary film showing the events in …
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 12:52PMWednesday, September 5, 2012
Just four days after the call for applications for the job of Artistic Director closed, the Factory Theatre Board has appointed Nina Lee Aquino and Nigel Shawn Williams as…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 07:52AMFriday, August 31, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnRRBY7F_yM Los Cuatro Generales (The Four Generals) – an anti-Franco song from The Spanish Civil War by Michael Wheeler, As mentioned in my last post, …
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 08:38AMMonday, August 27, 2012
by Michael Wheeler It’s been a while since our last round-up of interesting ideas and discussions going on elsewhere. Theater and the War Against Youth American dramaturg, playwright a…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 10:01AMSaturday, August 18, 2012
Summerworks 2012 Special- Philip Akin Greta talks to Philip Akin, the Artistic Director of Obsidian Theatre, about Summerworks and how being a martial arts expert helps him run a theatre c…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 03:18PMFriday, August 10, 2012
by Michael Wheeler Sunny’s here. Every year SummerWorks seems to have an increasingly stellar and creative line-up. Let’s set aside this evidence new and experimental work is incre…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 09:33AMMonday, July 30, 2012
by Michael Wheeler http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q9a-f7tTqI If you were in Toronto this summer it was hard not to run into the two weeks of heavy construction at Queen and Spadina. In this…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 11:12AMWednesday, July 25, 2012
by Michael Wheeler Last week traffic to praxistheatre.com exploded when we re-published David Ferry’s Facebook letter asking the under thirty-five set why they were not outraged by th…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 12:51PMThursday, July 5, 2012
From a rehearsal standpoint, I spent much of my spring at The Court House Theatre working as assistant director with director Alisa Palmer on A Man and Some Women by Githa Sowerby. The pro…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 02:03PMTuesday, May 15, 2012
by Michael Wheeler Last fall I spent a bunch of time at Occupy Toronto and Occupy Wall St. In Toronto, I marched in the streets as well as scheduling meetings in St. James Park with various …
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 08:37AMFriday, May 11, 2012
Since mid-February I have been working along with Krista Jackson as one of two Neil Munro Intern Directors at The Shaw Festival. The Theatre Ontario and Sun Life Financial sponsored program …
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 09:50AMThursday, April 26, 2012
by Michael Wheeler CAEA is about to change how it interacts with indie and self-producing artists in Canada. Before this goes down, CAEA Executive Director Arden Ryshpan is engaged in a cros…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 02:46PMTuesday, April 24, 2012
by Michael Wheeler This winter I worked with editor and activist Brigette DePape to write an article about Praxis Theatre. Titled Creating Political Theatre on The Internet, it looks at a nu…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 01:05PMMonday, March 19, 2012
Chicago/Toronto Performance Summit: Cultural Ecosystems Presented by The Theatre Centre in partnership with The Drake Hotel and The City of Toronto March 24-26, 2012 as part of FREE FALL ‘…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 09:25AMFriday, March 16, 2012
by Michael Wheeler Welcome to the re-vamped praxistheatre.com. It was almost four years ago that I wrote my first major post for Praxis. It was titled Lumi-not-go and was a response to the f…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 09:27AMThursday, March 1, 2012
by Michael Wheeler This March will bring Free Fall ‘12 to The Theatre Centre, an eight-day biennial national performance festival featuring new and boundary-testing works by emerging and e…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 02:50PMFriday, February 10, 2012
Praxis Theatre is involved in two events as part of Social Media Week next week, both of which address the intersection of performance and online technologies. Although many of these events …
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 03:28PMTuesday, February 7, 2012
by Michael Wheeler The movement to work outside strictly partisan lines to take Parliament back from a Harper Conservative Party supported by a minority of Canadians has been bolstered recen…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 08:47AMThursday, February 2, 2012
by Michael Wheeler After years of slashing and bashing the Canadian arts community, the Harper Government has finally decided to embrace live theatre through an exciting new partnership just…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 12:42PMSaturday, January 14, 2012
Toronto culture scored a rare win this week at City Hall as arts grants and reduced library hours became some of the very few measures pulled off the chopping block in the 2012 budget by the…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 06:46PMMonday, December 26, 2011
Monday, December 5, 2011
The budget brought forward on November 28 recommends a 10% cut to arts grants totaling $1.94 million. Budget deputations will be heard on December 7 and 8, and the final budget will be app…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 10:34AMMonday, November 28, 2011
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwRSPLg4QlM Watch the YouTube Trailer for Jesus Chrysler by Michael Wheeler As the artistic leaders of The Worker’s Theatre movement in Canada during The Great Depr…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 08:22AMFriday, November 25, 2011
by Michael Wheeler Alan Filewod’s Committing Theatre begins with a single event from June 1919. Unable to get a response from his government about how the upkeep of city properties are…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 11:11AMFriday, October 28, 2011
by Michael Wheeler This week, more than a hundred members of the Canadian Arts Coalition met on Parliament Hill for meetings with more than a hundred MPs and Senators. A hectic day of meetin…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 10:47AMWednesday, October 26, 2011
Malcolm X presents his closing remarks in a debate at Oxford Union, a special all university organization as part of Oxford University billed as “the world’s most…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 11:35AMFriday, October 14, 2011
by Michael Wheeler I realize it is a little strange as the Co-Artistic Director of Praxis Theatre and Editor of praxistheatre.com to publish a blog post about the best play I’ve worked…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 10:01AMWednesday, October 12, 2011
“No one will ever love you as much as I do. Why isn’t love enough?”
Tonight is opening night of Closer by Patrick Marber at Espace 4001 in Montreal.
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 05:36PMMonday, October 3, 2011
Statement from Occupy Wall Street – this statement was voted on and approved by the general assembly of protesters at Liberty Square: As we gather together in solidarity to express a f…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 10:41AMMonday, September 19, 2011
Praxis Theatre Artistic Producer Aislinn Rose will be Live Tweeting community deputations at City Hall today. Join in the conversation whether you are there too, or following along from home…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 02:15PMTuesday, September 13, 2011
by Michael Wheeler “The rich people have their lobbyists and the poor people have their feet.” Nathalie Des Rosiers, General Counsel of Canadian Civil Liberties Association speak…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 03:28PM 
