72 stories by "Michael Wheeler"
After 33 years in rental spaces across the city, The Theatre Centre will break ground on its permanent home, launching a year-long renovation of the historic Carnegie Library building at 111…
by Michael Wheeler After one week of intense tech, Tear The Curtain! will open to a sold out Bluma Appel Theatre tonight. Like lead character Alex Braithewaite, the show has been taken apart…
by Michael Wheeler Last week David Mirvish, the pre-eminent producer of for-profit Toronto theatre made two major announcements that reflect the rapidly transforming theatrical ecosystem to …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no34JqXTk8Q by Michael Wheeler Two years ago, as part of a Canada Council-supported Director in Training residency at The Tarragon Theatre, I was shipped out t…
TEXT: "I understand that there's too much! – a flawed system. The way things work is just so fucked up. I could go on and on for hours, I've been researching for years. I've neverseen …
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 Spain,…
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…
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…
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…
Summerworks 2012 Special- Philip Akin Greta talks to Philip Akin, the Artistic Director of Obsidian Theatre, Â about Summerworks and how being a martial arts expert helps him run a theatre…
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…
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…
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 …
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 p…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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 '12…
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…
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 est…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
