176 stories by "Praxis"
After a successful #CivilDebate 1 on the Creative Cities theories of Richard Florida, we’re excited to announce the debaters for the second resolution in our Civil Debates series…
Omar Hady and Jiv Parasaram http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThRy5nks7H8 Greta chats with the team behind To the Last Cry and The Lost Sagas of Tjorvi the Flaccid.  Pandemic The…
Last night we held our inaugural Civil Debate with The Theatre Centre, examining the Creative Cities theories of Richard Florida: Be it resolved that the Creative Cities theories…
Welcome to Debate Day #1 – Creative Cities WHEN: Doors @ 7pm, debate @ 7.30pm WHERE:Â The Theatre Centre Pop-Up, 1095 Queen St. West, at Dovercourt PWYC at the door. No RSVP required…
Text: “The fact that something is difficult must be further reason for us to do it. Â It is also good to love; for love is difficult.” ~ Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet Image: S…
The Resolution: Be it resolved that the Creative Cities theories serve to reinforce dominant class structures. The Context: The emergence of the Creative Economy and Creative Cla…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E1kuonAwLE Greta chats with Laws of Motion actor David Tompa about working under the Artists Collective Policy. 3 Tips from David Tompa for Actors Working Und…
So Mea Culpa: Some of you may understandably have tonight as the kickoff date to the Civil Debates series. This was the case in the original announcement. As we began talking to the arra…
Guest post by Leora Morris The first time I read Gilbert's Engaged (a wordy Victorian farce that inspired other wordy playwrights like George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde), it seemed like it…
TEXT:Â Â "They are lonely. I’m not talking about lonely for a lover or a friend. I mean lonely in the universal sense, lonely inside the understanding that we are tiny people on a…
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…
Greta chats with Nigel Shawn Williams, half of the Interim Artistic Team (IAT) of Factory Theatre about what he would like to accomplish during his…
Click 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?
Text: "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 azure……
Click 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!
In 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…
A 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 …
Text: “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…
Last 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 directe…
by 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 set …
Text: “…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 …
Photo 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 si…
# 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…
Theatre 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…
by 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…
