176 stories by "Praxis"
AND 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…
As 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…
Ontario 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, …
Wednesday, 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 whole …
The 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 …
Greta 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 in…
by 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 me w…
Text: 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…
Sound 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…
by 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…
The 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…
Senora 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…
Summerworks 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=duAjvCV8…
Summerworks 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 …
SummerWorks 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 wort…
by 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 …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHVvnEWez1M Trailer for His Girl Friday the 1940s film. Directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant by Krista Jackson It’s hard to believe it is the mi…
I have been following with interest the events and actions surrounding the recent firing of Ken Gass at Factory Theatre. I have seen several letters from some extraordinary artists that offe…
by Anthea Foyer Transmedia storytelling is becoming much more prevalent. Even if you have not heard the word you have probably experienced it, or a part of it, in some way in both popular an…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ3Ha2G5ctM YouTube Video for pomme is french for apple The Patron's Pick (one for each official Fringe venue) is decided after every company's 4th show. Selec…
by Sarah Thorpe It's been interesting being involved in two separate productions that both dealt with Toronto's G20 Summit. In You Should Have Stayed Home (Praxis Theatre and The Original No…
Text: I am horizontal You are vertical You are the mountain I am the valley I am the Earth You are the Sun I am the shield You are the sword I am the wound You are the pain I am the night Yo…
Text: IRINA. [Sobbing] Where? Where has everything gone? Where is it all? Oh my God, my God! I’ve forgotten everything, everything… I don’t remember what is the Italian for…
Gentle readers, That most anticipated time of year is upon us again: the Toronto Fringe Festival will once again spread across the Annex, inciting twelve wild days of drinking, debauchery, a…
Recently we held a fundraiser at the home of one of our generous donors, Irfhan Rawji, and we’d like to take a moment to offer thanks. We had an amazing line-up of artists and performe…
