317 stories from praxistheatre.com
Frequent Praxis Theatre and Theatre Centre collaborator Laura Nanni is working with The Banff Centre to host a live screening of Civil Debates 4 – Â Climate Change. We’re thril…
ANNOUNCING THE RETURN OF CIVIL DEBATES! Monday December 14, 730PM @ Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen Street West Admission PWYW (Pay What You Want) Co-produced by Praxis Theatre and The Theatre Ce…
Praxis Theatre is proud to provide support to our members taking part isn ‘Sex and Violence Collective’s production of OBJECTIONS TO SEX AND VIOLENCE TICKETS Â WEBSITE Novembe…
by Mike Payette December 19, 2014 Last night, my friend/colleague and I went to see Théâtre du Rideau Vert's annual offering of Revue et Corrigée which "parodies" Québec-centric politi…
If you are an artist living and working in Toronto, the Artists' Health Alliance is a resource you need to know about. Here are the top three things we think you should know: 1.   �…
Left to Right: Aislinn Rose, Praxis Artistic Producer and Bunker Producer; Michael Wheeler, Praxis Artistic Director; Carly Chamberlain  & Tanya Rintoul, NTS Directing Students…
“I want to move people. I want them to wake up … It is their silence that allows things to continue.” Â " Juliano Mer-Khamis By Nikki Shaffeeullah Artists in the West, an…
WINNER OF THE 24 HOUR PLAYWRITING CONTEST, PRESENTED BY THE PLAYWRIGHTS GUILD OF CANADA: Midnight on a Monday by Katie Housley After an emotional day at work, an aspiring sitcom writer finds…
*Winners in Bold OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION All Our Happy Days Are Stupid Suburban Beast Birth of Frankenstein Litmus Theatre Ralph + Lina Ahuri Theatre with the support of Why Not Theatre and T…
Text: two kinds of hell by Charles Bukowski I sat in the same bar for 7 years, from 5 a.m. (the day bartender let me in 2 hours early) to 2 a.m. sometimes I didn’t even re…
Since 1995, The Harold Awards have come to represent the independent and hard-working spirit of Toronto's vibrant theatre community. To be Harolded is an honour of the highest subversi…
Major Tom gets all the airtime, but there’s a whole lot more going on backstage at mission control. Meet some of the amazing tech crew on Faster than Night.
by Melissa D’Agostino Hello lovely folks! Last Saturday we presented our work-in-progress, BroadFish, to a wonderfully warm house at the Studio Theatre at Harbourfront Centre as part o…
by Melee Hutton Working on Faster Than Night has been a literal education for me. Not just in the field of social media, where my knowledge hovers somewhere around my own Facebook page an…
Here is the second of the final letters from #legacy. Last week we posted Judith’s letter to her grandson. This week, we have Donna’s. The version in the piece was edited for len…
 ”Naturalism is a good word for a bad idea. Art is to do with transformation” " Ariane Mnouchkine by Alison Humphrey In our first and latest posts, we explored how motion capt…
by Francisco-Fernando Granados With only 3 days until our public presentation, things are busy, but coming together. The interactive script is live online as a Google Form that can be filled…
by Rob Kempson #legacy opened and closed on April 12th. To say that it was a moving experience would be the understatement of the year. The opportunity to work with these incredibly brave an…
by Alison Humphrey As far as we’re aware, Faster than Night is one of the first handful of theatre productions in the world to use facial performance capture live on stage. But while f…
A longer post is coming soon with details on the 3D facial model work being done by Centaur Digital and Dynamixyz, but to tide you over, here are a few more elements from our talented cre…
by Francisco-Fernando Granados If the difference between performance and any other medium is the folding together of the time of the making of the work with that of its showing, the differen…
by Melissa D’Agostino Hello out there! Thanks for following along on my journey developing BroadFish for HatchTO. Creating a new theatrical work  is a crazy, roller coaster ride of …
hand hatch for an interview with Harbourfront Centre
if letters were lovers
Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn portrait comparison
salsa lights
except from a collaboration with Nathalie Lo…
By Samantha Serles, Dramaturg I am the dramaturg for #legacy by Rob Kempson, in residence this week at Harbourfront Centre as part of HATCH 2014! I think this project is fascinating because …
by Pascal Langdale In the UK, I'd be called a "jobbing actor". That means that I work across all sorts of media, picking up a wide variety of acting work that provides a steady income. �…
