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Actors Ghazal Azarbad and Paolo Santalucia each give five reasons they wouldn’t have survived the 1600s.
Here Are the 2018 Toronto Theatre Critics Award Winners
Toronto’s theatre critics just announced their favourite shows of the year for 2018.
The Royal Wedding, Yanny/Laurel, and Doug Ford Action Movies
If you ever see an audition breakdown looking for a “Tony Nappo type,” don’t go.
Telling the Story of the Murder Trial that Changed the Country
Fiction about a real-world tragedy risks sensationalizing the events that remain painful for a lot of people. But they also provide the opportunity to explore human behaviour, to directly address the impacts of violence and trauma.
Preshow Announcements, Private Acting Coaching, and Election Facts
Many people have been inquiring lately about whether or not I do any private acting coaching. I do, but my rates are astronomical and you have to have won a minimum of three major acting awards.
Teenagers from This Year’s Paprika Festival on What They Want to See More of on Toronto Stages
Six young artists involved in the Paprika Festival tell us what kind of theatre they want to see more of.
The Problem With “The Show Must Go On”
When I reflect on the number of artists I know who suffer from mental health issues, and the unique stressors that come with our profession, the resources available to us and the awareness we have about public services feel meagre and insufficient.
Disability, Represented
I cannot deny being moved by some of those performances, but that doesn’t minimize the reality of appropriation.
ABBA Reunion, Worst Dates, and Trigger Warnings
Wondering which of these things may happen first before I die: a Stanley Cup in Toronto or Dennis Miller thinking up a funny Michelle Wolf joke.
7 Things You Might Become in Love
I’ll never be finished learning about love because it isn’t one sole feeling; it is complex, capable of carrying contradiction.
Empowered or Objectified? Women, Sex, and The ’94 Club
How much of what we do as sexual beings is dictated by what society around us expects us to do?
Incels, Money Scams, and Girls Like That at Tarragon Theatre
That last period of the Boston-Toronto series looked like a father-son peewee game.
Forever Emerging
If my art has plateaued—if I have plateaued, if I never become professional—how do I move forward?
Based On and Inspired By: How Artists Work from Real Material
A playwright, an actor, a designer, and two theatre creators/performers talk about what it’s like working on a piece of theatre based, in some way, in reality.
The 2019 Dora Awards Will Have Gender-Neutral Categories
A major change is coming to the 2019 Dora Awards.
Mad Kitchen: Jovanni Sy’s Rellenong Bangus, via Derek Chan
Thankfully, Hong Kong–born and Vancouver-based Chan was (and still is) a capable home cook.
Canadian Film Day, Theatre Marketing, and 420
I’m so old that I remember when stupid people actually knew they were stupid and wanted people smarter than themselves to run things.