The recipient of an Order of Canada and winner of a clutch of theatre awards — not to mention a mountain of critical bouquets — during her four decades onstage, Seana McKenna is routinely referred to as one of the country’s finest actors. But she refuses to coast on her reputation.
It’s hard to find anyone living in Canada who hasn’t at least heard of the Stratford Festival. As the largest classical repertory theatre in North America, the internationally recognized festival offers more than a dozen shows every year across four venues. But incredible staged Shakespeare productions aren’t the only artistic opportunities the festival offers. For … Continued
There are children who are going to leave this show and realize that all you need to shrink or grow are a couple of chairs.
“A character in the play says, ‘We want theatre to reflect our people’. Well, I’m a Torontonian. I was born and raised here. Why am I not seeing myself on stage?”
Now that you’ve arrived, what’s to be done next? Fear not, because Blake and Clay of the Toronto Fringe hit Gay For Pay with Blake & Clay have the answers.
“Relaxed performance kind of calls that into question and throws it on its head and says, ‘well, says who? Says who that’s what it means to be a good audience member?’”
I wrote like the devil was on my back. Because she was… and she wore a very loudly ticking watch. I had time to write. And I did.
this house is made of people. which means that it is alive, which means life doesn’t have to be this way.
In the moment, the showmance sounds cute. But will it be worth it if (and when) it all comes crashing down and falls apart?
The resources available to us and the awareness we have about public services feel meagre and insufficient.
These boundaries are unique in every situation… But I was nineteen, without boundaries yet. And my sense of self was easily shaken.
The week of September 20, 2012, I was on the cover of NOW Magazine. I also couldn’t pay my rent.
My process with solo shows involves sharing bits of text with audiences when I don’t really know where it’s going, or how it’s going to end. I’m pivoting myself to the responses from the audience — I sniff out where I want to go, and how I want to shape the piece. Through creating solo shows, I discovered how much I love this direct, unfettered relationship with an audience.
“I want audiences to see Black joy through these historical figures, and not just see the trauma,” says playwright Luke Reece.
Broadway actor Jewelle Blackman reflects on the strange and sentimental reality of returning to Hadestown after the pandemic.
In a life already full of fascinating chapters, Soheil Parsa has turned another page. Early this summer, Parsa stepped down as co-artistic director of Modern Times, the theatre company he co-founded three decades ago with Peter Farbridge. The “dream” now for Parsa, as he characterizes it, is to work as a freelance director, liberated from fundraising and administrative responsibilities.
