Love is the First Step: In Conversation with A Wrinkle in Time’s Thomas Morgan Jones
“A Wrinkle in Time is one of those stories that is centred on empowering young people’s voices… there isn’t anything that they can’t do.”
A Perfect Pronunciation of Pho (in which you probably won’t actually learn how to pronounce pho)
Can we contend that the saying of “foh” facilitates the task of communicating the noodle soup to you just fine, which is precisely what a word is supposed to do?
Toronto Fringe New Young Reviewers Roundup #2
The New Young Reviewers Program (previously, Teenjur Young Critics), supported by the Jon Kaplan Legacy Fund, is a workshop series and writing group for emerging theatre and performance reviewers Canada-wide, ages 15 and up.
Toronto Fringe New Young Reviewers Roundup
The New Young Reviewers Program (previously, Teenjur Young Critics), supported by the Jon Kaplan Legacy Fund, is a workshop series and writing group for emerging theatre and performance reviewers Canada-wide, ages 15 and up. Led by Signy Lynch (Contemporary Theatre Review, Canadian Theatre Review, Intermission Magazine) and Stephanie Fung (Kingston Theatre Alliance, Canadian Theatre Review, Single Thread Theatre), this … Continued
Embedded Criticism: Inside Toronto Fringe with the New Young Reviewers, Part One
Embedded criticism offers reviewers an insider view of a production, as they embed in the rehearsal process of a show as well as review it.
Decay and Regeneration: Re-Framing the Rhubarb Festival
“I’m actively and intentionally shifting away from well-made plays and trying to hone Rhubarb as a space for experimental practices,” said Clayton Lee, Rhubarb’s 2022 Festival Director.
Colder than COLD-VID: Reflections by 4 Isolating Next Stage Alumni on Their Time with the Festival
Next Stage isn’t happening this year. Like most arts festivals, it’s been halted by COVID. In this peculiar time of rest, many theatres have been re-evaluating their practises, seeing who they’ve left out of the programming and how they may better serve their communities.
Fringe: Memories of a Long-Time Volunteer
What follows are my memories, my perspectives, and my recollections of my Fringe experiences, and thus may contain but are not limited to accurate depictions.
I’ve Got the Time
I had just been complaining that I never have enough time to do shrooms.
A Collective Experience: Fringe-ing Wherever You Are
“We could’ve just said we’re not doing a Fringe, that we’re just going to take this moment and not do anything. And we all thought, well, this is the mandate of Fringe, to support the artist, to be a platform for the artist. And this is an opportunity.”
Toronto Fringe Festival Announces 2020 Fringe Collective Programming
“The amount of work that has gone into this, both behind the scenes with the Fringe team and the artists themselves is astounding. It really amplifies how resilient Fringe is and how despite everything there is hope to be found over these 12 days.”
What’s On the Menu at the Festival of Ideas and Creation? In Conversation: Tawiah Ben M’carthy
Festival director and curator Tawiah M’carthy discusses the Festival of Ideas and Creation, a three-day artist festival and colloquium focused on artistic intercultural collaboration and exchange at Canadian Stage.
A Different Kind of Hustle
New stories require a new framework. What does it mean to create a performance that truly works for a Disabled body, on its terms?
New Works, Sequels, Remounts, and Retrospectives: Best of Fringe 2019
Artists appearing in TO Live’s Best of Fringe discuss the challenges and charms of their Fringe run, reflect on the genesis of their work, and contemplate what’s next.
From Riotous Roots: Looking to the Future of the Rhubarb Festival
Mel Hague speaks about her tenure, the future of the fest, and becoming a Google-searchable queer.
The Phoenix and the Fire
As if I’d been sucked through the phone and appeared on the other end of the line, I could see an abstraction of the house against a blue sky with its windows ablaze.
