With the launch of his much ballyhooed “Cut the Waist” program, Mayor Rob Ford has thrown down the gauntlet to Torontonians attempting to shake off some of that accumulated winter poundage. On the program’s website people are encouraged to “make a pledge to the charity of your choice and help the Ford brothers cut the waist.” …
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Here’s a fascinating article that takes a remarkably honest and straightforward look at the issue of appropriating communal and cultural voices that are not our own. The discussion stems from a theatre class wherein students felt strongly that A Doll’s House, though written by a man (Henrik Ibsen), is legitimately a “woman’s play” and that …
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Today marks the deadline for Theatre Creators’ Reserve submissions to Studio 180 so it seems an apt opportunity to reflect on our past involvement with the program and to pass along an update from a previously recommended project, much like we did with The Normal Heart‘s Jonathan Seinen in this earlier blog. In 2009, Studio …
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It seems like only yesterday we detailed a ridiculously busy week for Studio 180 in a blog entitled The Week That Was. It was the first week of rehearsal for The Normal Heart and a whirlwind of activity accompanied the beginning of that creative process. Cut to almost two months later and another week of heightened …
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Throughout rehearsals and the run of The Normal Heart we’d like to give our audiences an opportunity to get to know more about the team that makes the show possible – both on and off stage. We put a series of questions out to the cast and crew and we’re happy to share their answers with you …
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Throughout rehearsals and the run of The Normal Heart we’d like to give our audiences an opportunity to get to know more about the team that makes the show possible – both on and off stage. We put a series of questions out to the cast and crew and we’re happy to share their answers with you …
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Recently, the cast and crew of Studio 180’s production of The Normal Heart took time out from their rehearsals to attend a matinee screening of We Were Here, David Weissman’s powerful documentary chronicling the early days of the AIDS crisis in San Francisco. The harrowing film speaks to the value of cinema as an avenue …
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With the recent announcement that Studio 180 has once again been selected as a third party recommender for the Ontario Arts Council’s Theatre Creators’ Reserve program, we thought it was an excellent opportunity to touch base with one of our past successful applicants in order to get a sense of where they’re at with their …
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Throughout rehearsals and the run of The Normal Heart we’d like to give our audiences an opportunity to get to know more about the team that makes the show possible – both on and off stage. We put a series of questions out to the cast and crew and we’re happy to share their answers with you …
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Throughout rehearsals and the run of The Normal Heart we’d like to give our audiences an opportunity to get to know more about the team that makes the show possible – both on and off stage. We put a series of questions out to the cast and crew and we’re happy to share their answers with you …
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