Please join Praxis Theatre for the next entry in our series of original play readings. Tonight, we are pleased to present two short works: The Progressive Apparatus by Hugh Spencer and Dark by Simon Ogden.
WHAT: Reading of The Progressive Apparatus (Hugh Spencer) and Dark (Simon Ogden).
WHEN: Monday, April 7 @ 8 pm
WHERE: The Concord Café – 937 Bloor St. West
(Just West of Ossington subway station on the south side)
All are welcome. For more information, please contact Laura Nordin.
Actor/Director Hume Baugh (The Girl in the Picture Tries to Hang Up the Phone, Child Hood) wasn’t happy to see photographers while leaving this house on Toronto’s trendy Queen Street East.
His production of All’s Well That Ends Well opens March 26, 2008 at Alchemy Theatre.
Eric Peterson (Necessary Angel’s Half Life, TV’s Corner Gas) and Caroline Gillis (Tarragon’s How It Works, da da kamera’s A Beautiful View) outside the Capitol Event Theatre before Necessary Angel’s 3 Plays/1 Day Gala. (Thanks to Daniel MacIvor for the photo.)
Celebrity fight director Joe Bostick (Dirty Dancing, A Nanking Winter) and Derrick Chua (left) co-producer of Studio 180’s Stuff Happens seen chatting it up and the opening night party of A Nanking Winter.
Thanks to everyone who came out to Praxis Theatre’s fundraiser this past weekend. We’ve got more photos from the event than we know what to do with. Check some of them out here.
Next steps
by Michael Wheeler
Okay, so, eight months after my original Build Your Own Theatre (BYOT) post, I’m back with a new proposition.
The original proposition, which basically bartered help improving The Lower Ossington Theatre for rehearsal space, went pretty well. We got the building into much better shape over the summer and fall: The entranceway and lobby got a new coat of paint. A dance floor went down in Studio B. A massive 300 sq-ft blackboard wall was installed. The skylight and doorways in the theatre were fitted with removable plugs. All of this was accomplished with the help of people who traded their labour for rehearsal space.
We also changed the name: No longer the Queen West Arts Centre (QWAC), we are now the Lower Ossington Theatre (The LOT). QWAC was whack. The LOT is hot.
Here’s the new idea:
The LOT Workshop Performance Series.
Monday through Thursday evenings many of our studios are booked solid with everything from Capuera to Sexy Strut classes. Friday and Saturday nights past 8pm are free. This building is smack dab in the middle of where everyone in Toronto is going on Friday and Saturday night anyhow (Ossington between Queen and Dundas), so lets put some shows on in the theatre here.
It works like this:
No rental fee. We split the box office 50/50. Ticket price TBD.
You provide whatever you need. We have a few instruments, but not many. Whatever you set up has to be strikeable at the end of the night. You also provide you own box office staff and operators for whatever equipment you will be running.
Schedule is as follows:
Day 1: Thursday. Tech/dress. 6-10pm
Set up whatever you can in a couple of hours and give it a practice go. Our Technical Director, Dennis, works with you to integrate your best ideas with the realities of the space.
Day 2 : Friday Set up 6-8pm Performance 8:30pm
Day 3: Saturday Set up 6-8pm Performance 8:30pm
How do you do this?
Email me at space(at)lowerossingtontheatre.com
We need to know:
1) What the piece is and in general terms how you would stage it.
2) Who the artists involved are with short bios.
3) What the technical requirements would be (remember, we don’t have much).
4) Why you think you can draw an audience.
I will look over all submissions with our TD, let people know what we think is feasible and a good idea.
That’s it. If you think you can run multiple weekends and draw a reasonable sized crowd it is also a possibility. The Toronto Youth Theatre, One Reed Theatre, Geek Girl Productions and even us at Praxis Theatre have transformed the space for exciting performances. We know this is entirely doable. Who’s interested?
Please join us for a
Praxis Theatre fundraising party
This Saturday, February 16.
At the Lower Ossington Theatre.
100A Ossington Ave. Toronto.
DJ. Silent auction. Raffle. Alcohol.
Surprises. $10 at the door. 9pm – 2am.
We are trying to raise money for our
upcoming production of Stranger.
We love you. Please come.
All are welcome.
Click here for directions.
Please join us for a
Praxis Theatre fundraising party
This Saturday, February 16.
At the Lower Ossington Theatre.
100A Ossington Ave. Toronto.
DJ. Silent auction. Raffle. Alcohol.
Surprises. $10 at the door. 9pm – 2am.
We are trying to raise money for our
upcoming production of Stranger.
We love you. Please come.
All are welcome.
Click here for directions.
Please join Praxis Theatre for the next entry in our series of original play readings. Tonight, we are pleased to present two short works: The Progressive Apparatus by Hugh Spencer and Dark by Simon Ogden.
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