BC theatre
Actsafe Fills Gap with New ‘Live Performance Electrical Certificate’
January 31, 2011 For immediate release Vancouver, BC – Actsafe today announced the implementation of the “Live Performance Electrical Certificate (LPEC)’. The LPEC will cover electrical work performed during the setup, run and strike of live events, to cable and maintain a lighting rig or set up audio visual or public address systems for live [...]
Actsafe Fills Gap with New Live Performance Electrical Certificate
Actsafe, http://www.actsafe.ca, January 10, 2011 Many theatres, concert halls and other live performance venues, as well as electrical and audio visual technicians working in live performance, may be unaware that electrical certification is required. In British Columbia, the BC Safety Standards Act Electrical Safety Regulations requires workers who handle electrical or audio visual equipment to [...]
Canadian playwright Melissa James Gibson comes home
By Marsha Lederman, Vancouver— Globe and Mail, January 5, 2011 Melissa James Gibson is often identified as an American playwright (at the bookstore, for instance, and until a few days ago on Wikipedia) and while it’s true that she lives in New York and obtained U.S. citizenship a couple of years ago so she could [...]
Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance’s Making a Scene takes a new turn
For 10 years, the Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance’s annual Making a Scene conference brought together members of the professional theatre community to discuss and learn about issues such as arts creation, management, and technical innovation. The 11th annual edition, to be held next Friday and Saturday (November 26 and 27) at W2 Storyeum, is going to [...]
Vancouver’s Electric Company Theatre co-founder wins Canada’s largest theatre award
The largest theatre award in Canada has been handed to one of Vancouver’s most innovative directors. The BMO Financial Group announced Monday that Kim Collier, co-founder of the Electric Company Theatre, has won the 10th-anniversary edition of the Elinore and Lou Siminovitch Prize in Theatre. The award is worth $100,000 but a unique provision calls [...]
Victoria: Life found in alley brought to stage, Journals and photos in abandoned suitcase raised privacy issues
Actor/writer James Long was initially squeamish about opening the hard-shell, baby-blue suitcase. He noticed it in 2005, abandoned in an alley near his home on East 14th Street in East Vancouver. “It was mildewy,” he said. “It was ugly. It was dirty.” Fearing the 1970s-era suitcase might also be a repository for dog urine, Long [...]
Duncan: Fringe Test-drive could lead to bigger things
The Cowichan Fringe delightfully returned as five cutting-edge plays from the global circuit graced Cowichan Theatre’s weekend stage. Each Fringe Revival play drew 30 to 60 viewers as eclectic subjects entertained culture vultures. The kicks continued Saturday night in the Cowichan Fringe (Elks) Club lovingly decorated by faithful volunteers. Fringe Revival sure showed the potential [...]
Kevin Kerr: Back Where He Belongs With The Electric Company
Congratulations to Kevin Kerr, who survived three Edmonton winters (then again, winters aren’t what they were when I was a lad in the Alberta capital) to return in triumph to Vancouver. Kudos too to Kim Collier as she waits to hear about the Siminovitch — if she wins, who will receive the $25,000 that the [...]
Prince George: Theatre North West Requests Service Agreement Extension
Theatre North West is looking to the city of Prince George for a little stability . On Monday night, Theatre Northwest appeared before council to request their service agreement of 18 thousand dollars annually from the city be extended an other year. General Manager Anne Laughlin says its been a challenging year for the theatre.
Electric Company’s Kim Collier short-listed for Siminovitch Prize
Electric Company Theatre’s artistic director and co-founder Kim Collier has been short-listed for the largest prize in Canadian theatre: the 2010 Siminovitch Prize for Theatre. Collier, the only British Columbian nominee, is up for the award alongside Ron Jenkins of Edmonton, and Ross Manson, Alisa Palmer, Soheil Parsa, and Jennifer Tarver, all from Toronto. The finalists were chosen from a long-list [...]
Salmon Arm: Theatre turns the world
It’s been 10 years since Runaway Moon Theatre has been on the move, but the Grindrod puppet theatre is hitting the road with its new all-ages show, The World is Upside Down. With the presentation of the community production, Sawllkwa (meaning water in the Secwepemc language) that took place at the Kingfisher Interpretive Centre in [...]
Port Alberni: Art cuts threaten theatre
The opening of the farce Noises Off by Michael Frayn will mark the beginning of a very special and important season at the Capitol Theatre. Or it could be the beginning of the end for the Portal Players Dramatic Society. Capitol Theatre manager Elliot Drew is worried that with government funding cuts and low season [...]
Theatres take on a quixotic project, The gang behind the crazy comedy The Number 14 takes a crack at staging 1605 novel
Long ago I, like so many of my fellow students, tried to wade through the impenetrable monster of literature that is Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes. Frankly, it was to dream the impossible dream. Thanks to a gang of old hippies who have reinvented that 1605 tome, however, I can now find a way into [...]
Tow left his mark on the arts community across the province
In many ways, I am a child of the theatre. The acting classes my parents scrimped to send me to did very little in terms of developing any talent, but I loved them. My hometown was just 45 minutes from the amazing Stratford Shakespearean Festival. Every summer, I saw the most amazing actors breathing life [...]
Vancouver Announcing the 2010 Making a Scene conference: Devoted and Disgruntled: The 11th Conference for the BC Theatre Community
What are we going to do about theatre? Facilitated by Phelim McDermott & Matilda Leyser of Improbable (London, UK) WHAT: Two days in which YOU design the programme and set the discussion topics which matter to you. WHERE: W2, 151 W. Cordova St, Vancouver BC (the old Storyeum space) WHEN: Friday November 26 & Saturday November [...]
