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Saturday morning I woke up to discover the Federal Minister of Industry, James Moore, took to Twitter to respond to one of my tweets, which he deemed “false”. It started with his…
by Michael Wheeler At every stop along the #G20Romp tour we have provided the same context to our participant detainees – the almost 300 Canadians from across the country who have part…
After 34 acclaimed performances of You Should Have Stayed Home in Whitehorse, Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal, we conclude our tour in Ottawa on November 20th. It is our hope some of our nat…
A sincere congratulations goes out to playwright Nicolas Billon, who has just been announced as the winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama. Billon’s col…
Praxis continues its partnership with The Canadian Civil Liberties Association to use our play as an access point to contribute to the broader discourse surrounding civil liberties in Canada…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90yx0i-wXxs Tommy Taylor interviewed about You Should Have Stayed Home: A #G20Romp on The Rush *50% of tickets for 2pm shows are reserved for Pay What You C…
Hey Brisbane. So I heard the news that you are getting your own G20 Summit Meeting next November. Well, I had the G20 come to my home, Toronto, back in 2010 so I thought I’d give my fe…
Praxis Theatre is thrilled to announce our online collaboration with The English Theatre at The National Arts Centre is now live @ spiderwebshow.ca SpiderWebShow is a theatrical space where …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toxdSii-hDo Culture Vulture’ David C. Jones joined the show in Vancouver and talked to Tommy Taylor about the experience. Hey Toronto, We want you to be …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpaFjNDm13k Watch the above video to hear from CCLA’s Abby Deshman Director, Public Safety Program on G20 Toronto, policing at protests and You …
Text: and an ocean tumbled by with a private boat for Max and he sailed off through night and day and in and out of weeks and almost over a year to where the wild things are. And when he cam…
by Aislinn Rose We’ve just arrived in Vancouver from Whitehorse, after an incredible week touring our #G20Romp, You Should Have Stayed Home, to The Yukon. I have to admit we were al…
Text: Ready to hit the studio and shit all on your mixtape Nah, literally, shit all on your mixtape Wipe with the credits, leave stains on the Jewel case In just two takes, dog, the booth…
Praxis Theatre is thrilled to announce their upcoming presentations of You Should Have Stayed Home, the staged adaptation of Tommy Taylor's viral Facebook note, How I Got Arrested and …
ONTARIO EQUITY MEMBERS: You are cordially invited to attend this year's C.A.E.A. Ontario Regional General Meeting! Where: Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario When:Â Mond…
by Michael Wheeler, As moderator of the ‘An End To Arts Funding?‘ debate at SummerWorks, it seems unethical for me to engage in any sort of critique of the arguments presented We…
by Maggie MacDonald Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), predator drones, or just plain drones: we'd better get to know them, as they are soon to know us. The use of drone strikes against suspec…
by Michael Wheeler This week SummerWorks Artistic Director Michael Rubenfeld asked me to moderate today’s debate on the question: An End to Arts Funding? Of course I agreed. It looks t…
by Michael Wheeler The Summerworks Festival has begins today here in Toronto. Already, I am definitely not going to be able to make it to everything I want to see. The lineup of “crazy…
by Nadia Ross On August 14th, as part of SummerWorks Performance Festival's Shop Talk series, I will be having a debate with journalist Andrew Coyne (Postmedia, CBC's The National) on the qu…
*Editors’ Note: We felt lucky to receive this letter from Sarah Garton Stanley a week ago. We hope you will agree it makes some salient points about lists and the quantification and qu…
Text: “bird by snow and stir by still anyone’s any was all to her” ~ e.e. cummings Image: Sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqd83kAQzlg Haley McGee is taking OH MY IRMA…
Interview by Ryan Quinn R: I'm here with Michael Wheeler and Aislinn Rose ofPraxis Theatre who are co-curating the HATCH program at the Harbourfront Center in 2014. Can you tell me a bit …
by Aislinn Rose Today I will be hosting a Tent Talk for the Toronto Fringe Festival called “Please don’t start a theatre company“, inspired by issues and ideas raised in…
by Jordan Tannahill Below is a Facebook note I wrote several days ago on the ways in which we remember and assign value to plays in Canada. In the note I suggest an 'anti-cannon' of 100 perf…
