Call for submissions: 2012 Next Stage Theatre Festival
Read details below and/or click here for full application information.

NSTF showcases new and reworked productions by eight of the hottest independent theatre companies who have previously produced an artistically successful production at a Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals member festival. In four years, Next Stage has received critical acclaim and established strong resources for independent companies looking to reach a wider audience and present their work in a more professional light than the summer festival model.

Next Stage Theatre Festival Eligibility

* Applicant(s) (company, primary contact or playwright) must have previously produced an artistically successful production in a Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals’ member festival.
* New original plays, remounted or reworked productions, original adaptations and site specific proposals are eligible BUT proposals of work by renowned international playwrights (eg. Beckett, Shakespeare) are not eligible.

NSTF is interested in projects from emerging and established theatre artists who are developing new work and/or exploring new artistic avenues. Preference will be given to artists who have received artistic or critical success with a previous production and could use this performance opportunity to maintain their artistic momentum. We encourage applications from artists who are including a variety of genres such as movement, musicals, opera, etc.

What will Companies GET If Accepted into the Festival:
* 9 performances over the course of the festival (making productions Dora Award eligible for TAPA members).
* A venue (100 or 200 seats) equipped with basic lighting and sound. Each company will have a maximum of four lighting specials.
* The festival will provide one technician who will operate the lighting board. We require companies to supply a stage manager to call their show and run sound.
* A 5-6 hour technical rehearsal.
* All front of house, box office and festival event publicity services.
* Some financial assistance for rehearsal space and access to a professional lighting designer, as well as some assistance with TAPA membership fees.
* Limited travel assistance for national or international artists.
* There is no participation fee for successful candidates
* Participating companies will receive 70% of the box office revenue generated by their performances (less any applicable taxes or service charges). Ticket prices range from $12-15 with some festival pass options.

APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN
The Application Deadline is Friday May 27th 2011, 5:00 PM
Full application information is available at http://fringetoronto.com/nstf/nstf_apply.html

2012 marks the fifth installation of The Next Stage Theatre Festival, presented by The Toronto Fringe. NSTF runs in the first weeks of January, exact dates TBC

Posted: April 6th, 2011 under 2010 May Newsletter.
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CLAY & PAPER THEATRE Call for Submissions – Day of Delight

The 8th annual Day of Delight – a celebration of love, courtship and desire – is set to lustfully unfold at Dufferin Grove Park on the afternoon of Sunday June 20, 2010.

CLAY & PAPER THEATRE are seeking sexy collaborators of all artistic disciplines to contribute works on themes of Love, Courtship and Desire, within the context and tradition of outdoor performance in public space. This includes theatre, music, dance, spectacle, poetry, installation, puppetry!

Offerings can be large or small, new or old – but must be focused on themes of love, courtship and desire. Works of about 15 minutes in length seem to work best.

Deadline for Submissions: Friday April 23 at 5 PM.
Please submit your proposal to clayandpaper@sympatico.ca
MORE INFORMATION – CLICK HERE

Posted: April 5th, 2011 under 2010 May Newsletter.
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DanceMakers
PROJECT 3/2/1
A trio, a duet, a solo

Choreography Antonija Livingstone, Martin Bélanger and Ame Henderson

Three choreographers. Six dancers. One bold – and slightly crazy – proposal.
What happens when you make a dance that has a new cast every night?
No two shows will be the same…

WHEN: April 5 to 17, 2011
Tuesday through Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 4pm
HOW MUCH: Single Tickets: $18 to $25, Four Ticket Flex Pass: $60 to $80
Tuesday performances PWYC
TO BOOK: Box Office: 416-367-1800 |dancemakers.org
WHERE: Dancemakers Centre for Creation in the Distillery, 55 Mill Street, The Cannery Building 58, # 313

Posted: March 2nd, 2011 under 2010 May Newsletter.
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FULL STOP
movement.media.mix.
MARCH 15 – 20, 2011
featuring Marie-Josée Chartier, Colin Edwards, Tina Fushell, Luke Garwood
directed by Rebecca Picherack
screening by Peter Chin & Nick de Pencier

Following the overwhelming success of hub14’s inaugural presenting series, Under A Paper Moon in February 2010, we are pleased to announce that hub14 is curating it’s 2nd Annual winter show.

FULL STOP is a new site-specific dance work inspired by and including the Gemini Award winning dance-film Streetcar (2004).

Tuesday March 15 – Sunday March 20, 2011
8 pm. @ hub14, 14 Markham Street
Tickets: $22/$18 CADA
Purchase Tickets: hub14fullstop.eventbrite.com
Info: info@hub14.org

hub14 supports dance and related arts through residency, presenting, and core programming. www.hub14.org

Posted: March 1st, 2011 under 2010 May Newsletter.
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As part of its “Théâtre de Poche” cycle, Alliance Française of Toronto is proud to present a theatrical premiere:

Coups d’archet
A dramatic reading of texts by Pascal Quignard
by the Théâtre La Tangente, with Raymond Accolas and Louise Naubert, with cello accompaniment

The Théâtre la Tangente will present dramatic readings of exerpts from Le Petit Cupidon, and the tales Ethelrude et Wolframm and L’Enfant au visage couleur de la mort, by celebrated French author Pascal Quignard. In these intoxicating and passionate pages, life and death travel side by side.

Born in France in 1948, Pascal Quignard has published over 70 works in many genres: novels, essays, reflexions, tales. He received the Prix Goncourt for Les Ombres errantes (2002) and the Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie française for Terrasse à Rome (2000). Himself a cellist, Quignard created and chaired the Festival international d’opéra et de théâtre baroques at Versailles.

The Théâtre la Tangente specializes in hybrid creation projects, which combine theatre, music, dance and video.

WHEN: Thursday, March 10, 2011, 7:30pm
WHERE: Alliance Française de Toronto, Pierre-Léon Gallery, 24 Spadina Road
HOW MUCH: Free admission. In French.
MORE INFO: www.alliance-francaise.ca

Posted: March 1st, 2011 under 2010 May Newsletter.
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Our friends at ATSA, Annie Roy and Pierre Allard, return to Toronto from June 3 to July 24.

To celebrate its 10 years of existence, ATSA immerses itself in the marketing universe, becoming a willing guinea pig for the opening of a temporary “pop-up shop” named CHANGE. Launched in Montreal in Fall 2008, this interdisciplinary intervention is setting out to tour !

CHANGE takes place at Free Gallery of Toronto

CHANGE is also an on-line experience, where each product featured is associated with an engaged intervention.

CLICK here for more information.

Posted: May 25th, 2010 under 2010 May Newsletter.
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Cream Tangerine Gallery and Cafe located at the front of The Theatre Centre will be showing all the matches from South Africa starting in June. All the finest talent from country to country competing in the world cup footy!!!

Schedule is available in the cafe so come to support the lads. Full english breakfast and coffee for daytime matches and dinner and drinks in the evening.

Viva and long live…

Click here to visit Cream Tangerine website.
Cream Tangerine, 1087 Queen Street West, Toronto (front of The Theatre Centre)

Posted: May 21st, 2010 under 2010 May Newsletter.
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Posted: May 21st, 2010 under 2010 May Newsletter.
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June 17 + 18, 2010
Eldritch Theatre presents DOC WUTHERGLOOM’S – HAUNTED MEDICINE SHOW

Gasp in horror as a 138 year old traveling exorcist regales you with tales of terror, vile phantoms and the macabre! Coil back in shock as you hear the chilling exploits of his life and the ghostly tales of those he has known…

… Performed by the old Doctor himself with the aid of his Cabal of Chilling Puppets, an ancient ukulele, and a cavalcade of Dark Parlour Magic!

This sneak preview of Eldritch Theatre’s new work will be performed for two nights only! Only thirty tickets will be sold!

Directed by Melody Johnson, Puppets & story by Eric Woolfe, Magical Consultation by Mike Segal, Performed by Doc Wuthergloom Himself!

LOCATION – le Salon Secret…you will only find out where if you attend.
TICKETS -visit www.eldritchtheatre.ca

Posted: May 21st, 2010 under 2010 May Newsletter.
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Applications are now open for City of Craft 2010!

City of Craft is a two-day indie craft fair (with related exhibitions) held in the heart of Queen West West in Toronto.

Application information and online submission form can be found here – http://cityofcraft.com/2010/cityofcraft/apply.html

Deadline: August 31, 2010, MIDNIGHT EST

Show Details:
December 18+19, 2010: Saturday 11:00am-6:00pm, Sunday 11:00am-5:00pm
The Theatre Centre and Cream Tangerine, 1087 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON

Posted: May 21st, 2010 under 2010 May Newsletter.
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