Ontario Off Stage

Behind The Scenes At Ontario’s Theatres

• The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts is holding an open Indie Caucus event on March 6 at 7pm—as Aislinn Ross shares on praxistheatre.com, they’ll be talking about joint marketing initiatives, an indie mentoring program, and other issues anyone might bring to the table

Conversations

• “Art is not carpeting. It’s not sold by the foot.  The experience isn’t better or worse depending on the length of the show.” – from Sue Edworthy’s “You Can’t Spell Carpet Without A-R-T – but Art isn’t Carpet”

From The Wire

• Canadian Stage is hosting two free play readings of short plays by Oriza Hirata today and tomorrow at 4pm
• Heather Young, who received last year’s Sandra Tulloch Award for Innovation in Arts and Culture, was profiled in Metro as one of the “faces of innovation in Canada”

Migrations

• Nina Lee Aquino and Nigel Shawn Williams were appointed as Co-Artistic Directors of Factory Theatre

TO Toasts

• Congratulations to all of the nominees for the 2012 Prix Rideau Awards
• Robert Lepage was awarded the tenth Glenn Gould Prize

Assembled by Brandon Moore, Communications Coordinator