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Spring 2013
An Actor’s life for me
Alberta actors in the spotlight
- READ: Role of a Lifetime by you - 12 of our favourite entries to our Role of a Lifetime contest.
- ONLINE: Read all 42 entries submitted by Albertan actors! (Which one is your favourite?)
- READ: Casting Confidential by Chris Bullough and Vanessa Porteous – a frank actor-to-AD discussion about casting.
- ONLINE: Casting Confidential – Unedited: due to space constraints, we only published a quarter of Chris and Vanessa’s conversation in All Stages. Get the full discussion here!
- READ: The Process – Hometown… The Musical! documented by Russell Thomas – an inside look at performing in the largest production in Keyano Theatre’s history.
- ONLINE: Check out this photo essay showcasing key moments from the 2013 production of Hometown… The Musical!
Also featuring:
- Emerge At 10 by Ellen Chorley – Theatre Alberta is celebrating its 10th anniversary of Emerge, an annual audition event introducing post-secondary acting grads to the province’s Artistic Directors. An Emerge veteran (and self-professed superfan) looks back at the program.
- Classical Training and the Contemporary Actor by James MacDonald and The Body and the Contemporary Performer by Lin Snelling – complimentary pieces examining how Alberta trains her actors… and perhaps how it should do so differently.
- Theatre for Young Audiences: Tour Survival 101 by Jacqueline Russell – Eight simple but vital steps to help our province’s actors survive (and perhaps even enjoy) the compulsory TYA tour.
- Q2Q – Acting Technicians - Scott Peters profiles two Albertan performers that have integrated theatre technology into the creation and performance of new work.
- Opinion – Acting As It Was by Joyce Doolittle and Grant Reddick – two icons of Alberta theatre reflect upon their careers.
- Plus Curious Ground, Community Profile and more!
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Previous Issues
Winter 2012 - Download the complete issue [2.0 MB]
corporate/culture
The collision of public theatre and private business in alberta
- Theatre Artists Find Big Support from Small Businesses by Judith Mendelsohn
- Birds of a Feather by Simon Mallett and Steve Pirot
- Organizational Storytelling by Dan Perry
- Changing the Conversation by Trevor Rueger
- Q2Q – Friends with Benefits by Scott Peters
- Sides - Apocalypse Prairie by The Groove Cooperative and Good Fences by The Downstage Creation Ensemble.
- Opinion – Can We Compete? by Dale Turri.
- Plus Curious Ground, Community Profiles and more!
- Plus online content – click here to view!
Fall 2012 – Download the complete issue [2.7 MB]
Theatre Outreach
Out Of The Rehearsal Hall and Among The People
- Reaching Out by Mari Sasano
- Doctor’s Orders by Dale Lee Kwong
- NOISE! by Catherine Medynski
- The Alberta Avenue Oral History Project by Kristen M. Finlay
- The Process – Acting Out Community: The Canola Project - by Lynda Adams
- Q2Q – Community to Community - by Scott Peters
- Sides - Just Keep Breathing by Timothy J. Anderson.
- Opinion – Socially-Engaged Theatre: What’s In It For Us? by Jane Heather
- Plus online content – click here to view!
Spring 2012 - Download the complete issue [3.4 MB]
Musical Theatre In Alberta
ASSESSING THE STATE OF THE ART
- The State of the Art by David van Belle
- Tune Up! by Julie Sinclair
- A Prairie Dame Takes New York by Onalea Gilbertson
- Laying The Foundation by Kristen M. Finlay
- The Process: Alberta Opera’s Pinocchio by Farren Timoteo
- Q2Q – Making New ‘Memories’ by Scott Peters
- Opinion – The Egg by Kris Demeanor
- Plus online content – click here to view!
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