Announcements
New Toronto Theatre Company StageWorks Now Performing Sondheim’s “Into The Woods”
From Press Release
A not-for-profit theatre company dedicated to bringing dynamic theatre productions to Toronto audiences, StageWorks Toronto is pleased to announce its inaugural musical production, Into The Woods – playing at the Annex Theatre – 730 Bathurst Street – from August 18-21, 2011.
The Lab Cab Festival Celebrates its 6th Year
From press release
On September 3rd and 4th 2011, the Lab Cab Festival celebrates its sixth year at the Factory Theatre. Music, dance, theatre, film, poetry, kids stuff, clown, multi-media, visual art and comedy are presented in the basement, washrooms, lounges, stairwells, theatres, lobbies, rehearsal hall, carpentry shop, courtyard, parking lot and greenrooms of the 142 year old building. The best part? Free admission, free child care, and free pancakes!
The Lab Cab Festival is a free community event. The mandate of the Lab Cab Festival is to provide a home for various artistic disciplines to experiment with new work in a fun and supportive environment. Over fifty performance groups from various artistic disciplines will perform work between 5 and 30 minutes.
Announcement: Lysistrata (Canopy Theatre Company) Extreme Weather Cancellation today.
By admin
MEDIA ADVISORY – July 21, 2011
EXTREME WEATHER CANCELLATION
Due to the extreme heat warning issued for the city of Toronto, we will be cancelling the performance for this evening: Thursday July 21, 2011.
Best of Fringe Uptown! at the Toronto Centre for the Arts
By Sonia Borkar
This delightful juried festival invites the best performances of the Fringe Festival, uptown to the Toronto Centre for the Arts for bonus performances. In a single night you will be able to see two very different performances. Tickets are $15 and the full list of shows is available now at www.tocentre.com Tickets can be purchased through the Toronto Centre of the Arts website, and not through the Toronto Fringe Festival Box Office.
Here are the 11 shows that have been selected for the Best of Fringe:
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Patron’s Picks for 2011 Toronto Fringe Fest – get tickets to those shows that kept selling out!
By Megan Mooney
Each of the festival’s 13 main venues has a Patron’s Pick. It is determined by the show that sells the most tickets to their show over the course of the festival. Unlike during the rest of the festival, where only 50% of the tickets are available for advance sale, For the Patron’s Pick, 100% of tickets can be sold in advance, so make sure to buy your tickets early. They’re on sale now, and you buy them just like any other advance tickets at the Fringe.
All the patron’s picks are Sunday evening, a listing of the time in each venue is in bold in the Sunday section of the Master Schedule.
See below for a listing of all the patron’s picks:
Advertise with MoT for the rest of Fringe – Bargain Basement Prices…
By Megan Mooney
So, I’ve been too busy getting set up for Fringe to do anything about advertising during Fringe on Mooney on Theatre this year. But I really really want to have local advertizing on Mooney on Theatre instead of Google Ads. Google ads is make me a surprising amount of money, apparently I have a really good click-through rate, but I don’t have the control I want. I want to feature local businesses and arts organizations if I can.
Mooney on Theatre is completely volunteer run, but our ads pay for administrative costs (hosting, publicity stuff, business cards etc).
This would be an excellent time to advertise printing services, headshots, rehersal spaces, upcoming shows, general arts organizations and companies things like that.
With that in mind, I’m offering super super super cheap prices for ads for this week, where we expect to get about 50,000 hits (we got almost 40,000 in the first week, and Fringe didn’t start until Wednesday night).
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Mooney on Theatre Commenting Policy
By Megan Mooney
We invite and encourage conversation on Mooney on Theatre. Thoughtful conversation. Conversation that helps to develop a more complete picture of the play (or dance, or opera or whatever) in question. Heck, we love getting them. Anytime people are talking theatre I’m a happy camper.
I love the conversations, and to help make them as productive, interesting and revealing as possible, I have some commenting guidelines. Unfortunately, up until now, those guidelines have been bouncing around in my head. It’s time for me to actually put down some type of commenting policy in writing for Mooney on Theatre.
The short version is basically Submit stuff that furthers the conversation, and be nice.
Some context and the longer more detailed version follows:
The rumours are true! We’re giving away free tickets to Toronto Fringe shows!
By Megan Mooney
Today will mark the first in our daily posts giving away free tickets to Toronto Fringe Productions.
The contests will be posted daily from today until July 15 (for shows from July 6 to 17).
I’m doing this quick preamble post just to let you know how it’s come about. But then later this afternoon I will post the first of the contests.
National Arts Centre Foundation honours Peter Herrndorf by creating $1.2 million CEO’s National Fund in support of performing arts programs across Canada
From press release:
Ottawa, Canada – The National Arts Centre Foundation today honoured the longtime, visionary leader of the National Arts Centre (NAC) by creating a $1.2 million CEO’s National Fund in support of the Centre’s performing arts programs across Canada.
Index of Toronto Fringe Press Releases
By Megan Mooney
So that this stays easy-to-access while you’re planning for the Toronto Fringe Festival, this is a “sticky post” with a link to the index of Fringe Press Releases we’ve received.