Category Archives: PSA

Hungry before Shadowlands?

Just finished talking with Dorothy and the folks at the Embassy Bar & Grill.  They’re right across the street from KWLT, facing King Street. She’s offering a 10% discount (excepting alcohol) to all TenBareToes patrons upon providing proof (tickets or a print out of your ticket confirmation email) for the night of the performance you [...]

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Acting workshop filling fast

If you haven’t emailed Karen about a place in the acting workshop, you’ll want to do that ASAP.  As of her email this afternoon, there are less than a half-dozen spots left for the workshop.  

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Shadowlands director Karen Grierson presents Bridges 1: Actors/Directors Skills Workshop

KWLT‘s Karen Grierson and Obsidian Theatre‘s Philip Akin present, Bridges 1: Actors/Directors Skills Workshop Philip Akin, award-winning Artistic Director and General Manager of Toronto’s Obsidian Theatre, is leading this one-day workshop for amateur actors and directors. Having worked with KWLT’s Karen Grierson as a polisher for 2007′s “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead” and 2011′s “Frankenstein”, [...]

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Directing workshop is full

To my somewhat stunned amazement, the workshop is full. It’s been…2 days… since we announced it and there’s been wonderful response.  I’m really excited & looking forward to the workshop and working with the attendees on developing their ideas for their plays. The folks at KWLT are happy as well and the Executive Producer and [...]

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Evidently, we’re getting known

So I got an email today.  If nothing else, it’s a start to being more visible as a theatre company – I got asked to pass on to my actors a lead for a paying gig in town.  I’d love to take advantage of this myself, but the real world doesn’t permit me this time. [...]

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Advance ticket deadline coming up

Just a quick reminder for you to grab your tickets for our upcoming production of Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple, opening April 14 at the Kitchener-Waterloo Little Theatre. Details on our website. Tickets are $13 until the end of the month – after that, they’re $18, so get your tickets early! If you have any [...]

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For a moment, plugging a friend’s work

From Kitchener-Waterloo Little Theatre, and going on for 3 weeks in March/early April, friends of mine are doing Tim Kelly’s dramatization of Shelley’s Frankenstein. This is their trailer. Karen is a good friend and I love watching what she does as a director. This will be awesome. Go to www.kwlt.org for more details and to [...]

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Just for the record?

I get some of the strangest spam here…I’m not sure why they think that I’ll let it through, but the one I just got had porn, religion and the oddest rambly story to it. I have to give them credit for trying to be original?  Still don’t have to approve them. Now, sleep time…

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Audition forms online now!

Planning on coming to the Odd Couple auditions? You can fill in your audition form online to save yourself time! (My stage manager is all kinds of awesome for getting this done!)

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Resources

As promised, the handouts from the recent workshops! From the Props & gripping workshop: Sample Props prep list – how to prepare for a show as props – notes are your friend Sample Grips set change list – document everything about who’s moving what to where from where. From the Set design workshop: Set Design [...]

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