Sunday, December 13, 2015
Frequent Praxis Theatre and Theatre Centre collaborator Laura Nanni is working with The Banff Centre to host a live screening of Civil Debates 4 – Climate Change. We’re thrille…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 04:57PMSunday, October 25, 2015
Praxis Theatre is proud to provide support to our members taking part isn ‘Sex and Violence Collective’s production of OBJECTIONS TO SEX AND VIOLENCE TICKETS WEBSITE November …
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 09:34AMWednesday, October 8, 2014
Left to Right: Aislinn Rose, Praxis Artistic Producer and Bunker Producer; Michael Wheeler, Praxis Artistic Director; Carly Chamberlain & Tanya Rintoul, NTS Directing Students. …
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 06:39AMWednesday, February 12, 2014
This April the four #HatchTO 2014 residencies at Harbourfront Centre will begin, taking over their Studio Theatre. Over the course of the next three months, all four #HatchTO projects will t…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 02:49PMMonday, December 9, 2013
Saturday morning I woke up to discover the Federal Minister of Industry, James Moore, took to Twitter to respond to one of my tweets, which he deemed “false”. It started with his…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 08:22AMMonday, November 25, 2013
by Michael Wheeler At every stop along the #G20Romp tour we have provided the same context to our participant detainees – the almost 300 Canadians from across the country who have part…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 09:46AMFriday, September 27, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpaFjNDm13k Watch the above video to hear from CCLA’s Abby Deshman Director, Public Safety Program on G20 Toronto, policing at protests and You Should…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 12:36PMMonday, August 19, 2013
by Michael Wheeler, As moderator of the ‘An End To Arts Funding?‘ debate at SummerWorks, it seems unethical for me to engage in any sort of critique of the arguments presented We…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 08:35AMWednesday, August 14, 2013
by Michael Wheeler This week SummerWorks Artistic Director Michael Rubenfeld asked me to moderate today’s debate on the question: An End to Arts Funding? Of course I agreed. It looks t…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 08:37AMThursday, August 8, 2013
by Michael Wheeler The Summerworks Festival has begins today here in Toronto. Already, I am definitely not going to be able to make it to everything I want to see. The lineup of “crazy…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 09:23AMThursday, July 4, 2013
by Jordan Tannahill Below is a Facebook note I wrote several days ago on the ways in which we remember and assign value to plays in Canada. In the note I suggest an ‘anti-cannon’ of 100 …
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 03:10PMTuesday, July 2, 2013
Tune in @ 2pm today via #HatchTO to participate in a Live Twitter Chat about Hatch 2013. Tweets about “#HatchTO”
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 08:39AMThursday, June 13, 2013
By Michael Wheeler I have been trying to figure out for a while how to explain what my role is on many of the projects I have worked on in the past five years. Although I am usually engaged …
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 10:03AMWednesday, May 8, 2013
by Michael Wheeler Spring is in the air and creative juices are flowing. Below are three videos created by local socio/political talent taking the world into their own hands and making thing…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 10:12AMMonday, April 15, 2013
by Michael Wheeler Members of two the largest national opposition parties came together to make major decisions over the weekend. In Montreal, the Official Opposition New Democrats continued…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 10:46AMFriday, February 22, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDF3mfeb06g by Michael Wheeler Ok, let us be the first one to get all the bad jokes out there: Theatre has gone to the Dogs, Theatre gets put in the Doghouse, …
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 09:57AMWednesday, February 13, 2013
by Michael Wheeler I am writing from the privileged vantage-point of someone brought up in a home where talking about feelings and mental health was not stigmatized. (Thanks Mom and Dad.) St…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 01:07PMWednesday, January 2, 2013
Text: “We were barely there. Our feelings could not be hurt because they lay elsewhere, off-campus, aurora borealis. I drew pictures of it on my binder, a smudge in a heart. A smudg…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 10:20AMFriday, December 14, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKNC8Nwzx78 by Michael Wheeler RaBIT is a grassroots initiative to change the way we vote in Toronto municipal elections to a ranked ballot. Over the past five…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 01:40PMThursday, November 29, 2012
by Michael Wheeler I haven’t seen Terminus yet – going with my Mom next week. I don’t want that to stop me from writing about it here though, as we don’t do reviews in this space…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 11:30AMFriday, November 23, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK62I-4cuSY This Onion Talk reveals some of the aspects we won’t be looking at in the workshop. by Michael Wheeler, Next week I am leading a workshop wit…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 09:00AMThursday, November 8, 2012
by Michael Wheeler Yesterday, Bill C-427 came up for second reading in Parliament. A private member’s bill proposed by the NDP’s Tyrone Benskin (previous Artistic Director of Montreal&…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 03:07PMThursday, October 25, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PVsTiNNJio by Michael Wheeler Tomorrow, The Theatre Centre will host an official TEDxToronto viewing party. This is a no-cost event with FREE LUNCH to watch a…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 10:44AMMonday, October 22, 2012
by Michael Wheeler There are two upcoming events I am organizing that emphasize conversation and online interactivity in a performative context. You are invited! One is free and includes lu…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 02:48PMWednesday, October 17, 2012
Surprise! The theatrosphere has been a busy place with a number of interesting conversations to take note of:
The Canada Council is launching “a dialogue about how the arts bring value …
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 03:43PMWednesday, October 10, 2012
After 33 years in rental spaces across the city, The Theatre Centre will break ground on its permanent home, launching a year-long renovation of the historic Carnegie Library building at 111…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 04:48PMTuesday, October 9, 2012
by Michael Wheeler After one week of intense tech, Tear The Curtain! will open to a sold out Bluma Appel Theatre tonight. Like lead character Alex Braithewaite, the show has been taken apart…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 09:39AMMonday, October 1, 2012
by Michael Wheeler Last week David Mirvish, the pre-eminent producer of for-profit Toronto theatre made two major announcements that reflect the rapidly transforming theatrical ecosystem to …
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 08:37AMThursday, September 27, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no34JqXTk8Q by Michael Wheeler Two years ago, as part of a Canada Council-supported Director in Training residency at The Tarragon Theatre, I was shipped out t…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 08:59AMTuesday, September 25, 2012
TEXT: “I understand that there’s too much! – a flawed system. The way things work is just so fucked up. I could go on and on for hours, I’ve been researching for years. I’ve ne…
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 10:06AMMonday, September 17, 2012
by Michael Wheeler This post continues my efforts as a director of Senora Carrar’s Riles to stage the piece as per Brecht’s instructions “with a documentary film showing the events in …
SOURCE: praxistheatre.com at 12:52PM 
