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by Michael Lyons
on November 14th, 2013
in Gay Heritage Salon
All month long, Buddies is hosting a blog salon with some our favourite writers and artists responding to one question: How do I connect with my queer heritage? Follow the conversation on our blog, or join the conversation on Facebook …
by Ryan G Hinds
on November 12th, 2013
in Gay Heritage Salon
All month long, Buddies is hosting a blog salon with some our favourite writers and artists responding to one question: How do I connect with my queer heritage? Follow the conversation on our blog, or join the conversation on Facebook …
by Brendan Healy
on October 31st, 2013
in Columns, Uncategorized
Our artistic director, Brendan Healy, offers some thoughts on the question “Why Theatre?”. With each production that I create, each new play that I workshop, and each play that I read, I begin with the question, why theatre? Allow me …
by Buddies
on October 21st, 2013
in Insatiable Sisters
As we prepare to bring Strange Sisters back to the stage, Kim Crosby and Gein Wong caught up with some of the past curators to share their thoughts on this iconic institution. Watch the videos below for brief interviews with …
by Michael Lyons
on October 17th, 2013
in Dinner at Seven Thirty
“If life has a base that it stands upon, if it is a bowl that one fills and fills and fills– then my bowl without a doubt stands upon this memory. It is of lying half asleep, half awake, in …
by Zach Pearl
on October 9th, 2013
in Dinner at Seven Thirty
Before I moved to Toronto, I lived in Minneapolis for eight years. Although it’s not my birthplace, it’s definitely where I was born. My hometown of Norwalk, Iowa was a wholesome and cordial place to grow up… if you were …
by Aurora Stewart de Pena
on October 1st, 2013
in PIG, Response
One of our artists-in-residence, Birdtown and Swanville’s Aurora Stewart de Pena, was in the audience for PIG on opening night and after some time, has this to say. If I hear the word “Wellness” one more time, I’m going to …
by Buddies
on September 30th, 2013
in PIG
Board member, academic, and general good-person-to-talk-to-about-theatre Paul Halferty sat down with PIG playwright Tim Luscombe for a conversation about writing, sex, death, audience expectations, hook-ups, and pretty much everything else. And because it was so hard to edit it down to …
by Brendan Healy
on September 26th, 2013
in Notes, PIG
Brendan’s head has been living inside the world of Tim Luscombe’s PIG for many months and more. What follows are some of his personal reactions to the process and a collection of thoughts and memories that have occurred to him …
by Glad Day Bookshop
on September 24th, 2013
in PIG, Reading List
Our good friends at Glad Day Bookshop – the world’s oldest LGBTQ Book Store – know just about as much as there is to know about queer literature. Throughout our 2012/13 Season, folks from Glad Day will help you dig …