When I sat down recently with Michael Khashmanian, founder and artistic director of Beech Street Theatre Company, I expected to learn about the history of a theatre company that has […]
One of the great gifts of living in the Durham Region is that meaningful, challenging, and genuinely adventurous theatre is not something we have to travel downtown Toronto to find.
Featured image: Header image from the official Lynn Slotkin website. Those of us who love community theatre in the Durham Region are often, by nature, theatrelovers in the fullest sense.
Community theatre is one of those remarkable spaces where ordinary people do extraordinary things. It’s built on passion rather than paycheques, commitment rather than contracts, and a shared belief that storytelling — live, in person, and together — is something worth showing up for.
When I signed on as Props Lead for Ajax Community Theatre’s production of Having Hope at Home, I wasn’t entirely sure what I was getting myself into. I knew props mattered. I knew they supported the story. But I didn’t fully understand just how much storytelling, collaboration, improvisation, and ingenuity lived in that one backstage role — until I was right in the middle of it.
There’s a moment after every production — after the final bow, after the applause settles, after the set is struck and the props are boxed — when everything suddenly goes
