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Events
 Booksigning
Roger Ebert will autograph copies of the The Great Movies III
Wednesday, September 15 at 4 pm.
just published
Can't attend? Reserve your signed copy now by calling (416) 922-7175 or e-mail action@theatrebooks.com. Mr. Ebert will only sign copies purchased at TheatreBooks. Please, no memorabilia. Buy now and save 25%.
Previous events
How To Do Accents by Jan Haydn Rowles & Edda Sharpe: A Seminar with co-author Edda Sharpe
Saturday, March 27 at 2:30 pm.
 Working with an accent can be a dream or a nightmare. The pressures to get it right – to sound authentic, honest and connected – grow as audiences become more demanding and the world gets smaller. People currently have only two options: to work with a specialist dialect coach, or to buy a specific dialect ‘study tape.’
Now, in the second Revised Edition of How to Do Accents, actors are offered a new approach. The book and workshop CD provide a desperately needed, simple, reassuring method for both learning and teaching accents: a method that teaches not just one accent, but the underlying structure inherent in all accents.
‘At last! A really practical (and fun) guide to accent training. I recommend it to all actors and voice teachers’ - Jeannette Nelson, Head of Voice, National Theatre, London.
Edda Sharpe is Head of Voice and Dialect at the Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake, where she has worked on over 60 productions over the past ten years. She has also been the principal dialect teacher on the MA Voice Studies course at Central School of Speech and Drama in London, UK, for eight years. Her skills have been employed on numerous theatre productions, in the West End, throughout the UK and internationally.
Third Floor Salon, TheatreBooks, 11 St. Thomas St., Toronto. Space is limited, and registration is required. Send a message to register. Include phone contact number please.
 You Got the Part: A Casting Director Guides Actors to Successful Auditions for Film & Television
Saturday, March 13 at 2:30 pm.
by Marsha Chesley
Marsha Chesley has been a casting director for more than thirty years and has worked in every medium: feature films, movies-of-the-week, dramatic series, sitcoms, commercials and corporate videos. She is the winner of the 2009 Gemini Award for Best Achievement in Casting. For three years Marsha was Casting Director-in-Residence at the Canadian Film Centre. She teaches workshops and is called upon frequently to give seminars to actors as well as producers, directors and writers. Her book is a nationwide best seller. Third Floor Salon, TheatreBooks, 11 St. Thomas St., Toronto.
Saturday, March 6 and Sunday, March 7
Stages: Creative Ideas for Teaching Creative Drama
by Talia Pura (www.taliapura.com)
Talia Pura, a successful classroom teacher in the Manitoba public school system for several years, currently teaches drama at the University of Winnipeg. She is recognized as a highly effective organizer of drama workshops for teachers, actors and community groups. Stages is suitable for a wide range of ages and abilities. The ideas found in her book can be adapted for young children, teenagers as well as experienced actors. Talia will focus her talk on classroom teachers with & without a drama background. Third floor salon, TheatreBooks, 11 St. Thomas St., Toronto.
 Playwright Canada Press Fall Launch Party
Hosted by Jon Kaplan and Susan G. Cole of NOW Magazine
Monday, November 2, Doors at 7 pm.
at The Rivoli, 334 Queen Street West, Toronto
Reading from newly published plays
- Natascha Girgis, Beth Graham and Daniela Vlaskalic
- Stephen Massicotte
- Daniel David Moses
- Sunil Kuruvilla
- Don Hannah
- David Ferry
Books on sale through TheatreBooks. Admission and food are free.
Scirocco Drama presents a book launch and an evening of readings
with special hosts Sue Miner and Mark Brownell
Monday, October 19 at 7:30 pm.
Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto
Featuring
- Innocence Lost: A play about Steven Truscott - Beverley Cooper
- Bittergirl - The Bittergirls (Annabel Fitzsimmons, Alison Lawrence, Mary Francis Moore)
- Courting Johanna - Marcia Johnson
- And Up They Flew - Martha Ross
- Chapel Arm - Step Taylor
 Larry Moss Workshop
July 22-25, 2009
Acclaimed acting coach Larry Moss, author of The Intent to Live, is returning to Toronto to teach a 4 day intensive workshop. For more information, please contact Jennifer at jlg604@yahoo.ca or visit www.larrymoss.org.
The Intent to Live
Inviting you to join him in the classroom and onstage, Larry Moss shares the techniques he has developed over thirty years to help actors set their emotions and imagination on fire, resulting in performances that are powerful, authentic, and career changing. Softcover, 358 pp. $21.00.
 Albert Schultz In Conversation with playwright David French
Sunday, June 28, 3 pm.
TheatreBooks Third Floor Salon (not wheelchair accessible)
To mark the publication, for the first time in one volume, of Leaving Home, Of The Fields Lately and Salt Water Moon: Three Mercer Plays and the Soulpepper production of Of The Fields Lately, please join us for an intimate conversation between one of Canada's most gifted playwrights, David French and the visionary Soulpepper Artistic Director, Albert Schultz, as they discuss the background sources of David's timeless dramas about the Mercer family
Attend the event and you'll have a chance to win a pair of tickets to the Soulpepper production. No purchase necessary. The Mercer Plays now available in softcover, $24.95.
No admission, but reservations required. Space very limited. To reserve, phone TheatreBooks (416) 922-7175 M-F 10-7; Sa 10-6; Su 12-5 OR e-mail action@theatrebooks - please indicate Mercer Plays in subject line.
 In Spite of Myself: A Memoir
An Evening with Christopher Plummer
In Conversation with Gordon Pinsent
Monday May 11 at 7:30 pm.
MacMillan Theatre, Edward Johnson Building
80 Queen's Park ( Behind the Planetarium)
Advance tickets now available at TheatreBooks $35.00 ( Visa / Mastercard ) Phone (416) 922-7175 or at TheatreBooks, 11 St. Thomas St.
Door tickets $40.00 (Cash only / day of event)
Reception to follow. Mr. Plummer will sign copies of his book. Books available now, $37.00 + GST. Presented by Sheila Hawks & Wendy Steepe in association with Knopf Canada. Download the poster / Download the ticket application form.
 Book Launch
Meet author Janice Pomer (Perpetual Motion ) who will talk about her newest book, Dance Composition - An Interrelated Arts Approach with music CD.
Sunday, February 15, 2 to 4 pm.
TheatreBooks, Third Floor
Dance Composition will help students and teachers in secondary school and college programs create artistic work that inspires and empowers both performers and viewers.
The book and accompanying CD feature 28 improvisational exercises that provide persepctive on the shared characteristics among the arts leading to inspiration and motivation for dance making from a multi-disciplinary perspective.The book is divided into three section: Dance and the Visual Arts; Dance and Music; Dance and the Dramatic and Literary Arts with culminating exercises ending each section.
Totally user friendly, the book also offers a General Arts Glossary, a Music Glossary and a Music Finder. The accompanying CD contains original compositions that enrich the dance exercises and movement exploration.
A Special Presentation
Mad About the Boy: A Taste of Coward
 Sunday, January 11 at 2 pm. at TheatreBooks
With ensemble members Patty Jamieson and Thom Marriott or Fiona Byrne and Graeme Somerville
The Shaw brings you this special presentation of Mad About the Boy, a compilation of works by Noël Coward. Mad About the Boy consists of songs, a revue sketch from London Calling, a scene from Private Lives and two scenes from Tonight at 8:30: the first from Still Life, well-known as the movie Brief Encounter, and the second from Ways and Means. Admission is free. Download the PDF.
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