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Best wishes to PuSh Festival Executive Director Norman Armour for a full and speedy recovery after his collapse Saturday night at a PuSh event. Yikes, Norman! These are exciting times for theatre and dance in Our Town—maybe a little too exciting—as The PuSh Festival moves into its final week with openings of five shows from New Zealand, Argentina, the Netherlands, Vancouver, and the one we’re most excited about, Toronto’s Native Earth Performing Arts: Daniel David Moses’ Almighty Voice and his Wife, presented by Touchstone and Pi Theatre at the Waterfront. Continuing at PuSh are Bill Richardson and Veda Hille’s fantastic Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata, already held over through mid-February at the Arts Club’s Revue Stage, and Eat the Street from Toronto’s Mammalian Diving Reflex in various Gastown venues. Red continues at the Playhouse and Gunmetal Blues at the Playhouse Recital Hall. Duet for One plays on at Jericho Arts Centre, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) at the Metro, the Arts Club’s touring production of Don Quixote stops in Mission and Coquitlam, and Rumble’s Attack Labs are all over the city. The week also sees five major openings outside PuSh. The Arts Club’s Calendar Girls opens at the Stanley, Tracey Powers’ Chelsea Hotel: The Words and Music of Leonard Cohen at the Firehall, Robert Chafe’s terrific Newfoundland drama Tempting Providence (a previous PuSh show) at the Gateway, Julius Caesar, directed by Scott Bellis, at Studio 58, and Traces, a new show in French from Théâtre la Seizième at Studio 16. Local actor-director William B. (Bill) Davis has written an excellent memoir titled Where There’s Smoke: Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man, published by ECW Press. It’s an eye-opening revelation of this guy’s amazing career in North America and Britain with a great deal of information about the development of professional theatre in Canada—not to mention juicy stuff about The X-Files. Highly recommended. The book is available at http://www.ecwpress.com/books/where-theres-smoke or http://www.williambdavis.com. Tops & Bottoms, the queer improv show from The Bobbers comedy troupe, plays every Monday at 7 pm at the J Lounge 1216 Bute St. Free admission. To reserve, call 604-609-6665. CALLBOARD Solo Collective Theatre, in partnership with the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company, announces the eighth-annual Emerging Playwrights Competition. Three winning monologues and/or dual character scripts will be selected from contest entries, to be presented at Solo Flights, the annual Emerging Writers’ Showcase, in April/May of 2012. Entries must be postmarked by this Friday, Feb. 3. For details go to www.solocollective.ca. Newman & Wright Theatre Company is seeking a Front of House/Box Office Manager and a Stage Manager/Technical Director for their summer theatre in Barkerville. Submission deadlines Feb. 10. For information contact producers Richard Wright (wright@theatreroyal.ca) or Amy Newman (ain@plankroad.ca).
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