John Bartley News

In a first for arts education in Victoria, VCE Theatre Studies will be available online in 2020, and VCE Drama in 2021, thanks to a partnership between Melbourne Theatre Company and Virtual School Victoria (VSV).

Today, the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television announced the nominees for the 2014 Canadian Screen Awards (CSA) and Take 5 Productions, an industry leader in high-quality international television production, received a record 18 nominations for The Borgias, Vikings, and World Without End. The Canadian Screen Awards recognize excellence in film, television and digital media productions and will be presented in a live broadcast on Sunday, March 9, 2014.

To help our community during the holiday season, ArtsWest will be collecting food for The West Seattle Food Bank during the run of PLAID TIDINGS, from December 2-27.

Dreaming of a Plaid Christmas? You're in luck: The hilarious, heavenly quartet is back by popular demand, singing swingin', jingle-bell-ringin' holiday favorites! PLAID TIDINGS, a holiday follow-up to the international sensation Forever Plaid, runs at ArtsWest December 2-27.

To help our community during the holiday season, ArtsWest will be collecting food for The West Seattle Food Bank during the run of PLAID TIDINGS, from December 2-27.

Dreaming of a Plaid Christmas? You're in luck: The hilarious, heavenly quartet is back by popular demand, singing swingin', jingle-bell-ringin' holiday favorites! PLAID TIDINGS, a holiday follow-up to the international sensation Forever Plaid, runs at ArtsWest December 2-27.

To help our community during the holiday season, ArtsWest will be collecting food for The West Seattle Food Bank during the run of PLAID TIDINGS, from December 2-27.

Dreaming of a Plaid Christmas? You're in luck: The hilarious, heavenly quartet is back by popular demand, singing swingin', jingle-bell-ringin' holiday favorites! PLAID TIDINGS, a holiday follow-up to the international sensation Forever Plaid, runs at ArtsWest December 2-27.

Dreaming of a Plaid Christmas? You're in luck: The hilarious, heavenly quartet is back by popular demand, singing swingin', jingle-bell-ringin' holiday favorites! PLAID TIDINGS, a holiday follow-up to the international sensation Forever Plaid, runs at ArtsWest December 2-27.

ArtsWest starts the 2009-10 season with DEAD MAN'S CELL PHONE, a wildly imaginative new work from Sarah Ruhl, the playwright behind The Clean House and Eurydice. When Jean answers the cell phone of the corpse at the next table, she unwittingly embarks on a quirky odyssey that takes her from grief to the black market to the afterlife. With unfailing empathy, she sets the dead man's bizarre life to rights and on the way resurrects her own. ArtsWest favorite Carol Roscoe returns to direct this Seattle Premiere.

For 2009-2010 ArtsWest has created a stimulating, conversation-inducing six-play season featuring 4 Seattle Premieres - including another World Premiere through their partnership with the National New Play Network - and the return of the smash holiday hit Plaid Tidings.

So far at this evening's Emmy Awards, theater stars Jeremy Piven, Dianne Wiest, Laura Linney, Dame Eileen Atkins and Zeljko Ivanek are among the winners.

Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story, a dramatic musical about two of the most infamous murderers of the 20th century, opens at ArtsWest Feb. 28 with the playwright and composer Stephen Dolginoff in one of the two lead roles.