Tetsuro Shigematsu

Theatre Artist | Broadcaster | PhD Candidate | Huffington Post Columnist | Troublemaker

[Tetsuro Shigematsu @tweetsuro]

Do you want FREE tickets? Do you want to see the BEST actors in the city in all their dazzling versatility? Come celebrate the new works of Vancouver’s next generation of playwrights. https://t.co/5bn3Bw2Yb4

[Tetsuro Shigematsu @tweetsuro]

There’s much to love about the Arts Club LEAP program: collaborating with unnervingly talented young playwrights, AND getting to BEST actors in Vancouver to bring them to life.

[Tetsuro Shigematsu @tweetsuro]

People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than ... a world without end. Hope locates itself in the premises that we don't know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act" - Rebecca Solnit

[Tetsuro Shigematsu @tweetsuro]

It’s official. PEI is my favourite place in Canada. Thank you everyone for being so nice to me.

[Tetsuro Shigematsu @tweetsuro]

I'm in PEI to deliver a keynote on how theatres can engage their rapidly growing immigrant communities. Name me a STRONG Canadian play that would appeal to either...
1) Mandarin-speaking Chinese,
2) or Punjabi-speaking Indians,
3) or Filipinos.
All these groups can speak English

[Tetsuro Shigematsu @tweetsuro]

2 Saturdays, 2 fundraisers. just your friendly neighborhood MC. Delighted to be reunited with my CBC pal, Margret Gallagher. Congrats to David for 50 years of TG! And to Keiko for smashing your fundraising goals. #sakuragala #tonarigumi

[Tetsuro Shigematsu @tweetsuro]

Join us on Saturday, August 31st, from 2-4 PM at the Japanese Language School for a fun, hands-on Okonomiyaki cooking class! 🥓 No skills required—just come hungry! Tickets are $40 ($25 for GVJCCA members). Learn, cook, eat, and enjoy! 😋

https://t.co/LU4nHjsxp2

[Tetsuro Shigematsu @tweetsuro]

My son and I are teaching a Japanese cooking class on the last day of August. Come join us!

https://t.co/lqj9pGfAZ0

[Tetsuro Shigematsu @tweetsuro]

Join us for the Club Theatre Company LEAP Fest. Last night’s opening was an explosion of talent, come tonight to see Level 2, and Sunday for the World Premiere of Mothboy, best new Canadian play I've read in years. Did I mention these events are FREE??
https://t.co/vGeZh3qVik

[Tetsuro Shigematsu @tweetsuro]

Dance legend Denise H. Fujiwara show, #Eunoia at the Firehall Arts Centr starring my friend Mayumi Lashbrook Lashbrook is transcendent. Only a few performances left. Catch it while you can.
https://t.co/KALklokqma

[Tetsuro Shigematsu @tweetsuro]

See the BEST actors in the city performing the newest plays from some of Vancouver’s youngest, most talented playwrights. It's the LEAP program!
May 17-19, 7pm on the Newmont Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre.
rsvp at the arts club website!

[Tetsuro Shigematsu @tweetsuro]

These are Fraser Heights students in Surrey, where I grew up. They're putting on ‘Kuroko’, the only play I ever wrote that my teenage son admitted to enjoying. ONE NIGHT ONLY
Friday, May 10th.
16060 108th Ave. Surrey
Show starts at 7:30.
Tickets are $7

[Tetsuro Shigematsu @tweetsuro]

As any playwright will tell you, there’s nothing like the first time. The first time you hear the dialogue that has been rattling around in your head become airborne by actors. And with the @theArtsClub LEAP program, not just any actors but by some of the best actors in the city.

[Tetsuro Shigematsu @tweetsuro]

The last time I acted in someone else’s play was a decade ago. That show included David Mott, and Tamara McCarthy. 10 years later, UP IN THE AIR, has invited me back to play w. these beautiful people. This time, Dave is the playwright, and Tamara is Dramaturg and Director.

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That’s a wrap for phase 2 of our 3-year Creations Project at NTS. Working with these beautiful humans, I am co-leading the creation of a brand-new work of Canadian theatre. It will be written by yours truly and this will be their graduating performance/show in 2024.

[Tetsuro Shigematsu @tweetsuro]

It’s 10PM. Just had a good preview of ‘Empire of the Son’ here @PacificTheatre. Even though it's late, I don’t wanna go home. I wanna continue lingering here with these people. With people this great, it hardly feels like work. I <3 theatre, but rarely is it as good as this.

[Tetsuro Shigematsu @tweetsuro]

Tonight I open ‘Empire of the Son’ at the most beautiful little theatre in the world, @vicplayhouse here in Prince Edward Island. Thanks to @grahamwlea and @johanna_joey_nutter for making my dream come true of performing in all 10 provinces.

[Tetsuro Shigematsu @tweetsuro]

Japan family reunion! Highlights have been Miyajima and Enoshima. This has been my kids’ first time in Japan, hopefully not their last :)

[Tetsuro Shigematsu @tweetsuro]

Thank you to Josai International University and Shiguemi Ichiyama for asking me to perform ‘Empire of the Son’. Also thanks to Patricia Liu for her her stunning poster design, @ashley Magallon for Stage Managing flawlessly, and my sister Setsu Shigematsu for hiring her little bro

[Tetsuro Shigematsu @tweetsuro]

My sister Setsu Shigematsu and I are having an amazing time in Japan with our UCR students thanks to Josai International University and Shiguemi Ichiyama.