Fox February 20-24 Weldon Law Building, 6061 University Avenue 8pm (Wed-Sat) 2pm, 8pm (Thu, Sat, Sun) $10-25, tickethalifax.com Colleen MacIsaac, artistic producer of The Villain’s Theatre, is no stranger to bringing old works to contemporary stages. But even she says that Volpone, an early-17th century comedy by British playwright Ben Jonson, presented a particular challenge […]
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Breaking Macbeth
Macbeth February 5-8, 7:30pm February 9, 2pm, 7:30pm Halifax Citadel National Historic Site 5425 Sackville Street $10-30, tickethalifax.com When she was approached to direct an upcoming production of Macbeth, Julia Schultz says her mind jumped immediately to one of the play’s most challenging scenes. “There’s this one Lady Macbeth monologue, ‘unsex me here,’” she says, […]
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IDOW’s Songs of the times
In the Dead of Winter January 24-26 inthedeadofwinter.com In hindsight, the birth of the In the Dead of Winter festival in 2006 feels like a perfect storm of talent and timing. Heather Gibson hosted the first event at the Khyber Club on Barrington with Jill Barber, Rose Cousins, Amelia Curran and Jenn Grant—names that now […]
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Listening deep with Joe McPhee
“Possible, poetic, hypothesis—it’s all po.” Underground jazz legend Joe McPhee is listing a string of words connected through the phonetic sound “po”—a reminder, he says, of the creative possibilities of approaching the world from a slightly different angle. McPhee, 79, attributes the theory to the philosopher Edward De Bono, whose book Lateral Thinking: A Textbook […]
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The MAN show
It’s no easy feat for a solo performer to keep an audience spellbound on their own. For Norwegian choreographer Sølvi Edvardsen, dancer Sudesh Adhana is one of the few artists capable of such a feat. Though the pair have been collaborating for years, she remembers the first time she saw Adhana perform like it was […]
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Serena Ryder’s pure joy
Serena Ryder Thursday, December 6, 8pm Casino Nova Scotia, Schooner Room, 1983 Upper Water Street $60 ticketatlantic.com In the middle of a conversation about her new Christmas album, Serena Ryder can’t help but sing just a hint of it. “Like, what song is this,” she giggles, before singing a line—the joy surmounts the shoddy phone […]
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Petra Glynt’s wake-up call
Petra Glynt w/Russell Louder, Marthas Thursday, November 22, 8pm Modulating Mansion, 2411 Agricola Street $10 “I shake to stay awake” sings Alexandra Mackenzie, her voice cutting through a dense sea of synthesizers. That cry comes from the song “Control” off My Flag Is A Burning Rag Of Love, Mackenzie’s latest art-pop romp under the name […]
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What to Expect When You Aren’t Expected’s queer health care study
What to Expect When You Aren’t Expected Sat Nov 10 (8pm), Sun Nov 11 (2pm & 8pm) Museum of Natural History 1747 Summer Street $10/$20 “These stories are just so powerful, we just couldn’t let them sit anymore,” says Megan Aston. The stories she’s speaking about are those of LGBQ+ women who have given birth […]
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Rae Spoon’s natural of things
Rae Spoon w/Holy Crow and respectfulchild Saturday, October 6, 7pm RadStorm, 2177 Gottingen Street $13 adv/$15 door In a word, you could say that Rae Spoon’s new album bodiesofwater is about nature. But as fans of the prolific singer-songwriter have learned across their decades-spanning career, a Rae Spoon record is rarely superficial: Their magic exists […]
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Fall Arts: Songs of the City
Songs of the City October 5, 6:30pm Spatz Theatre, 1855 Trollope Street $20 tickethalifax.com Inspired by similar events in other cities, the United Way is presenting Songs of the City—a event pairing local musicians with community members who’ve benefited from the United Way’s work in the area. It’s an evening that’s set to showcase both […]
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Fall Arts: This is Nowhere by Zuppa Theatre
This is Nowhere September 26-30 reserve free tickets at thisisnowhere.ca “What would somebody in 1968 have hoped the city of 2018 might look like? What were the blind spots? What were the things that the people of 1968 weren’t thinking about when imagining cities of the future?” Those are the questions that Zuppa Theatre’s co-artistic […]
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Fall Arts: Bhinna Vinyasa presented by Live Art Dance
Attakkalari Dance Company: Bhinna Vinyasa September 20-21, 2018, 8pm Sir James Dunn Theatre, 6101 University Avenue $20-$30 liveartdance.ca/booking In a rapidly changing world, migration has become an increasingly important subject in the work of artists around the globe. It’s a topic whose representation has stakes for politics, sure, but also for identity, how we see […]