First Date Last Date Thu Sep 7, 8pm; Fri Sep 8, 6pm; Sat Sep 9, 2pm; Sun Sep 10, 2pm Good Robot Brewing Company, 2736 Robie Street $10/$15 The Fringe Festival is an opportunity to showcase the unconventional, so who says you can’t have a play in a bar? “Theatre is a kind of ritual […]
Michael Lake
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Touched by Too Many Angels will have you dying
Touched by Too Many Angels Fri Sep 8, 10:35pm; Sat Sep 9, 8:55pm; Sun Sep 10, 3:20pm & 5:45pm The Waiting Room, 6040 Almon Street $5/$8 Adam Myatt has died and come back as an angel, ready to impart some wisdom onto the people. Recently featured as part of the Queer Acts Theatre Festival, Myatt […]
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The Return’s family ties
The Return Thu Sep 7 5:15pm; Sat Sep 9 8:45pm; Sun Sep 10 1:40pm Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $12/$14 Written and directed by David Woods and presented by Voices Black Theatre Ensemble, The Return tells the story of a young woman returning home to her humble family in the fictional rural town of […]
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Fringe five-pack
Halifax Fringe Festival August 31-September 10 various locations atlanticfringe.ca The next two weeks are going to be busy for lovers of the weird and wonderful. This is the Halifax Fringe Festival’s 27th year, but its first under the new name. Previously the Atlantic Fringe Festival, the name change comes after other Fringe festivals started popping […]
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Review: The Mystery Play
The Mystery Play is the second installment in the Parrsboro trilogy, a series of mysteries commissioned by the enterprising Ship’s Company Theatre. The plays share the main character of Sister Vivian Salter, a nun with a penchant for sleuthing, played with pluck and aplomb by Mary-Colin Chisholm. This play has Salter doubting her faith and […]
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Review: Stage Kiss
Stage Kiss is Sarah Ruhl’s charming comedy about two actors struggling to separate their roles onstage from their roles in romance. A woman (Francine Deschepper) has been away from the stage for many years and is cast in a play opposite her former lover (Christian Murray). As they begin to rehearse an overwrought 1930s melodrama, […]
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Review: Nothing Less! and A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Nothing Less! It’s 1918 in Apple Tree Landing, and the women of the small Nova Scotia town are fighting for their right to vote. They also sing and dance and practice Suffrajitsu. This is Nothing Less!, a new play by Ami McKay and Ken Schwartz, performed outdoors at the beautiful Ross Creek Centre for the […]
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Review: Pugwash
Pugwash follows the story of the first Pugwash Conference in July of 1957. On its 60th anniversary, it’s a piece of Nova Scotian history that doesn’t get much attention, but is here in the capable hands of playwright Vern Thiessen. The play is a fictional narrative following two kids, 13-year-old Conni McPhee (Gina Thornhill) and […]
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Review: I Do! I Do!
I Do! I Do! is a musical about marriage that debuted on Broadway in 1966, was nominated for a slew of Tony Awards, and over the years has boasted such stars as Mary Martin, Carol Burnett and Rock Hudson, to name a few. It tells the story of Agnes (Amy Reitsma) and Michael (Ian Gilmore) […]
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Review: Kooni and The Queer Ages of Hugo Dann
KooniWritten and performed by Izad Etermadi Directed by Liza Balkan Kooni begins as a light-hearted comedy full of quips about fashion, working in retail and work crushes. Things soon take an uncomfortable turn once a customer at the upscale boutique where Izad works makes a racist comment. Later, he meets an affable Iraian uber driver, with […]
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Summer Theatre Preview
The summer months are perfect for road trips. There is seafood to eat, waterfalls to trek to, and an abundance of theatre to see across the province. With over 20 shows, not including the late-summer Halifax Fringe Festival, where does one even begin? From Shakespeare by the Sea in Point Pleasant Park to Tony Award-winning […]
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Review: Aquarius and Fried
Aquarius Written and performed by François Macdonald Directed by Sunny Drake Aquarius is a tender one-act solo performance that follows two men in 1975 caught in a firebombed Montreal bathhouse. The two men have just met, one is closeted, the other is proudly homosexual. Their interactions begin with the meet-cute dynamic of a romantic comedy, […]
