Portland Street’s The Dart Gallery is once again proving itself to be the buzzy community hub the city needs post-COVID: While the location’s already been on our radar of late as an incubator for local comedy, it was announced this week that it’ll also play host to a new writers’ collective debut event. Related The […]
Morgan Mullin
Morgan was the Arts & Entertainment Editor at The Coast, where she wrote about everything from what to see and do around Halifax to profiles of the city’s creative class to larger cultural pieces. She started with The Coast in 2016.
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The Ennis Sisters announce Halifax holiday show for November 24
For two and a half decades, The Ennis Sisters have captivated audiences with their deftly woven sibling harmonies, amassing endless ECMAs and a Juno along the way. Known for the SOCAN best selling country hit “Take Me Home”, the Newfoundland roots trio announced today it’ll be heading to the mainland this fall, making a stop […]
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Staging the first-love story of the first modern lesbian in Crypthand
The real life of Anne Lister already feels lifted from a script: Described as the first “modern lesbian” (she lived openly with a woman in 1830s England, in what many consider the country’s first same-sex union), Lister’s diaries were so spicily explicit that, when they were first discovered after her death, they were thought to […]
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Halifax filmmaker Leah Johnston screens Mother’s Skin at Vancouver International Film Festival
By the fall of 2021, the local film biz was roaring back to life after a series of COVID-related shutdowns: Things we moving, sets were cropping up all over, and Screen Nova Scotia was announcing an industry-wide boom. Local filmmaker Leah Johnston was both an example of the buzz and completely outside of it, filming […]
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Neptune Theatre announces five audition notices
Part of Neptune’s 2022-2023 slate, In Lieu of Flowers is a new work penned by emerging playwright Alison Crosby, through an incubator program by the venerable theatre. Its story traces a tale of grief and loyalty as main character Eddie attempts to navigate life and relationships after the sudden passing of her brother. Hitting the […]
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All the poetry books you’ll want to ‘add to cart’, thanks to AfterWords Literary Festival
There’s nothing better than the city’s biggest celebration of the written word—that’s AfterWords Literary Festival, obvs—to get you into bookworm mode. And while this year’s lineup isn’t short on all-stars in any given genre, it does boast a bunch of poetry from verse-crafters that’ll show you all the art form is capable of. Here’s all […]
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Updated: What Hurricane Fiona means to Halifax’s weekend plans
Have you bought some bottled water yet? Or figured out how you’ll fill the time once the power goes out? Yep, Hurricane Fiona is on its way—currently forecast to hit Nova Scotia with major wind and rain starting Friday, September 23, with landfall happening near Cape Breton on Saturday, September 24—and will affect Halifax to […]
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Hopscotch Festival moves this weekend’s programming from Grand Parade to Light House Arts Centre
Thanks to Hurricane Fiona, the team at Hopscotch Festival—the east coast’s largest celebration of hip hop—have had to make some changes. Since most of the annual event’s programming was slated to take place outdoors at Grand Parade, a venue change-up is, of course, in order—and the event took to Instagram today to say that the […]
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Walter Borden’s The Last Epistle of Tightrope Time sees a master revisiting and restitching their opus
In the penultimate scene of The Last Epistle of Tightrope Time, Neptune’s 60th season opener, which closes Sept. 25, Walter Borden unfurls a quilt on the stage floor. He crouches low to the blanket’s surface, saying: “your life is like this patchwork quilt where them pieces don’t mean nuthin’ when they scattered all about, but […]
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Neptune Theatre renames greenroom to legendary actor Walter Borden
When the Order of Canada-winning, Dora-nominated, luminary of theatre Walter Borden wraps his run of the solo play The Last Epistle of Tightrope Time at Neptune Theatre this weekend, it’ll be far from the last you’ll hear of him at the venerable venue. In a release issued earlier today, Neptune announced plans to rename its […]
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Everything you need to know about the 2022 AfterWords Literary Festival
When it comes to celebrations of the written word, nothing on Halifax’s festival calendar comes close to AfterWords, a literary festival that brings all-star authors from across the country and world to town for thought-provoking discussions, enriching workshops and good-times gatherings. It’s as if your to-read pile on Goodreads came to life and let you […]
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Sloan announces Halifax show on January 28
Halifax-born, Toronto-based indie rock four-piece Sloan announced today it’ll play a hometown show in early 2023: The One Chord To Another band will hit the Light House Arts Centre stage on January 28 at 8pm. Not that you need an introduction, since we bet you’re already humming hits like “The Rest of My Life” or […]