Neptune Theatre’s upcoming season—the venerable stage’s 60th—is back-to-back bangers. Two plays in the stacked selection include Misery (based on a Stephen King novel of the same name) and the Will Ferrell fave Elf, reimagined for the stage as a musical. But before these shows arrive before audiences they need to flesh out a cast. If […]
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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Star soprano Sondra Radvanovsky announces Halifax concert November 5
No big deal, but Sondra Radvanovsky just might be the world’s greatest living soprano—at least, according to the likes of The Chicago Tribune, Opera News, London’s Royal Opera House, Teatro alla Scala, Opernhaus Zürich and The Metropolitan Opera. She’s performed at every major opera house in the world and, at this point, is probably sick […]
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Symphony Nova Scotia announces winner of its 2022 Maria Anna Mozart Award for Canadian women composers
In its first awarding since the pandemic, Symphony Nova Scotia’s Maria Anna Mozart Award for Canadian women composers returns, giving top nods to Toronto-based composer Alice Ping Yee Ho. Named for the historically overlooked piano prodigy (and yes, sister to Wolfgang), the Maria Anna Mozart Award was launched in 2016, aiming to highlight those of […]
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Eyelevel artist-run centre announces new co-director
As the guard continues changing at arts organizations across the city—and as many of the same cultural linchpins are fighting to keep footing during what many in the sector agree is a venue crisis a decade in the making—a press release from Eyelevel artist-run centre landed in my inbox today, squarely under the file of […]
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Lunenburg Doc Fest announces finalists in its inaugural live pitch contest
The Lunenburg Documentary Festival is an annual celebration of true stories told on film, highlighting local and international doc creators and their works. Earlier this year, the event announced it was time for it to do more for emerging doc directors from marginalized communities, so it launched a program aimed at pushing back against systemic […]
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NSCAD University welcomes new president
The president’s desk at NSCAD University must, at this point, be a smooth, worn-down patina, based sheerly off the number of times it’s been swiped, skidded across, packed up and unloaded over the past couple of years: Back in 2019, Aoife Mac Namara took the helm of the first degree-granting art school in the country. […]
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Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition comes to Halifax Exhibition Centre July 7
If Sobeys’ plan to phase out Air Miles meant you cashed yours in, and it ain’t much, the Halifax Exhibition Centre has your back: Another globe-trotting projection art show is preparing to set up shop at 200 Prospect Road. It was announced today that a digital rendering of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel—simply called Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: […]
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This year, Halifax is celebrating July 1 differently
There’s an audible inertia of background flurry on the line as Cheryl Copage-Gehue, Indigenous Community Engagement Advisor for HRM’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion, answers The Coast’s phone call, stepping into another room so she can hear and be heard. Speaking from the cusp of the last minute (hence the office hubbub around her), she’s […]
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So, you wanna see some fireworks in Halifax this weekend?
The fireworks celebration typically held on the Halifax Waterfront is not taking place on July 1, 2022. A new vision for the long weekend—a festival called Kana’ta Day 2022—is taking over The Common from 11am-4pm with a cultural village for families to enjoy music, crafts, games, authentic Indigenous cuisine and more. Meanwhile, down at Grand […]
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The first-ever Halifax Mural Festival takes place July 11-17
Correction: An earlier version of this article stated Duane Jones was curator of an art show at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia when he is, in fact, the exhibition space designer of the show. The Coast regrets the error, and has updated the text below. A celebration of street art and those who create it, […]
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Jessica McMann is making history with her free, Halifax concert June 29
Multidisciplinary artist Jessica McMann didn’t set out to be a history-making composer and flutist. She took to the instrument in childhood and a natural talent kept it in her orbit, a steady yet quotidian pull like the tide. But when she takes to the stage at Halifax Central Library’s Paul O’Regan Hall on June 29, […]
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Screen Nova Scotia announces senior director of $20 million sound stage project
The movie biz in Nova Scotia is on the up, with record-breaking numbers of productions being shot here and the government doubling down on supporting the industry, giving a combined $23 million investment to the sector this past March. (The provincial government also raised the local film tax credit to $10 million, from a previous […]