FIN AIFF Opening Night Gala: Murmur Thu Sep 12, 7pm Rebecca Cohn Auditorium 6101 University Avenue $50 The opposite of a silver-set Hollywood dream, Heather Young’s films have both feet firmly planted in reality. She wants to make movies about “a real person, that feels like someone I could meet in my real life—that both […]
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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Halifax Pop Explosion reveals full 2019 lineup
It was back in April when PUP—the Toronto punk four-piece that’s garnering international attention and acclaim for its latest, Morbid Stuff—leaked it’d be playing a show at The Marquee Ballroom, during dates that lined up with Halifax Pop Explosion. And though cool kids around town made sure that set was sold out before it was […]
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A play from away
Les Kurkendaal is a professional Fringer, the sort of performer who creates a show and winds around the world with it, stopping at every Fringe Festival in every city along the way. “I am a storyteller but I tell comedic, autobiographic stories,” he adds, speaking by phone from his home in L.A. This year’s Halifax […]
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Giant Killer Shark: the Musical will sink its Jaws into you.
Giant Killer Shark: the Musical Sat Sep 7, 11am & 8:45pm; Sun Set 8, 2:55pm & 10pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $13/$10 Amanda Mullally has always had a flair for the dramatic. The co-star of Giant Killer Shark: The Musical, a comedic reworking of Jaws, recalls a PEI childhood heavy with dramaturgy: […]
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The Encounters of an Adventurous Snail blends live music and shadow puppetry
The Encounters of an Adventurous Snail Thu Sep 5, 1pm & 8:30pm; Fri Sep 6, 8pm; Sat Sep 7, 6pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $10/$7 Logan Robins tells people that it was a high school production of Little Shop of Horrors that saw the writer-director’s interest spark in puppets, but, in fact, […]
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For the love of Fringe
Once a year, during that in-between-time of ever-crisper days that still warrant sunscreen, the city stirs. Posters for plays and one-person-shows begin papering poles. Streamers billow out of the mouth of forgotten places like the Old Company House. Professional performing artists present their pet projects that are too out there for anywhere else. They share […]
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Subscribing to Women’s Issues
Women’s Issues Sep 5-7, 8pm The Pit, University of King’s College, 6350 Coburg Road $8/$5 The certain election of a certain president puzzled writer/director Katie Clarke on both a logical and emotional level: “I go to King’s, and there’s so much conversation there about identity and taking up space. I started researching women who voted […]
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T. Roy’s Building 17: A Conspiracy In One Act draws the ugly face of the military industrial complex
Building 17: A Conspiracy In One Act Fri Sep 6, 6:45pm Sat Sep 7, 7:30pm Sun Sep 8, 12:20pm & 5:30pm The Bus Stop Theatre 2203 Gottingen Street PWYC T. Roy remembers watching TV as the Berlin Wall fell. “You could feel the emotion of people trying to break down barriers and it was of […]
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Colleen MacIsaac’s mercury explores communication and loneliness
mercury Thu Sept 5, 9:30pm Fri Sept 6, 5pm Sat Sept 7, 2pm & 11:20pm Neptune Theatre 1593 Argyle Street $8/$5 Colleen MacIsaac sidles into a Quinpool Road coffee shop, bowtie matching her combat boots in a perfect, non-navy-shade of dark blue. She sits down with an iced coffee and so much energy she hardly […]
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Behind the look: BZLY
BZLY thebzly.com Intelligent life, out there somewhere: Peter Hemsworth, the creator behind streetwear-focused fashion line BZLY, doesn’t know if it exists—but he sure is fascinated by how it might dress. “I think the best part is the mystery of it all anyways,” he says. For the label’s latest limited-run collection, released last month, Hemsworth was […]
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Get ready to binge on Fringe
Today marks the starting gun of the 29th annual Halifax Fringe Festival, with venues large and small all over town being taken over by indie theatre of all stripes. While you probably already have your plan of attack marked on your Fringe guide (see our listings if not), a case for different plays is made […]
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Have a confetti-filled Labour Day weekend with these Sure Things
It’s Fringe’s opening weekend and the Halifax Urban Folk Fest lineup is stacked, as Labour Day and summer’s swan song draws nigh. Halifax Wanderers FC vs. FC Edmonton Monday The perfect cure for Labour Day’s end-of-summer blues? Watching an outdoor sport—like soccer at the Wanderers Grounds. more deets The Other Mozart Saturday, Sunday, Monday With […]