An Audience of Chairs Opens Friday, March 22 Cineplex Park Lane, 5657 Spring Garden Road I n Joan Clark’s 2006 novel An Audience of Chairs, a bipolar Cape Bretoner named Moranna reflects on her life without her children, taken by her husband in the wake of her breakdown, and the loss of her gifts as an […]
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Gucci Mane’s Forum show is on sale now
Rapper and Spring Breakers star Gucci Mane is scheduled to perform at the Halifax Forum on May 15 with guests August Alsina, Merkules and Peter Jackson. Tickets start at $89 and are available now right here.
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Thug’s life
The premise of the local short Thug comes from real life: Three aspirational actors—Simon Mutuyimana, Emmanuel John and Joshua Schlagenweit—shoot a film in the streets of Halifax. So, too, does the film’s critical story point, when a scene of violence is mistaken for truth. “They’re in a Starbucks parking lot and the cops pulled up […]
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The Marvelous Ms. Danvers
In the utterly pointless argument of Marvel versus DC, it nonetheless remains worth noting that the dour, self-serious DC got its lady superhero movie out first. It’s also worth nothing that Wonder Woman is better than Captain Marvel, but still not as good as you remember: Like every superpowered outing—led by man, woman or Groot—it’s […]
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Welcome to Diggstown
Diggstown Wednesdays at 9pm on CBC TV Streaming on CBC Gem M arcie Diggs is grieving. Her favourite aunt—the one who taught her how to surf, showed her how to find salvation in the sea—has taken her own life and Marcie is flailing emotionally and—in certain eyes—professionally, ditching lucrative corporate law for legal aid in […]
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Considering a Halifax without The Bus Stop Theatre
The Bus Stop Theatre opened in 2003 at 2203 Gottingen Street (there actually is a bus stop out front, 6779). “Howard Beye bought an old shut-down drugstore and had what everybody thought was this crazy dream to turn it into a theatre,” says Sébastien Labelle, the executive director of The Bus Stop Theatre Co-op, sitting […]
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Nominations for the 2019 Merritt Awards for theatre are out now
Eastern Front Theatre (Kamp and Half-Cracked: The Legend of Sugar Mary), Neptune Theatre (Mamma Mia and Cinderella) and Two Planks and a Passion (Animal Farm) are among the double-digit nominees for this year’s Robert Merritt Awards, which celebrate excellence in Nova Scotia theatre. Also among the nods are Workshirt Opera‘s Tom at the Farm and HomeFirst […]
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Neptune Theatre launches 2019-20 season
Neptune Theatre announced its new season this afternoon, with artistic producer Jeremy Webb summing it up thusly: “This year we’re celebrating more Atlantic Canadian works, talent and stories about female empowerment.” Joining the previously announced Billy Eliot the Musical (April 14-June 7) as the season closer: Argyle Street Kitchen Party (July 23-August 25): Last year’s […]
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Scott Long leaves Music Nova Scotia
Music Nova Scotia has announced that its executive director Scott Long has stepped down after a decade’s tenure. “When I took the job a lot of those issues that the industry is now facing, they weren’t at the forefront at the time,” says Long of the inclusion and diversity pushes in the cultural (and all) industries in […]
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Film review: Arctic
Mads Mikkelsen has just an awful time in Arctic, a beautifully photographed, bracing addition to a survival genre that includes Gravity, Cast Away, 127 Hours, last year’s Adrift and, let’s be real, The Shallows. Mikkelsen’s Overgard is a pilot stranded in the titular land area. We don’t know for how long, but it’s been enough […]
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Rich Aucoin and Classified nominated for Prism Prize
The seventh annual Prism Prize announced its finalists today, with two familiar names in the top 20: Rich Aucoin, for Meags Fitzgerald‘s cleverly animated clip for “The Middle,” and Classified‘s “Powerless,” an ode to MMIW shot in the Millbrook First Nation and directed by Andrew Hines. The Prism Prize will be handed out in Toronto […]
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The Bridge’s community connections
Shauntay Grant’s words are thoroughly embedded in Nova Scotia’s cultural fabric: She is Halifax ‘s third poet laureate; the author of children’s literature including last year’s picture book Africville, a 2018 Governor General’s Literary Award nominee; she’s taken her work all over the country and the world to competitions and literary festivals. This week Grant’s […]
