Arts & Culture

Halifax drag queen Anita P’s entrance to Moulin Rouge!—the 2001 opus directed by Baz Lurhmann—wasn’t under the neon-soaked main marquee, but rather a side door: Via the music video for ‘Lady Marmalade’ that saw Christina Aguilera, P!nk, Mýa and Lil’ Kim delivering one of the most defining covers of the aughts. (The song—originally released by […]

The buzz in the air was so alive today at Neptune theatre that the whole afternoon felt like five minutes away from curtain time. But the show at hand was actually the announcement of the theatre’s upcoming season. Here’s what the venerable stage has in store for 2023-2024: Summer sees two musical reviews taking the […]

The days are getting longer, finally—and trust that Halifax has your back with lots of fun ways to fill them. This week, the Monday-to-Wednesday slump isn’t even a slouch, thanks to a drag show stuffed with local legends and a live concert featuring Halifax rapper Kye Clayton and New Brunswick up-and-comer Kylie Fox. Make some […]

“We don’t need to be cutting at this time, we need to be increasing at this time—and I think the councillors really heard that,” Susanne Chui, co-artisitc director of Mocean Dance tells me, speaking by phone days after she and about 30 other concerned citizens took to city hall to make a case against a […]

I hate to admit it, but I was skeptical. When Hannah Moscovitch—one of Canadian theatre’s brightest-glittering luminaries—told me that her two-part, six-hour adaptation of the classic novel Fall On Your Knees was stuffed with songs, I couldn’t picture how this story could swing into musical territory: Ann-Marie MacDonald’s opus about the Piper family begins with the […]

The weekend is as good as here, so it’s time to make the most of it! Here is The Coast’s expert-picked guide to what’s happening around Halifax from Feb 23-26, from an orchestral rendition of a Dr. Dre album to The Beaches’ Halifax concert to the return of the Halifax Black Film Festival. Get ready […]

Two thousand and six: It was the year Facebook opened its platform to the world; the era when peak tabloid culture christened Britney, Paris and Lindsay sharing a cab “the bimbo summit” and the year Pluto was downgraded from a full-sized planet to a dwarf planet. In Halifax, it was also the year that the […]

Get ready to light up the group chat: here’s your going-out guide for February 20-22, proof that there’s tons to do and see in the city every night of the week. See Fall On Your Knees onstage (until March 5) Ann-Marie MacDonald’s blockbuster book about a Cape Breton family across eras has been adapted for […]

If the Nova Scotian film industry has, of late, been making hay while the sun shines (2021-22 was a record year for the industry, which the government says contributed about $180 million to Nova Scotia’s economy), consider this a sign that there’s zero percent chance of clouds in upcoming forecasts: The Coast hears industry chatter […]

The days are slowly getting longer and Halifax’s calendar of events is filling up with all kinds of must-see, must-do fun, from must-see music shows by some of the city’s biggest stars to snagging seats at a sold-out screening of a buzzy Oscar nominee. Here’s where to go and what to do to maximize those […]