Arts & Culture

If you’re looking for somewhere to commemorate Remembrance Day (which, for the record, is Friday, Nov 11), you’re not short on options. Here’s the deets on where to attend a service near you: Remembrance Day Service at Grand Parade After a pandemic pause, the (arguably) biggest memorial of November 11 has returned to Grand Parade […]

It’s the third time English funny guy Jimmy Carr has brought a new stack of material to Canada—and if past tours are anything to go by, it’s only a matter of time until his newest show, Jimmy Carr: Terribly Funny sells out. Halifax is getting in on the joke, too: It was announced today that […]

People are really, really excited that Neptune Theatre is staging a musical, play version of Will Ferrell’s greatest film, Elf: So excited, in fact, that tickets for the show are already 80 percent sold—a whopping amount, considering it hasn’t even hit the stage yet. But, the venerable theatre knows when to double down on a […]

Sometimes, it feels like poet-author Sue Goyette has spent a lifetime parsing the forest for the trees. Long inspired by nature, wildness and humanity’s need for both, a Goyette work is never far from soil or seed—proved by almost every entry in her bibliography, from her 2015 Nova Scotia Masterwork Arts Award-winning book Ocean to […]

John Mulaney will perform his newest hour of standup at the Scotiabank Centre in downtown Halifax on Friday, Nov. 4 as part of his From Scratch tour. After a highly publicized and eventful past year, the comedian’s latest title suggests he is embarking on something entirely new. So, in the spirit of looking forward, The […]

Atlantic Canada’s largest theatre company is changing its cast. After six years at Neptune Theatre, general manager Lisa Bugden is stepping down from her post, the performing arts company shared in a release this week. In her place, longtime marketing executive Catherine Bagnell Styles will assume an interim general manager role as Neptune seeks a […]

When The Coast reaches Eastern Front Theatre’s executive director Kat McCormack by phone, it takes a minute for the call to settle. McCormack plugs in headphones, but the background noise is deliciously inescapable. Rooms away from where McCormack is sequestered, the cast, crew, director and live band of EFT and Charles Taylor Theatre & Media […]

When a trio of famous rock musicians combine forces, we call it a supergroup. But what about when three big-deal visual artists combine their catalogues and creative energy? Well, we don’t really have a pop culture term for that—at least not yet. But, you can still see it in action by catching the show JIM […]

The Nova Scotia Masterworks Award just dropped its 2022 shortlist. The largest cultural prize in the province, the Masterworks Award sees a jury of experts select the top art works in a swath of mediums—evaluating their originality, artistic maturity, impact, and contribution to Nova Scotia. From a shortlist, one piece of art stands to win the […]

Little children our beings they found you – mijua’ji’jk ntininaq weji’skesnik is one of five can’t-miss projects at this year’s Nocturne, a site-specific art festival that has things popping up all over Halifax from Oct. 13 to 15. Read more about the other Nocturne projects we’re most excited about here. “If you are a product […]

A Short Story About Sidewalks is one of five can’t-miss projects at this year’s Nocturne, a site-specific art festival that has things popping up all over Halifax from Oct. 13 to 15. Read more about the other Nocturne projects we’re most excited about here. “I think in the simplest sense, Halifax means home for me,” writes […]

Meet Me at the Dinner Table is one of five can’t-miss projects at this year’s Nocturne, a site-specific art festival that has things popping up all over Halifax from Oct. 13 to 15. Read more about the other Nocturne projects we’re most excited about here. “Our main thing, our main agreement, is that we want […]