Even though the third floor of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia’s north building is closed to the public, a cacophony of noise fills the space. Competing chanting from two nearby video installations cross over one another, while the adjoining hallway’s vermillion-red walls are loud enough to register over both. Around the corner, a dozen […]
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Live theatre, art exhibits, comedy, literary, spoken word – The Coast guide to Halifax and Dartmouth, NS . The downtown, local arts scene – plays, writers, actors, artists and performers. Painting, sculpture, photography, stand-up, stage.
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Halifax has Broadway fever. Thankfully, Neptune’s here to help satisfy our craving.
It’d be a stretch, really, to say that director Jeremy Webb has lived the real-life version of his latest play, Neptune’s season-closing musical Billy Elliot, the story of a young ballet dancer in 1980s England going against his parents and peers to chase his dream. But it’s no reach at all to say Webb can […]
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Comedy saved my life. Seriously.
While a sense of triumph usually waits until the end of a performance, there’ll be a quiet, thrumming victory felt from the moment comedian Alva Sparkles takes the stage at Yuk Yuk’s on May 10. As host and MC of The Best Medicine—a show she created that’s giving all proceeds to the Mental Health Foundation […]
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The Beaches announce Halifax concert October 20
Punchy alt-rock powerhouse The Beaches are no stranger to Halifax, confessing from The Seahorse stage back in 2018 that early hit “T-Shirt” was about a guy who was a Dal student at the time. (“Don’t tell him,” vocalist-bassist Jordan Miller added. Sorry to blow the secret now, Miller!) They’ve also played the Scotiabank Centre, warming […]
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Halifax wins big at the 2023 East Coast Music Awards
There’s never been a shortage of proof that Halifax is a music city. It’s pouring out of the front door of Gus’ Pub seven nights a week, bubbling up from the basement of the Seahorse every weekend, spilling out onto Argyle Street thanks to The Carleton—and that’s all in a roughly 20 minute walk around […]
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Trailer Park Boys wrap and pawnshop guy comes back in this week’s film news
Another week, another call for “action” on film sets across the city as shooting season heats up. As the local film and TV sector continues to grow—in a press release from last May, the province says “the film industry contributed about $180.8 million to Nova Scotia’s economy in 2021-22”—Team Coast is keeping tabs on new […]
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Everything you need to know about the 2023 Scotia Festival of Music
Thirteen concerts with 19 world-acclaimed musicians across 15 days: the Scotia Festival of Music has spent the last 44 years making Halifax a top destination in the worlds of chamber and classical music. No matter if you’re an expert on the genre or more of a newbie, you’ll find lots to satiate your hungry ears here. […]
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What is East Coast music, anyway?
It’s a good time to be a music fan in Halifax: From May 3-7, the 35th annual East Coast Music Awards and festival are setting up shop in the city, delivering a hefty dose of live music from every imaginable stage and showcase around. With everything from Halifax-based reggae to PEI art rock on offer, […]
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Scene and heard: What’s being filmed, streamed and screened in Nova Scotia right now
When it comes to #NSFilmJobs, business is definitely booming—or at least, so says the province: “The film industry contributed about $180.8 million to Nova Scotia’s economy in 2021-22 up from about $78 million in 2019-20 and $91.6 million in 2020-21,” a release from last June stated. Now, as another banner year in the industry unfurls, […]
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Shakespeare By The Sea announces 30th summer season
When curtain time finally arrives for Shakespeare By The Sea’s opening night performance of Romeo and Juliet (one of two shows that comprise the veteran theatre company’s 2023 summer season, which is also its 30th), associate artistic director and play director Drew Douris-O’Hara will be ready, primed, equipped, toes already waiting behind the metaphorical start […]
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Adam Baldwin’s newest record is his biggest hit. Here’s why he almost didn’t write it.
To hear him tell it, there was a time when Adam Baldwin’s newest LP was just about the last sort of thing the Dartmouth singer-songwriter would ever choose to record. After three albums establishing his own vein of rock ‘n’ roll outside of his post as Matt Mays’ guitarist, Concertos & Serenades feels like a […]
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Meet Séamus Gallagher, Halifax artist and 2023 Sobey Art Award long-lister.
The day it’s announced that Séamus Gallagher has made the longlist for the Sobey Art Award—the biggest visual art prize in the country—they’re catching some Vitamin D on The Common, neon manicure and cornflower-blue leather blazer complimenting perfectly with their highlighter-yellow Telfar bag. “I mean, I take a lot of inspiration from a lot of […]
