Re-Fringed February 15-18 The Bus Stop Theatre 2203 Gottingen St. www.tickethalifax.com Speaking in Tongues: African Nova Scotian Storytellers An evening of true stories told by members of the African Nova Scotian community, Speaking in Tongues is an entertaining, provocative, and indispensable slice of oral history of our province. 89 year-old Wanda Robson, sister of Viola […]
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Review: Re-Fringed Day One
Re-Fringed February 15-18 The Bus Stop Theatre 2203 Gottingen St. www.tickethalifax.com The Wrath of Ponzi This one-hour comedy-horror play won the 2016 Atlantic Fringe Award for Best New Play. It’s the story of a pyramid scheme’s victims and a sales meeting gone very wrong. The writing is strong, the laughs are frequent, and the performances […]
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A merry band of Merritt winners
Stories about the power of community were front and centre at the 2016 Merritt Awards. From Two Planks’ director Ken Schwartz’s hilarious tale of the entire cast of The Tempest soldiering on through a bout of the evocatively-named “poop flu” to Emerging Theatre Artist Award-winner Colleen MacIsaac’s generous donation of her Merritt winnings to the […]
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Controversy opens dialogue on cultural diversity
Playwright Roy Ellis didn’t set out to offend anyone. His play, Black Dragon Mountain, originally slated to run at the Bus Stop Theatre from November 12th to the 18th, was intended to a be a fusion of Peking Opera and a modern fable that created something “hilarious, lewd and poignant”. However, once the marketing materials […]
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Q & A: Jeremy Banks, the new director of Bus Stop Theatre
Last month, The Bus Stop Theatre announced the hiring of its new executive director, Jeremy Banks. After incorporating as a non-profit co-operative in 2013 and establishing a Board of Directors, Waque’s vision to transfer leadership was accomplished with Banks, a west-coast arts and culture administrator who moved to Halifax two years ago. We caught up with Banks […]
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Mark Little’s Good Dad Tonight Returns Tomorrow
For the last few summers, while filming CBC series Mr. D, Toronto-based/former-Picnicface comedian Mark Little has hosted a whacky talk show called Good Morning Tonight. What started in 2012 as a sketch show in the sweltering Khyber attic — with Andy Bush, Cher Hann, Brian MacQuarrie and more — Good Morning Tonight became such an annual hit that […]
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Stages Theatre Festival lineup announced
Presented by Eastern Front Theatre, Stages Theatre Festival packs it in June 17-28, with six full productions, family friendly events, work from new and established artists and play-readings. 
 Artistic producer Charlie Rhindress curated the festival and stayed true to the name. Showing plays at different stages in their development, by artists at different stages […]
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Neptune Theatre launches 2015/2016 season
Neptune Theatre‘s 2015/16 season launch was announced yesterday, and yes, there is a Shrek musical. Now in its 53rd season, Neptune’s lineup includes six productions as part of the Fountain Hall series, and three in the Studio series. There are also four “bonus features”: Hank Williams Live – 1952 October 9-11, brought to life by […]
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Looking at the 2015 Merritt Awards
If art reflects life, then the 2015 Theatre Nova Scotia Merritt Awards show was a perfect reflection of the mood right now in snow-bound Halifax. There was recognition that making a life in theatre can feel a lot like trying to forge a path through a world of six-foot snow banks. There was a sense […]
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Your 2015 Merritt Awards nominees
The Theatre Nova Scotia annual Merritt Awards have announced the talented nominees who will fight it out for top spot at the Robert Merritt Awards gala on Monday, March 23, 7pm at Casino Nova Scotia’s Schooner Room. Hosted by Joanne Miller and Karen Bassett and produced by Jeremy Webb, the gala will honour the province’s […]
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead is a brilliantly-structured comic re-imagining of Hamlet from the point of view of the two doomed minor characters. The brainy Guildenstern (Katie Dorian) and the simple Rosencrantz (Ira Henderson) exist in a kind of surreal, dreamlike state as Hamlet unfolds around them. The world makes little sense to […]
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Tasty theatre morsels from Ibsen Bites
Hot ticket alert! With “Ibsen Bites”, LunaSea Theatre is revisiting the eclectic, immersive theatre experience template that they used in 2012’s fabulous “Chekhov at Home”. The evening includes six 15-minute theatre pieces that are built around the theme of exploring the life and work of 19th-century Norwegian playwright Henrik Johan Ibsen. The evening is held in a […]
