Theatre

Could there be a better time to stage Noah Haidle’s wickedly funny and highly disturbing Mr. Marmalade in Halifax? After all, the entire city has been engaged in a months-long, much-needed discussion about what we can do about violence against women. So how, you may be wondering, does a one-act play about a four-year-old named […]

Talk about binging on theatre! Queer Act Festival is offering five shows that will fill your evening from 6:00 to 11:30 all for $35.00. Of course, you could pick and choose, but there is something very satisfying about consuming this as a combo package. So, here’s the line-up: First up is Aisha Sommer Zaman’s conversation-sparking […]

Photo: Laani Heinar Plays featuring all-women casts are few and far between, so it’s a real treat to get to chance to Waiting for the Parade which centres on five strong, small-town Canadian women who are keeping the home fires burning during the Second World War. Janet (Shoel Strang) is a bossy, abrasive powerhouse who […]

Eleven women shared the stage last night at the Bella Rose for a fundraising performance of Birth by Karen Brody. These women were not professional actors, but rather a cast made up of talented local Doulas (Women who assist in childbirth by providing emotional support and physical comfort to the mother). The play is documentary-style, […]

The Madonna Painter is really quite extraordinary. The play, by French Canadian playwright Michel Marc Bouchard, is set in a small Quebec town in 1918 (although the time and place was not explicitly clear, at least to me, in the Taboo Theatre production) during a devastating flu epidemic. In response to the outbreak, the town’s […]

Heat Theatre’s mandate is simple: Produce plays that are “too hot to handle”. And there’s no doubt that Killzone: A Love Story falls within this mandate. It’s a provocative, disturbing and altogether harrowing journey into the mind of a soldier severely damaged by war and shunned by society. Although the conflict is never specifically named […]

Get thee to a ferry! It’s officially time to make the trek across the harbour with Onelight Theatre’s move to Alderney Landing. The announcement of the move was made on Monday, April 8. Artists, executives and members of the community filled Alderney Landing, excited to welcome Onelight to Dartmouth. The event featured musical performances by […]

Theatre Arts Guild’s (TAG) mini festival this weekend, Playwrights@TAG Festival, showcases a mixed bag of short plays, making use of a “waste not, want not” philosophy. Organizers Nick Jupp and Angela Butler, both TAG members, had noticed a surplus of scripts from aspiring playwrights and members of the guild, but a lack of stage time […]