Shauntay Grant’s words are thoroughly embedded in Nova Scotia’s cultural fabric: She is Halifax ‘s third poet laureate; the author of children’s literature including last year’s picture book Africville, a 2018 Governor General’s Literary Award nominee; she’s taken her work all over the country and the world to competitions and literary festivals. This week Grant’s […]
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Neptune Theatre announces 2018/19 season
Neptune Theatre, under the guidance of new AD Jeremy Webb, announced its 2018/19 slate this afternoon with its annual lunch at Fountain Hall. The summer season will kick off July 3 with The Argyle Street Kitchen Party, while the season proper bows with Shakespeare in Love (Sep 4-Oct 7) and closes with The Color Purple (Apr […]
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Review: One Discordant Violin
Before the lights come up, a man (Jacques Mindreau) emerges from the wings with a flashlight and a violin, plays a brief tune in the near dark, and then exits. A second man (Anthony Black), our narrator, enters to tell the story of his chance encounter with a piece of music in an abandoned theatre […]
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The Bridge explores secrets and the past
The Bridge: A Work-in-Progress Showing Friday, February 24, 7:30pm Dalhousie Arts Centre, 6101 University Avenue 2btheatre.com Shauntay Grant is bringing her latest stage play to life in collaboration with 2b Theatre and director Anthony Black. The Bridge is steeped in the past and present of a rural African Nova Scotian community and follows the trials […]
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The matter of Invisible Atom
It’s been a wild ride for 2b theatre since Invisible Atom first premiered in Halifax in 2006. The one-man show, written by and starring 2b’s co-artistic director Anthony Black, has touched down in cities across Canada, as well as in New York and Cork, Ireland. It recently returned from a run at the Edinburgh Fringe […]