Fringe Sampler! Thursday, September 1 7pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street free Going into its 26th year, the Atlantic Fringe Festival is anything but fringe. What was once a deliberately marginal theatrical celebration is not just a big theatre festival—it’s now a major Halifax festival, period. More than 50 productions over 150 performances, spanning 15 […]
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On the fringe of the Fringe Fest, Bud Hunter is also its heart
I’M CHE GUEVARA, GOD-DAMN IT! Friday, September 2, 7:10pm Saturday, September 3, 2pm Sunday, September 4, 7pm Monday, September 5, 2pm and 8:55pm Thursday, September 8, 9:20pm Saturday, September 10, 1:35pm Plan B, 2180 Gottingen Street $4, 40 minutes If you can get to Bud Hunter’s Atlantic Fringe Festival show I’M CHE GUEVARA GOD-DAMN IT! […]
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An encore for Atlantic Fringe Festival
The 25th Atlantic Fringe Festival back in September was a stellar affair, but if you missed it, don’t despair. Re-Fringed, a mini-festival featuring some of the most popular shows from AFF 2015, is coming to the Bus Stop Theatre March 23 through 26. The five shows which are being remounted represent a variety of theatrical […]
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Budget-slashed Fringe Festival turns to crowdfunding
The show must go on? The Atlantic Fringe Festival is looking for your help to fund this year’s festivities. An IndieGoGo campaign, launched this morning by festival director Thom Fitzgerald is looking to make up for the funds slashed by Halifax council. The scrappy theatre festival urges supporters to dig deep into their pockets to […]
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Fringe Binge 2014: Day 6
After entire days in dark theatres, three shows in one evening seems like a walk in the park. Unfortunately, Lumber Jack & Jill’s Double Date was only scheduled for the beginning of the festival, so there are no more opportunities to catch this improv show. Last night’s edition included special guests Mark Little and Naomi […]
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Fringe Binge 2014: Day 5
Daydreams of Kaleidoscopes ★★★ After seeing this show, I left the theatre with a lot of questions. Why was the young man in the play dying? What was the relationship between his mental illness and his impending death? Why was his therapist a disembodied voice…was he real, a figment of the boy’s imagination, or a […]
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Fringe Binge 2014: Day 4
Audiences are building as the buzz gets louder about the 2014 Fringe. So much good comedy at this year’s festival, but also an impressive range of drama from heart-touching to mind-bending. Something for everyone! Watch Out WildKat! (Yer Dealin’ with the Devil) ★★★★★ I’m telling you, run, don’t mosey, to get your tickets for this […]
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Fringe Binge 2014: Day 3
The Atlantic Fringe scheduling offers two really valuable tools for mapping out a Fringe Binge: the opening night Fringe Sampler and Festival Chair (and charming funnyman) Kevin Kindred’s Fringe Talk Show. The Sampler has come and gone, but there are two more opportunities to take in the talk show, which shines the spotlight on an assortment […]
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Fringe Binge 2014: Day One
Fifty-eight plays from now to September 7th. That’s what I’m aiming for. (And even at that, it is still physically impossible to see every play at this year’s Fringe.) My reviews will be short., but I’m trying out a star rating system to see if that helps in choosing what to see. However, we […]
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Fringe Binge 2014: Day 2
I’d forgotten how fun, and frantic, Fringe can be. Trying to see the bulk of the shows means mad dashes across town to meet tight turn-around times as well as lengthy layovers in The Bus Stop lobby that offer a chance to discuss and digest the plays. Last night’s offerings certainly offered lots of food […]
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Get on the bus with Legoland
Legoland is a musical about two bus-hopping, drug-dealing, ex-hippie runaways, Penny (Maggie Hammel) and Ezra (Henricus Gielis), who are forced to sing and dance as part of their community service. Their genre of choice? Vaudeville, which is “fast-paced, fun and predictably unpredictable,” says the show’s director, Gillian Clark. Popular in the late 19th and […]
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Androidgynous’ robot love
If you’re wandering around Halifax and see a man in make-up holding hands with a doll that’s holding hands with a robot, fear not—it’s just actor Ian Mullan promoting his Fringe show, Androidgynous. Mullan will be playing two roles, lovelorn Aunt June and her young, robot-obsessed charge Riley. “I was a kid who loved machines […]