Get your scrolling finger ready, the list is a doozy! Advance tickets are now available online at atlanticfringe.ca. All tickets are $10 or less. Catch a sampler show on August 28 at Neptune Studio Theatre, one minute from about every show. Whirlwind! The 24th Atlantic Fringe program is: The Adversary by Andrew Bailey. Drama • […]
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2011 Atlantic Fringe Festival line up
The 21st annual Atlantic Fringe Fest has announced their full line up, and there are some sweet ones in there, people. Thirty-five shows in eleven drama-filled days (the good kind of drama). There will be shows coming to the fest from Norway, Germany, the UK, New York, St. John’s, Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver. Seventeen visiting […]
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All systems go on 2011’s Atlantic Fringe Fest
This is exciting: From Halifax Fringe: “After the proposed cancellation of this year’s Festival, it is with great excitement that we announce the 2011 Atlantic Fringe Festival will be happening this September 1-11. The enormous outpouring of support from the community, individuals and organizations has enabled this year’s Fringe to happen. After a public meeting […]
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The show will go on
Fringe fans were in a panic last Tuesday when former Artistic Director Ken Pinto announced that he was putting the Atlantic Fringe Festival on hiatus for two years while he focused on his other baby, Titanic 100. Members of the theatre community rallied together to figure out a solution. On Sunday, around 80 people attended […]
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Atlantic Fringe Festival meeting outcome
Weather was dismal yesterday, but it looks like sunny skies for the 2011 Atlantic Fringe Festival. A preliminary meeting was held Sunday afternoon to help get the Atlantic Fringe Festival, or at least a variation of it, back on its feet. The Cultural Federation of Nova Scotia was packed as Fringe Festival supporters gathered to […]
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Titanic 100 events announced
[image-1] Yesterday’s Titanic 100 launch was a perfect time to ask the question that was on everyone’s mind this week. Not that Fringe Fest stuff, what is this, yesterday? Is Ken Pinto indeed bringing an iceberg into Halifax Harbour? Um, no. Apparently some totally lame naysayers claim an iceberg can stir up “metals and poisons into the harbour,” said a disappointed Ken Pinto to an equally disappointed Stephanie Johns. There were some serious talks with iceberg towing companies, though. “They’re towing icebergs out there all the time,” Pinto says. The Titanic Centennial proposed events include “a major conference, a wake
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Ken Pinto drops by the Coast office to discuss the Fringe Festival
Former Atlantic Fringe Fest director Ken Pinto came by the office to discuss the fallout from yesterday’s announcement that announced Pinto was putting the festival on hold for two years while he focused on Titanic 100. Pinto reiterated the points he made on Mainstreet yesterday afternoon, saying that he had some people in mind for […]
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Breaking news: CBC’s Mainstreet discusses the Atlantic Fringe Fest issue with Ken Pinto and Stewart Legere
Stewart Legere (Zuppa Theatre, The Safety Position) and Ken Pinto made an appearance on CBC‘s Mainstreet to talk with host Stephanie Domet about today’s announcement that the Atlantic Fringe Festival will be put on hold for up to two years while Pinto works on the Titanic 100 project. Legere was able to express many concerns […]
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Breaking news: Atlantic Fringe Festival to be put on hold for two years
The pause button has been hit on the Atlantic Fringe Festival. Ken Pinto, the festival’s artistic director, has decided to put it on hold for two years while he focuses on Titanic 100. Needless to say, prospective Fringe-goers and participants are not happy. Michael McPhee, an actor, producer and participant in past Fringe shows, has […]
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Open letter of complaint against Fringe’s Ken Pinto
Mikaela Dyke While performer Mikaela Dyke, who’s been receiving positive reviews for her play Dying Hard, has enjoyed being in Halifax for her Atlantic Fringe run, which ends this weekend, she hasn’t been as happy with the treatment she’s apparently received from the Fringe’s director, Ken Pinto. In fact, Dyke has written an open letter of complaint to the Halifax arts community, and now: “A number of local and touring artists are petitioning the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals (CAFF) to withdraw its affiliation with Halifax’s Atlantic Fringe Festival while under the leadership of the current festival director, Ken Pinto.”
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5 Questions With Ann Denny
rescue me Delightful local musician/comedienne Ann Denny/Anna Danova makes the leap to the Plutonium Playhouse starting tomorrow with her band, the Rescuers, in the Fringe show Emotional Condom. The show features Danova’s original music (including the title song.) We asked her a bunch of questions about it, and she graciously replied between rehearsals via email. […]
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Fringe review: What Happened to Jeff?
Jeff Onore is one weird dude. His one-man show So What About Jeff is unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. I like twisted. I like dark. But his mind is twisted and dark in ways that I can’t comprehend. His delivery is flat and measured, so that it takes a moment to process what you […]