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If you think you should go see In Pink, the play dealing with the anti-bullying movement started by two Annapolis Valley teens, just because you’ll learn something about the impact of bullying, you’re wrong. You should go see In Pink because it’s so many things that live theatre should be—entertaining, funny, well-written, well-acted, illuminating, challenging…do […]

I saw Stan Carew and the Magpies last night, and I couldn’t help noticing that there were more people in attendance at that concert than there had been at any of the plays I have seen so far at SuperNova. The evening deserved to have a big audience—those guys can really play and Stan’s storytelling […]

If you are a woman over forty, I urge you to pick up the phone and book tickets for one of this weekend’s performances of Cathy Elliot’s funny and touching Moving Day. That’s not to say that this show will not be entertaining to men or younger people, it ‘s just that she so brilliantly […]

Does the world really need another retelling of the tragedy of Titanic? The answer is yes if it is Theatre Rusticle’s original and mesmerizing production April 14, 1912. What sets this show apart is the personification of the “unsinkable” ship. Lucy Rupert dazzles as the proud vessel cutting through the calm sea, her long wake […]

The first piece of live theatre that my youngest son ever saw was staged a number of years ago at the On the Waterfront Theatre Festival (now known as SuperNova). I remember thinking how lucky we are here in HRM to have the opportunity to expose our kids to the theatre-going experience. Rough House, which […]

If you’re a certain kind of Coast reader, you’ll remember the Hall of Best Knowledge comic that we used to run. HOBK threatened to pass into memory when creator Ray Fenwick needed a break from the grind of weekly deadlines, but luckily for everyone on the entire planet that won’t happen. Legendary comics publishing house […]

The first time I saw a movie by Japan’s Hayao Miyazaki, I was recovering from surgery. The storyline of his Academy Award winning film Spirited Away was so foreign to me that I wondered if I was having an adverse reaction to my pain meds that made me imagine the whole thing.Since then, I’ve seen […]

Here are some documents related to my discussion in this week’s “Reality Bites” about last week’s secret council meeting. I’ll have some comment about all this in a moment. Here is the Transport Canada press release about the $13 million in transit money for Halifax. Note the phrasing: Approximately $13 million will go to Halifax, […]

This was the best beer class yet! We’re winding down the semester now. (I’ll be catching up on intervening weeks ASAP, but want to get this post out while it’s fresh on my mind.) Mcouat is through with his lectures— we have a final guest lecture next week— and now it’s time for the students […]

Despite a discordant mishmash of costumes, DalTheatre’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is pretty near note-perfect. The set is ingenious. A stately manor house becomes a multi-level wilderness hung with vines that are whisked open and closed as easily as drapes. The choreography is exciting and flat- out fun. The physical battles between the […]

The sudden passing of British filmmaker Anthony Minghella in the early hours of Tuesday morning made me think back on his body of work. Everyone remembers his Oscar-winning adaptation of the Michael Ondaatje novel The English Patient, the tragic love story starring the very chilly Ralph Fiennes and Kristen Scott Thomas and the wonderfully warm […]

Are you looking for fun on this cold winter day?A book or a movie, a show or a play?I have just the thing. It is swell. It has jive.Take in Seussical The Musical by the group Saints Alive!The costumes are flashy, the sets are just grand.The music is lively and it sports a great band.The […]