Twelfth Night To August 31 Cambridge Battery, Point Pleasant Park $20 suggested donation tickethalifax.com Twenty-five years ago, nearly on a whim, Shakespeare By The Sea put up Twelfth NIght for a week in Point Pleasant Park. Last weekend the company opened the production for its fourth time, in honour of that anniversary. But there are […]
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Caesar by the sea
Julius Caesar August 4-September 2 Cambridge Battery, Point Pleasant Park $20-$25 shakespearebythesea.ca In June, New York’s Public Theater lost the support of two corporate sponsors that objected to its production of Julius Caesar, which portrayed the titular character as a Donald Trump-like dictator. (Spoiler alert from 500 years ago: Caesar is quite assassinated.) It sparked […]
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North Brewing Company and Zuppa Theatre pour up liquid love
Who says you only get one shot at true love? Not Zuppa Theatre Company. Pop-Up Love Party, its wildly popular theatrical and culinary quest to define the l-word, is back to lift us up where we belong (entertained, with full bellies) this weekend, staging another sold-out run, this time in Dartmouth. Battery Park Beer Bar […]
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Theatre review: As You Like It
Romance is in the air in Point Pleasant Park, as Shakespeare by the Sea brings to life the Bard’s playful, pastoral comedy As You Like It. It’s a story of love of many kinds, from “unrequited” to “at first sight.” Rosalind (Catherine Rainville) is deprived of her father’s love when the cruel Duke Frederick (Henri […]
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Shakespeare by the Sea’s Pinocchio is winning by a nose
Shakespeare by the Sea has spruced up the children’s classic Pinocchio with some quirky new characters (a muscle-shirted clam and a bearded baby for starters), lovely, hummable tunes rooted in Italian folk music and clever humour that will leave you laughing. Melissa MacGougan gives an anything-but-wooden performance as the titular would-be boy, who is led […]
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Antony and Cleopatra’s epic love
A slice of history and an epic love story combine to make Antony and Cleopatra spellbinding theatre, says Shakespeare By The Sea’s co-artistic director Elizabeth Murphy. “People have an amazing familiarity with this story,” she says, as the cast and crew begin to trickle into the Park Place Theatre space to begin a day of […]
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Going Hamlet
Hamlet. You’ve seen it before, and you’ll see it again. Why? Because each production mines something different from Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy. In the terrific SBTS version, Rhys Bevan-John is part sullen, sarcastic youth and part self-doubting man. He brings a wonderful intensity to the character and delivers the many so-familiar lines with unique twists that […]
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Snow White
Do conjoined twins count as one person? Is Windex poisonous? Is Patrick Swayze an effective life model? These are but a few of the questions raised by SBTS’s highly original take on Snow White. Halifax has come to expect catchy music, zany antics and clever pop culture references from this company’s family shows, and Snow […]