Places Please! Monday, July 30, 7:30pm The Waiting Room, 6040 Almon Street $40 tickethalifax.com A different kind of Waiting Room is facing closure this autumn: The four-year-old north-end performance space, rehearsal hall and home of KAZAN CO-OP will fall to the condo wrecking ball in the coming months. “We rented to 18 independent theatre companies […]
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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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Weirdos clicks
Weirdos Opens Friday, March 17 It’s 1976, and Kit (Dylan Authors) is restless. It’s summer in Antigonish and he wants an adventure. He devises a plan with his girlfriend Alice (Julia Sarah Stone) to hitchhike to Sydney where his bohemian mother (Molly Parker) lives. She’s travelled the world, hung out at The Factory in New […]
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Life is in the Small Things
Small Things November 10-11, 7:30pm November 12, 4pm & 8:30pm November 13, 2pm & 7:30pm Neptune Studio Theatre, 1593 Argyle Street $30-$52 Birdy (Heather Rankin) has been hired as Patricia’s housekeeper. Patricia (Jenny Munday) is a retired school teacher, measured and intellectual. Birdy is a ball of energy who will talk about anything just to […]
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A Trigger response
TriggerTuesday September 21st, 7:10pm, Park Lane 4 Built into its very name, rock ‘n’ roll is a duality. Two kinds of energy meet and intermingle. A single force forms and reforms. Point and counterpoint; counterpoint becomes point and vice versa. In that way, rock ‘n’ roll resembles life. It is life. (I can’t imagine my life so far, and to come, my life with my wife Sue, without the thought, wakefulness and beauty the music gives me daily.) The duo of Daniel MacIvor (writer) and Bruce McDonald (director) deliver a film about life, some of its interconnected and universal concerns,
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MacIvor’s Confession an absolute must-go
It’s something of a Daniel MacIvor bonanza in Halifax this week, with both A Beautiful View and Confession (albeit for one night only) playing. How interesting it is to see the two plays back to back, and to pick out themes—truth, death, chairs (okay, that’s not a theme)—shared by both. Confession is the story of […]
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Daniel MacIvor explores a love unlimited
Daniel MacIvor found inspiration for his latest play, A Beautiful View, in the sex lives of people in their 20s. The writer-director found that 20-somethings were more polyamorous and less likely to define their sexuality than older generations. “That shows some sort of social evolution,” says MacIvor. “People are just more open to a living […]