Eastern Front Theatre (Kamp and Half-Cracked: The Legend of Sugar Mary), Neptune Theatre (Mamma Mia and Cinderella) and Two Planks and a Passion (Animal Farm) are among the double-digit nominees for this year’s Robert Merritt Awards, which celebrate excellence in Nova Scotia theatre. Also among the nods are Workshirt Opera‘s Tom at the Farm and HomeFirst […]
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KAMP’s survival songs
KAMP To November 11 Neptune Theatre Scotiabank Stage, 1593 Argyle Street $30-$50 neptunetheatre.com “It blew my mind. I thought, ‘This is a musical begging to be written,’” says Garry Williams. Williams was visiting Sachsenhausen, a Nazi concentration camp north of Berlin. He learned the site had housed a sub-camp for homosexual men, “so they wouldn’t […]
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Fall Arts: Chasing Champions by Ship’s Company Theatre
Chasing Champions October 25-27, 8pm (Oct 27 2pm mat) Alderney Landing, 2 Ochterloney Street $30 ($10 students) ticketpro.ca The bar at the Lord Nelson is abuzz on a Friday afternoon caught between summer’s fading grasp and the Atlantic International Film Festival’s opening weekend frenzy. Jacob Sampson sits in a booth up top, away from the […]
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Coast 25: EST. 1993
SHAKESPEARE BY THE SEA “My first visit to Point Pleasant Park, I saw the Cambridge Battery and then the Fort Ogilvie and thought, ‘Wow, these are great places. I wonder if anything is going on here.’ And nothing was. But then I found out that it was more difficult than I thought. In fact, prior […]
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SLUT: The Play puts a spotlight on consent
SLUT: The Play Monday, May 28, 2pm & 7:30pmNeptune Theatre Scotiabank Stage $20 (Stages passes $20-$43) neptunetheatre.com Shit goes down in SLUT: The Play: First at a house, then in a cab, then at a party, then all over school. Sixteen-year-old Joey Del Marco is sexually assaulted—or is she?—by three boys, her old friends, well-liked. […]
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The year on stage
The Boat, Theatre New Brunswick Presented by TNB at Neptune’s Studio Theatre, Ryan Griffiths’ The Boat is an adaptation of Alistair MacLeod’s beloved short story of the same name. It is a deeply affecting memory play about the lives of Cape Breton fisherman, beautifully written and impeccably acted here. Bone Cage, Matchstick Theatre A great […]
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Review: The Archive of Missing Things
A shroud of mystery surrounds Zuppa’s latest theatrical foray. Not so much a play as an interactive game, The Archive of Missing Things is experienced alone at a computer in Dalhousie’s Killam Library. The library is open during the show, so students walk around, as do the actors. We are told many times by a […]
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Review: TreeGirl and The West Woods
TreeGirl TreeGirl is the latest play from Haligonian writer Meghan Hubley. The story follows Laurel (Keelin Jack) a palliative care nurse who is haunted by her former patient Audrey (Martha Irving) and so climbs up a tree to contemplate life and be somewhere “new”. Crossing Laurel’s path on his way to the cemetery is Audrey’s […]
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Missing + you
The Archive of Missing Things May 15-27 Dalhousie Killam Library 6225 University Avenue, $25-$30 stages.tickethalifax.com Dalhousie’s Killam Library is the setting for Zuppa Theatre’s latest creation, The Archive of Missing Things, the company’s first new show in two years. Described as an “ambient drama,” it’s part-game and part-live performance, where audience members are given tablets and […]
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Tompkinsville celebrates Cape Breton history
Tompkinsville November 23-December 4 Scotiabank Studio, 1593 Argyle Street neptunetheatre.com After its debut tour last year, Tompkinsville is coming home. The play, written by Lindsay Kyte with music by Ian Sherwood, has been developed since 2007. In 2015 the show premiered in Oakville, ON, before touring across Ontario and Nova Scotia. While performing in a […]
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Breaking: aliens attack
The War of the Worlds Friday, November 4, 8pm The World Trade and Convention Centre, Summit Suite, 8th floor $20 You will have already heard the news by the time you read this. What began as a strange object landing on a farm in the Annapolis Valley, has, within hours, turned into a world-awide alien […]
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Stages theatre festival is playing around for two weeks
Eastern Front Theatre’s new artistic director Jeremy Webb wants the Stages Festival to appeal to a wide audience, and that’s reflected in this year’s jam-packed lineup. The two-week-long festival is offering a smorgasbord of entertainment including comedy, dance and plays in various stages of development. There’s theatre for kids and theatre for young people. And […]
