Hello City w/Stewart Legere Thursday, January 11, 7:30pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street pwyc Love it or hate it, Halifax isn’t going anywhere. So why not rejoice and commiserate together through the art of theatre and storytelling? If that sounds appealing, the new monthly improv show Hello City aims to highlight the Haligonian […]
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Slut provides a jumping off point for larger discussions
Slut August 24-26 Sir James Dunn Theatre, 6101 University Ave free What is a “slut?” That’s a question that’s been on the minds of over a dozen Halifax women who are bringing Katie Capiello’s play, Slut to the stage, presented by LunaSea Theatre Company. It follows 16-year-old Joey del Marco’s deposition in her sexual assault […]
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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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Queer Acts picks
Queer Acts Theatre Festival July 13-16 The Bus Stop Theatre 2203 Gottingen Street $15+fees tickethalifax.com Queer Acts’ line-up is culturally and creatively diverse, making for a wide-ranging, multiple format look at queerness small and large, personal and universal, across the festival’s four days. Highlights include: fried The multi-disciplinary artist Jade Byard Peek, who curated February’s […]
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It’s good to be King of Berlin
King of Berlin July 13-15, 7pm & July 16, 8pm The Marquee Ballroom 2037 Gottingen Street $15+fees tickethalifax.com The Weimar era of Germany encompassed a cultural renaissance sandwiched between the two World Wars, where art and intellect reigned until Hitler rose to power in 1933. (Cabaret is a great example.) It’s the inspiration and partial setting […]
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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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Neptune Theatre lifts the curtain on its 55th season
As Once enters its last weeks onstage, Neptune Theatre shows no signs of slowing down. After the production ends on May 28, Neptune will start up renovations: The first major changes to the theatre since the “New Neptune Project” in the ’90s. On top of that, July will welcome a summer show to kick off […]
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Twelve actors, four Seasons
Seasons Friday, April 21 & Saturday, April 22, 8pm The Bus Stop Theatre 2203 Gottingen Street $10 tickethalifax.com When you think of classical music, the tune that comes to mind might be Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. It was re-composed as a minimalist piece by Max Richter in 2012, and once again is the subject of re-imagined post-modernity. […]
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Heist stakes
Heist launch party w/Stewart Legere, Manny Dingo, Princess Edward and DJ Almond Breeze Saturday, April 8 at 9pm Mother’s Halifax, 5710 Young Street Free A new live art company is taking over Mother’s Pizza on Saturday night. “Let art take over” is the motto of Heist, the rebranded group formerly known as Angels & Heroes. […]
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Pride & Prejudice’s costume studies
Pride & Prejudice Thursdays to Saturdays, March 16-April 8, 8pm Sunday March 26 and Sunday April 2 at 2pm Pond Playhouse, 6 Parkhill Road $18 Costume designer Susan Hall has watched Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth walk in the garden so many times that, by now, she must have the engagement scene memorized. As the head […]
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The nasty women of LunaSea Theatre
The Donahue Sisters March 16-25 The Waiting Room, 6040 Almon Street $20 tickethalifax.com The four actors who founded LunaSea Theatre more than a decade ago did so to serve a function that should’ve been unnecessary for actors of their stature and experience: Work. Mauralea Austin, Mary-Colin Chisholm, Martha Irving and Sherry Smith were all in […]
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Heathers: The Musical wants to know your damage
Heathers: The Musical To Feb 26 The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street facebook.com/whalesongtheatre “What’s your damage, Heather?” asked Winona Ryder in Heathers, the gleefully R-rated, violence-laden satire of high school that contains a sobering message about the emotional and physical repercussions of bullying at its wry centre. That was 1988, but the film’s legacy […]