To February 24 Neptune Theatre Scotiabank Stage 1593 Argyle Street $30-$46 Closing this weekend on Neptune’s second stage is Rose Napoli’s magnificent study on the issues of consent and the abuse of power from those we trust most. Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells) follows the story of Laura (Celia Koughan), a troubled 15-year-old who discovers newfound […]
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Everyone’s Famous and the viral payday
Everyone’s Famous New episodes Thursdays everyonesfamous.ca It was 1968 when Andy Warhol said everyone would be world-famous for 15 minutes, and he died before the modern internet was invented–he never knew how true this throwaway line would become. The Halifax-produced web series Everyone’s Famous, a third of the way into its second season, knows what’s […]
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Review: The Mystery Play
The Mystery Play is the second installment in the Parrsboro trilogy, a series of mysteries commissioned by the enterprising Ship’s Company Theatre. The plays share the main character of Sister Vivian Salter, a nun with a penchant for sleuthing, played with pluck and aplomb by Mary-Colin Chisholm. This play has Salter doubting her faith and […]
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Gotta have Faith
It’s been a busy year for Halifax screenwriter and playwright Josh MacDonald, with two of his projects, The Corridor and Faith, Fraud and Minimum Wage, screening at the Atlantic Film Festival in September. As he nursed the movies through the long, challenging years of the development process, MacDonald dreamed of the day the finished products […]
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First look at Faith, Fraud & Minimum Wage
Here’s the first peek at Faith, Fraud & Minimum Wage, written by Dartmouth’s Josh MacDonald and based on his play, Halo. The film stars Callum Keith Rennie (24) and Martha MacIsaac (Superbad), and is directed by George Mihalka, who is nominated for DGC’s Best Director of a Feature Film Award for his work on Faith, […]
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Josh MacDonald’s Faith Fraud and Minimum Wage premieres in Shanghai
Callum Keith Rennie and Martha MacIsaac Faith Fraud and Minimum Wage, based on the play Halo by Dartmouth writer Josh MacDonald, gets its premiere faraway from home at the Shanghai Film Festival. Starring Callum Keith Rennie and Martha MacIsaac (Superbad) and directed by George Mihalka, the film follows what happens after a teenager fakes an image of Jesus outside her workplace. The film was selected as part of the Shanghai Film Festival’s Official Selection FOCUS CANADA program. Shot in Spryfield and Shubenacadie during April 2009, MacDonald also wrote the screenplay, and local actors Don Allison and Andrew Bush also appear.
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Josh MacDonald’s stage fright
It’s just before nightfall, but bright rays of what looks like sunlight stream though the windows of a bed and breakfast on Gottingen Street, illuminating a scene of carnage: chairs and sofas overturned, electronic gear strewn about a living room. The set clears and silences as cameras roll. Three young men unlock the front door, […]
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Josh MacDonald’s Halo moves to the big screen
“I’ve done a lot of bracing over the years—I don’t think it’s any huge secret that any low-budget Canadian film has about 10 near-death experiences on its way to fruition,” says Josh MacDonald. “But here we were, first day of photography.” The Dartmouth writer first put the idea for Halo to paper a decade ago […]