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 […]
KAMP
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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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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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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: KAMP
Halifax artists Garry Williams and Jamie Bradley have undertaken a very ambitious project with KAMP. It is an original full-length musical about gay men in a Nazi concentration camp who, despite imminent danger, or in some ways perhaps because of it, create a musical revue in their barrack. It is rich terrain for a story […]