I n the odd and moving The Realistic Joneses, on until this weekend at the Park Place Theatre, one married couple moves in next door to another. Jennifer (Kathryn MacLellan) and Bob (Christian Murray) are dealing with his rare terminal illness (well, she is, he’s fading into nothing). Pony (Gil Anderson) and John (Matthew Lumley) […]
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The Waiting Room is over
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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Top 5 local theatre productions
The Weekend Healer By Bryden MacDonald KAZAN CO-OP A devastating family drama from Nova Scotian playwright Bryden MacDonald boasted potent performances from Stephanie MacDonald and Kathryn MacLellan as mother and daughter with a dark past, and even darker future. Let’s Try This Standing By Gillian Clark Keep Good Theatre Company Personal, funny solo show chronicling […]
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The Weekend Healer is diagnosed as excellent theatre
Lindalou (Stephanie MacDonald) is a loving but unconventional mother. Her sensitive, 16-year-old son Curtis (Allie MacDonald) is more like a brother to her since they’re only 15 years a part in age. Lindalou’s estranged mother Betina (Kathryn MacLellan) is focused only on appearances and is willfully blind to the suffering of those around her. When […]
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Best of The Best Brothers
The Best Brothers has received a lot of great reviews, but one that really stands out for director Dean Gabourie came from a woman in a coffee shop in Stratford, Ontario where the show had its debut in 2012. “She said that anyone who has a brother, a sister, a mother or a pet will […]
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Heaven can’t wait
Vision and elbow grease. It’s taken a lot of both to transform the former Acadian Lines bus terminal on Almon Street into The Waiting Room, Halifax’s newest black box theatre. The vision belongs to Kazan Co-op, a theatre company founded in 2011 with a mission to produce compelling contemporary Canadian works. “We started thinking about […]
