When Jeremiah Sparks answers The Coast’s phone call one morning this week, his “hello” is a gravelly rubble. He doesn’t mention it, possibly because it’s the sort of wear his usual baritone has gotten used to while starring in Neptune Theatre’s latest play, the one-person musical about a man trapped underground for nine days: Beneath […]
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In Neptune Theatre’s season-opening play, Breton Lalama is Fully Committed
Fully Committed Running until October 10 at Neptune Theatre Tickets at neptunetheatre.com Breton Lalama began preparing for his latest role—a starring turn in Neptune’s season-opening, once-actor play Fully Committed, on until October 10—long before reopening plans meant live performance was back. It was before the theatre announced what its returning slate would look like, and […]
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7 Sure Things happening in Halifax from March 25-31
Anne & Aretha: Kindred Spirits Decorated Halifax writer Evelyn C. White explores the unlikely bond between PEI’s redheaded queen, Anne of Green Gables, and the queen of soul, Aretha Franklin, in this Halifax Public Libraries-sponsored Zoom lecture. Thu Mar 26, 7-8pm, Zoom, free, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81713458352 Related MAJE w/Yohvn Blvck Two local hip hop heavyweights sharing the […]
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Neptune is (sort of) back!
Feb 26 update: As of the most recent COVID-19 restrictions—announced at a Feb 26 provincial press conference—arts and culture events are no longer permitted in HRM until further notice. Read more of the latest news about COVID-19 here. Back when COVID-19 was a new term–back when we were just starting to realize something big was […]
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My favourite room: Robyn Manning’s pink-ceilinged dining room
Robyn Manning’s interior design company, Bricks + Birches, is having a moment. “Things are rocking,” says Manning, “starting to really snowball.” Where she started out doing residential projects—a lot of cottages on Nova Scotia’s rustic north shore or homes for young families in the city, hence the B+B name blending urban and rural—now, coming up […]
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Viola Desmond and the Controlled Damage done
Controlled Damage Feb 4-23; Tue-Fri, 7:30 pm; Sat-Sun 2pm & 7:30pm Neptune Theatre, 1593 Argyle Street $30-$51 Andrea Scott’s new play Controlled Damage—about the life of Viola Desmond—is having its world premiere on Friday at Neptune Theatre. The Coast spoke with the playwright about the continued importance of Desmond’s story. Do you remember when you […]
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The quiet brilliance of Hannah Moscovitch
Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story to Nov 23, 7:30pm with matinees Sat-Sun at 2pm Neptune Theatre, 1593 Argyle Street $30-$60 If you suggest that Hannah Moscovitch is a genius within her earshot, she reacts like a cardiologist being told they’re a hero might: a short laugh, a humble gaze cast downward and a tidy, […]
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A queen claims her crown
The Last Wife Oct 3-4, 7:30pm; Oct 5-6, 2pm & 7:30pm Neptune Theatre, 1593 Argyle Street tickets from $30 There’s a scene in Neptune’s season-opening play, The Last Wife, where Stephanie MacDonald stands, tall and square, trying to not burst out laughing. The play, written by notable playwright Kate Hennig, imagines the interior life of […]
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Gillian English battles the bard with 10 Things I Hate about The Taming of the Shrew
10 Things I Hate about The Taming of the Shrew Thu Sept 5, 8:30pm; Fri Sep 6, 4:30pm; Sat Sep 7, 7pm Neptune Theatre, 1593 Argyle Street $15/$12 “My brand is feminism and anger,” says Gillian English. “I’m feminism and anger.” English is a brilliant, hilarious, award-winning, solo-show-performing Fringe favourite. She speaks fast. She is […]
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Celia Rossiter debates Sex Before Marriage?
Sex Before Marriage? Thu Sept 5, 8:15pm Fri Sept 6, 9:25pm Sat Sept 7, 6:30pm Neptune Theatre, 1593 Argyle Street $5/$3 Cue Salt-N-Pepa: Celia Rossiter wants us to talk about sex. Rossiter attended Dalhousie’s Fountain School of Performing Arts. She dabbled in acting and directing with SMUDS. And, she appeared in Harbourtown by Mark Foster […]
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Visiting A Colony
“There are a lot of coming-of-age films, a lot of teen films, but my goal was to have an honest image of teenagerhood,” says the writer-director Geneviève Dulude-De Celles. “I really wanted to give them that space and take them seriously.” Dulude-De Celles’ second feature A Colony (Une Colonie) arrives at the Halifax Independent Filmmakers’ […]
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Theatre review: Little Thing, Big Thing
There’s a hell of a lot at work in Little Thing, Big Thing. Resurrected by director Jeremy Webb, the Merritt-winning Neptune take on Donal O’Kelly’s play is a venture jam-packed with hints of Hitchcock-esque suspense riddled with madcap antics and a million different feckin’ uses of the f-word. Between moments of beautiful poetic language and […]