THEATRE A Beautiful View October 13-31 at Neptune Theatre, 1593 Argyle Street, $15-$35, 429-7070, neptunetheatre.com Love without labels. That’s what actor-writer-producer Jackie Torrens feels the two women in Daniel MacIvor’s A Beautiful View have spent 20 years working towards. “As humans, there seems to be a need for us to define something, to label it,” […]
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Returning home
Afternoon sunlight shines through the large front windows of Onelight Theatre’s office, a floor above Argyle Street’s busy restaurant row. It casts a warm glow, almost like a stage set, bouncing off painted-red walls and wood floors, maquettes from previous shows, well-worn books on the full shelves. It’s the day after their play The Veil […]
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Charlie Ross is solo Star Wars play’s only hope
Charlie Ross was in the middle of an ordinary childhood, growing up in British Columbia, when Star Wars encased his life like Han Solo was encased in carbonite. “You remember when they first came out, there was no geeky stigma attached to the movies, everybody just loved them,” he says, on the phone from his […]
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Top 5 sure things playing at the Supernova! festival
A Rum for the Money Three Newfoundlanders are on a rum running mission in the middle of the night. They successfully dodge French bullets and evade RCMP cutters, but are hit and broken apart by a mystery ship, leading to an eerie night of survival. Neptune Studio Theatre, 1593 Argyle, Thu May 7, 7pm, Sat […]
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2b, now and forever
It’s a sunny Sunday morning outside Neptune Theatre’s carpentry shop, an inconspicuous spot tucked away on Creighton Street in north end Halifax. With the smell of sawdust mingling with the freshness of spring’s potential, a group of volunteers work together lugging carefully crafted rectangular flats of wood—there are 52 of them in all, each 14 […]
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Zuppa cast: Stewart Legere hurts his foot
The show must go on with Stewart Legere (top right on piano). Last week Tara Thorne wrote our cover story about Zuppa Theatre’s new production Poor Boy and their unusually organic creative process. This week Zuppa received a new challenge, as actor Stewart Legere, who plays pop star Sherman Oakes, hurt his ankle during a […]
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Zuppa powers
On a frigid Saturday afternoon, the cast of Zuppa Theatre’s Poor Boy is gathered in the Neptune Studio, where in four weeks they’ll launch a show that’s changing every day. The set is beginning to come together—long strings through a series of paper sheets, dangling record sleeves, actual vinyl and a suitcase here and there, […]
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Best Theatre
Editor’s note: With its latest Best Theatre win in 2007, Neptune was elevated to the Best of Halifax Hall of Fame. Two-thousand and seven was the most successful year in the 44-year history of Neptune Theatre in terms of bums-on-seats. More people took in a Neptune show than ever before. These days, with so many […]
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Best Theatre
Editor’s note: With its latest Best Theatre win in 2007, Neptune was elevated to the Best of Halifax Hall of Fame. Two-thousand and seven was the most successful year in the 44-year history of Neptune Theatre in terms of bums-on-seats. More people took in a Neptune show than ever before. These days, with so many […]
