KooniWritten and performed by Izad Etermadi Directed by Liza Balkan Kooni begins as a light-hearted comedy full of quips about fashion, working in retail and work crushes. Things soon take an uncomfortable turn once a customer at the upscale boutique where Izad works makes a racist comment. Later, he meets an affable Iraian uber driver, with […]
Queer Acts Theatre Festival
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It’s good to be King of Berlin
King of Berlin July 13-15, 7pm & July 16, 8pm The Marquee Ballroom 2037 Gottingen Street $15+fees tickethalifax.com The Weimar era of Germany encompassed a cultural renaissance sandwiched between the two World Wars, where art and intellect reigned until Hitler rose to power in 1933. (Cabaret is a great example.) It’s the inspiration and partial setting […]
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Queer Acts picks
Queer Acts Theatre Festival July 13-16 The Bus Stop Theatre 2203 Gottingen Street $15+fees tickethalifax.com Queer Acts’ line-up is culturally and creatively diverse, making for a wide-ranging, multiple format look at queerness small and large, personal and universal, across the festival’s four days. Highlights include: fried The multi-disciplinary artist Jade Byard Peek, who curated February’s […]
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Queer Acts is acting up again
There’s been a big change at the Queer Acts Festival, but funnily enough, audiences aren’t going to notice it. “Queer Acts has become its own entity,” explains festival director Adam Reid. “In previous years, it’s been under the management of the Halifax Pride board. But with this change, we can be partners with Pride while […]
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Queer Acts Theatre Fest wants you
Queer Acts Theatre Festival (known colloquially as AWESOME THEATRE TIME, but that may just be between my friends and I. It is also known as a multi-day LGBTQ theatre event held each July during Halifax Pride Week, or, the only LGBTQ theatre festival in the Atlantic provinces) is seeking submissions for their 2013 edition, interested […]
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Self Service: Music, burlesque, poetry and more
Calling all loners! Stewart Legere and Lee-Anne Poole are holding an event this Saturday at the Plutonium Playhouse (doors at 8, show at 9, $10/$15 sliding scale) with you in mind. Dubbed Self Service, the evening features music, poetry, burlesque, drag, theatre and dance performances by Tiny and Hunchy, Rouge Fatale, Tanya Davis, Krista Davis, […]
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Queer Acts, good theatre
It was so hot at the Bus Stop last night that I propose that next year be a clothing-optional Queer Acts Festival and that rainbow coloured Japanese fans be sold in the lobby. However, the heat didn’t stop crowds of enthusiastic theatre-goers from enjoying three great performances. Logan and I Michael McPhee’s 80’s-set coming-of-age story […]
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Logan and I: sexual dealings at Queer Acts
Think back to your first introduction to the theoretical mechanics of sex. Whether the revelations came from your uncomfortable parents, your gleefully “well-informed” friend, or from some dog-eared magazine or well-placed pop-up, chances are you reacted with a mixture of pure disgust and nascent excitement. Logan and I, a one-act play written by actor Michael […]
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Zuppa Theatre’s Queer Acts
Poor Boy lives on. Photo: Scott Munn There will be rainbow-infused drama on Gottingen as Queer Acts, Halifax Pride’s first mini-theatre festival, kicks off. Hosted at the Bus Stop and Paragon theatres from July 20-24, five productions are running through the week, including two from Toronto’s famous Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. See halifaxpride.com for […]