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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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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Life is in the Small Things
Small Things November 10-11, 7:30pm November 12, 4pm & 8:30pm November 13, 2pm & 7:30pm Neptune Studio Theatre, 1593 Argyle Street $30-$52 Birdy (Heather Rankin) has been hired as Patricia’s housekeeper. Patricia (Jenny Munday) is a retired school teacher, measured and intellectual. Birdy is a ball of energy who will talk about anything just to […]
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Best Female Theatre Actor
Gold Winner Stephanie MacDonald Silver Winner Susan LeBlanc Bronze Winner Mary Colin Chisholm Stephanie MacDonald spent the past year performing alone and in ensembles, down in Wolfville, on Gottingen Street and over at the Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival in productions as disparate as Lee-Anne Poole’s queer comedy Short Skirt Butch, the fact-based drama Watching […]
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Edge of Glory
Director Emmy Alcorn has high praise for Stephanie MacDonald. “She’s riveting. So connected. So focused. What she has goes way beyond just talent.” MacDonald, a two-time Merritt Award-winning actor, showcases this talent in Mulgrave Road Theatre’s production of Watching Glory Die, directed by Alcorn. The play, written by acclaimed Canadian playwright Judith Thompson, is inspired […]
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Crazy Sexxxy Cool
It’d be easy to think phone sex, like encyclopedias and proper spelling, faded rapidly from existence with the advent of the internet. After all, why pay for something you can easily get for free? “I thought the same thing,” says Halifax playwright Lee-Anne Poole, “but it’s surprisingly popular.” Poole would know. Her play Talk Sexxxy: the not so sexy […]