The Wearable Art Show Feb 28, 6-8pm & 9-11pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $10/$20 I n the mental space between haute couture and your best outfit—somewhere between the wardrobe changes on a Madonna tour and a well-accessorized variety show—rest the knotty, throbbing aspirations of the Wearable Art Show. “The first time I […]
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Hair love for Halifax
The Braid Couture Art Show Feb 15, 8pm Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street braidcoutureshow.com $35-$45 From ombré hair to pastel colours, hair trends come and go. But braids, from cornrows to the French variety, have long been a hairstyle staple across cultures. Tara Lynn Taylor is organizer of the Braid Couture Art Show, happening […]
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Angel Bat Dawid soars
Angel Bat Dawid w/NAT Chantel, New Hermitage Sat Jan 25, 8pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $20/PWYC When she was young, Angel Bat Dawid went with her father to watch the 1984 Mozart biopic Amadeus. It was there that everything clicked for her: she wanted to be a musician. “I remember sitting in […]
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The Handmade Film Collective proves DIY does it better
Handmade Film Screening from Coast to Coast Tue Jan 28, 7-9pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street Free The Handmade Film Collective is partnering with the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative to organize a free screening celebrating the art of handmade, analogue film. The screening—a much-needed cure to the glut of CGI on view at the […]
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Gabrielle Papillon wants to see you Shout
Gabrielle Papillon w/Gianna Lauren Nov 30 The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street 7pm $25 Gabrielle Papillon will take you on a journey through social anxiety to a new kind of bravery with her art-pop album Shout. “If you start off at the beginning of the record,” Papillon says, “that song is like anxiety brain.” She’s […]
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Zomblet apocalypse
Zomblet Oct 24-25, 8pm; Oct 26-27, 2pm & 8pm The Bus Stop Theatre 2203 Gottingen Street $15-$30 T en years ago, when Dan Bray and Colleen MacIsaac began helming Villain’s Theatre (then known as Vile Passéist), they mainly aimed to stage plays by Shakespeare’s unsung peers. But, after mounting many a show by Marlowe, Middleton […]
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To a T.
T. Thomason w/Zamani, X Thu Oct 3, 8pm The Bus Stop Theatre 2203 Gottingen Street $12/$15 There’s a moment on track six of T. Thomason’s new, eponymous album that bobs across the listener’s consciousness. It is equal parts siren song and buyer beware. “Queen of hearts, I’m the King of Spades, always digging my own […]
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Giant Killer Shark: the Musical will sink its Jaws into you.
Giant Killer Shark: the Musical Sat Sep 7, 11am & 8:45pm; Sun Set 8, 2:55pm & 10pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $13/$10 Amanda Mullally has always had a flair for the dramatic. The co-star of Giant Killer Shark: The Musical, a comedic reworking of Jaws, recalls a PEI childhood heavy with dramaturgy: […]
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The Encounters of an Adventurous Snail blends live music and shadow puppetry
The Encounters of an Adventurous Snail Thu Sep 5, 1pm & 8:30pm; Fri Sep 6, 8pm; Sat Sep 7, 6pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $10/$7 Logan Robins tells people that it was a high school production of Little Shop of Horrors that saw the writer-director’s interest spark in puppets, but, in fact, […]
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T. Roy’s Building 17: A Conspiracy In One Act draws the ugly face of the military industrial complex
Building 17: A Conspiracy In One Act Fri Sep 6, 6:45pm Sat Sep 7, 7:30pm Sun Sep 8, 12:20pm & 5:30pm The Bus Stop Theatre 2203 Gottingen Street PWYC T. Roy remembers watching TV as the Berlin Wall fell. “You could feel the emotion of people trying to break down barriers and it was of […]
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Assassins creed
Assassins June 25-30, 8pm (and 2pm Sat-Sun) The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $10-$25 whalesongassassins.eventbrite.com A ssassins gets straight to the point in the title: It’s about the nine men and women who have attempted to or did murder an American president. It’s also a musical, giving each assassin an opportunity to explain themselves […]
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Council approves conditional funding for The Bus Stop Theatre
The Bus Stop Theatre’s last Hail Mary has paid off—for now. At regional council on Tuesday, every seat was full with members of the arts community, some of whom had to sit in overflow seating. Councillor Steve Streatch described the scene best when he said, “My god, the difference a week can make.” Last week, […]