The Children May 9-19 The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $5-$50, tickethalifax.com Martha Irving first laid eyes on Laura Vingoe-Cram when she was just a baby in a bassinet. Fast-forward some three decades: The two women are in conversation, listening carefully to each other, sitting in a top-floor rehearsal studio at Neptune Theatre. Vingoe-Cram […]
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River of Diamonds’ Touch of life
River of Diamonds w/Stewart Legere Saturday, April 20, 7:30pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street, $15 In the middle of an otherwise steady conversation about their music, Michael Belyea and Michelle Elrick find themselves at a loss for words. Discussing their shares appreciation for the natural world, Belyea remembers last week’s ubiquitous unveiling of […]
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Hello City’s powerful play
Hello City presents: The Hello Baby Show Tuesday, April 23, 7:30pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $5/$10/$20 The improvisational troupe Hello City is named after a song about how Halifax sucks. “The same people, the same drinks and the same music, the same quicksand / I think this harbour town is waist-deep and […]
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A handmade tale
Handmade Film Screening Tuesday, January 29, 7pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street free Of the art forms, filmmaking is usually one of the most collaborative—anyone who’s sat through the credits of a Marvel movie (all of you) knows this. But there is a different kind of filmmaker, one who makes movies alone, by […]
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Listening deep with Joe McPhee
“Possible, poetic, hypothesis—it’s all po.” Underground jazz legend Joe McPhee is listing a string of words connected through the phonetic sound “po”—a reminder, he says, of the creative possibilities of approaching the world from a slightly different angle. McPhee, 79, attributes the theory to the philosopher Edward De Bono, whose book Lateral Thinking: A Textbook […]
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Fall Arts: Fem Fest
Fem Fest Saturday, September 22, 7:30pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $20 eventbrite.ca April marked the 100th anniversary of Nova Scotia women getting the vote—or at least most of them. “African Nova Scotians as well were given the right, but they had to be Commonwealth citizens and own property,” notes Kathy France. France […]
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Fringe 2018: She Wolf
Live Comedy Album Recording Sat Sep 8, 9:30pm; Sun Sep 9, 1pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street, $10/$7 She Wolf Thu Sep 6, 5:30pm; Fri Sep 7, 10:30pm; Sat Sep 8, 2:30pm; Sun Sep 9, 11:30am The Bus Stop Theatre, $15/$12 Gillian English has a lot to say and she talks fast. Having […]
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Fringe 2018: Herbie Dragons and Oh Crap, My Scarf!
Oh Crap, My Scarf! Thu Sep 6, 7pm; Sun Sep 8, 5:30pm The Bus Stop Theatre 2203 Gottingen Street, $7 Herbie Dragons Thu Sep 6, 8pm; Fri Sep 7, 7:30pm; Sat Sep 8, 1 & 8pm; Sun Sep 9, 5:30 & 8:30pm The Bus Stop Theatre, $10 Kevin Hartford is having a busy Fringe: Oh Crap, […]
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Matchstick Theatre goes into the woods
The Woodcutter July 11-15, 8pm (and 2pm Sat-Sun) The Bus Stop Theatre 2203 Gottingen Street $20/$15 (students/seniors/unwaged) tickethalifax.com The premise of The Woodcutter is simple: A man, alone in the woods. “You’re not supposed to know whether he’s on the run or just hiking,” says director Jacob Planinc. “Is he a man who’s lost in the […]
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OBEY XI: Sarah Hennies
Sarah Hennies w/Melody McKiver Friday, May 25, 7:30pm Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $20, all ages Contralto screening Friday, May 25, 6pm Halifax North Memorial Public Library, 2285 Gottingen Street free Somewhere between starting drum lessons at age nine and studying modern classical music at grad school, avant percussionist and composer Sarah Hennies began […]
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The singular becomes universal at Mayworks
Heavy and It’s A Girl! May 4-6 The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen St $10 ($15 for both) mayworkshalifax.ca “We have to address how we teach what different is in the first place,” says Alexis Milligan. “We really do label things as different and put an X through them or circle them or remove them, […]
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The Olympic Symphonium: We have fun
The Olympic Symphonium w/Jennah Barry Friday, April 20, 8:30pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $20 It can be difficult for a band with four distinct songwriters with families and jobs to settle down to make an album. Fredericton-based indie folk outfit The Olympic Symphonium got away from home and went to the south […]