Seasons Friday, April 21 & Saturday, April 22, 8pm The Bus Stop Theatre 2203 Gottingen Street $10 tickethalifax.com When you think of classical music, the tune that comes to mind might be Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. It was re-composed as a minimalist piece by Max Richter in 2012, and once again is the subject of re-imagined post-modernity. […]
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SYNC or swim
SYNC x StART Festival: Century Egg, Crossed Wires & Mikaylaa States Friday, March 24, 8:30pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street, free The Atlantic Filmmakers’ Co-operative and Forward Music Group have connected two artistic communities via SYNC, a program matching filmmakers and musicians to produce low-budget, high-resource videos. Screening as part of this weekend’s […]
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Review: Groupthink
How much of what we do is an expression of our individuality, and how much is a form of mimicry? Groupthink, a new dance show from Nostos Collectives, explores and muddies these questions, using six talented performers and a killer soundtrack. The choreography shows the dancers imitating and influencing one another, sometimes evoking a marionette […]
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Heathers: The Musical wants to know your damage
Heathers: The Musical To Feb 26 The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street facebook.com/whalesongtheatre “What’s your damage, Heather?” asked Winona Ryder in Heathers, the gleefully R-rated, violence-laden satire of high school that contains a sobering message about the emotional and physical repercussions of bullying at its wry centre. That was 1988, but the film’s legacy […]
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Review: Re-Fringed Day Three
Re-Fringed February 15-18 The Bus Stop Theatre 2203 Gottingen St. www.tickethalifax.com Speaking in Tongues: African Nova Scotian Storytellers An evening of true stories told by members of the African Nova Scotian community, Speaking in Tongues is an entertaining, provocative, and indispensable slice of oral history of our province. 89 year-old Wanda Robson, sister of Viola […]
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Review: Re-Fringed Day Two
Re-Fringed February 15-18 The Bus Stop Theatre 2203 Gottingen St. www.tickethalifax.com The Princess Show Aaron Collier plays Princess Edward, a superstar in a strange land who must battle monsters and storms to save both herself and her partner Abel. A precisely choreographed and lip-synced performance with a magical projected backdrop of stunning animation, The Princess […]
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Review: Re-Fringed Day One
Re-Fringed February 15-18 The Bus Stop Theatre 2203 Gottingen St. www.tickethalifax.com The Wrath of Ponzi This one-hour comedy-horror play won the 2016 Atlantic Fringe Award for Best New Play. It’s the story of a pyramid scheme’s victims and a sales meeting gone very wrong. The writing is strong, the laughs are frequent, and the performances […]
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Re-Fringed takes two
Re-Fringed February 15-18 The Bus Stop Theatre 2203 Gottingen Street tickethalifax.com If you want to move the clock back and pretend it’s the end of summer, Re-Fringed has your ticket. “Re-Fringed is a mini festival highlighting a small selection of shows from the Atlantic Fringe Festival,” says festival director Lee-Anne Poole. “The Fringe festival in […]
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Nation a meditative sonic experience
I am Chandelier. This is my machine. And so we are introduced to Aaron Collier’s musical persona and Nation’s puppet master of sorts. Nation is created by Collier along with Richie Wilcox, Nick Bottomley and Matt Miller. Collier conducts from his DJ table, backed by a 30-foot wide projection screen with immersive videos of landscapes […]
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Revenge is sweet in The Spanish Tragedy
The Spanish Tragedy Written by Thomas Kyd & Adapted by Dan Bray Directed by Dan Bray The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street November 15th to 20th $15-$25 Thomas Kyd wrote The Spanish Tragedy in the late 16th century, a play that would become terribly famous and inspire such minor works as Hamlet. Halifax’s Villain’s […]
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Gender-fucking royalty
The Princess Show Thursday, September 8, 8:30pm Saturday, September 10, 1:30pm Sunday, September 11, 4:10pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $11 Princess Edward has learned some truths about the world, and she’s here to share her wisdom. In an epic journey of drag, music, anime, lip-synching, claymation and more, Princess courageously confronts apocalyptic […]
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Laughing at death with fringe ambassador Nancy Kenny
Everybody Dies in December Thursday, September 8, 10pm Friday, September 9, 5:15pm Saturday, September 10, 4:40pm Sunday, September 11, 8:50pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $10 Theatre-goers will find the award-winning playwright Nancy Kenny lying atop a mortuary slab as they enter the performer’s newest one-person show, Everybody Dies in December, during the […]