Harmony-driven, folk-pop vocal group Dark for Dark returns to Halifax tonight. They’re touring on the heels of dropping their newest album, All Dressed. Dark for Dark, comprised of Rebecca Zolkower, Jess Lewis and Melanie Stone, formed in 2012, and All Dressed is their second album. These sweet honeybees will whisk away the work week’s stress […]
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Walter Borden plays 10 characters in his Tightrope update
Juanita Peters was smitten more than 30 years ago when she first read the script for Tightrope Time: Ain’t Nuthin’ More Than Some Itty Bitty Madness Between Twilight and Dawn. The play, written by Walter Borden, told the story of a young man growing up black and gay in rural Nova Scotia, and was being […]
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Flat Fee: A Tale of Two Bureaucracies launches Sommerhalder campaign
[Image-1] The musty scent of an old, soggy mop that permeated The Bus Stop Theatre on Saturday evening didn’t dampen Brenden Sommerhalder’s mood as he anxiously awaited the arrival of guests. Sommerhalder was preparing to make an official announcement about his upcoming run for city council, which was prefaced by the one-off performance of the […]
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An encore for Atlantic Fringe Festival
The 25th Atlantic Fringe Festival back in September was a stellar affair, but if you missed it, don’t despair. Re-Fringed, a mini-festival featuring some of the most popular shows from AFF 2015, is coming to the Bus Stop Theatre March 23 through 26. The five shows which are being remounted represent a variety of theatrical […]
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Oppression, gossip and Hedda Gabler
There’s nothing warm and fuzzy about Hedda Gabler. In fact, the titular character in Ibsen’s 1890 drama about a spirited young woman trapped in a boring marriage is sly, cruel and totally self-involved. But according to actor Margaret Legere, that doesn’t mean the character is not relatable, and perhaps even a teensy bit likeable. “She […]
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Oppression, gossip and Hedda Gabler
There’s nothing warm and fuzzy about Hedda Gabler. In fact, the titular character in Ibsen’s 1890 drama about a spirited young woman trapped in a boring marriage is sly, cruel and totally self-involved. But according to actor Margaret Legere, that doesn’t mean the character is not relatable, and perhaps even a teensy bit likeable. “She […]
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All Dressed Up
In the dead of last winter, living alone for the first time and unemployed, Dark for Dark’s Rebecca Zolkower spent a lot of time just playing guitar and writing songs. “I like watching winter from the window,” she says. Even though she wasn’t feeling inspired about the writing, when the spring arrived Zolkower took her bandmates—singers […]
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Getting intimate with Steven Lambke
“I definitely excluded rock as much as I could,” says Canadian folk singer Steven Lambke over the phone in his Toronto home. “I have too much of that in my past and musical background.” That background includes being the guitarist for Canadian indie rock band The Constantines, and fronting his own band Baby Eagle and […]
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Quiet Parade breaks out the fog rock
Members of Halifax’s Quiet Parade have difficulty defining their sound—and that’s how they like it. “Often, the term that I give our band is ‘fog rock,’” says frontperson and lyricist Trevor Murphy in a phone interview ahead of Thursday’s IDOW show. The group mixes sad and hopeful lyrics with airy instrumentals to create a sound […]
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Listen to our playlist full of In the Dead of Winter artists
The Coast’s IN THE DEAD OF WINTER Playlist WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO MEET IN DREAMS? by TYLER MESSICK Loyalty by The Weather Station Even (single) by Dark for Dark Days Of Heaven by Steven Lambke Windows – Single by Gianna Lauren Quiet Parade by Quiet Parade People by The Burning Hell Big Volcano, Small […]
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Stewart Legere brings I Am My Own Wife to life
Back in the early ’90s, playwright Doug Wright conducted a series of interviews with Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a transvestite who had survived, and thrived, both in Nazi Germany and under the Communist regime in East Berlin. For Wright, who grew up gay in America’s Bible Belt, von Mahlsdorf appeared to be gay-icon material: an outsider […]
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Steward Legere brings I Am My Own Wife to life
Back in the early ’90s, playwright Doug Wright conducted a series of interviews with Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a transvestite who had survived, and thrived, both in Nazi Germany and under the Communist regime in East Berlin. For Wright, who grew up gay in America’s Bible Belt, von Mahlsdorf appeared to be gay-icon material: an outsider […]