Thu Sep 6, 7pm; Fri Sep 7, 6pm; Sat Sep 8, 11am & 10pm; Sun Sep 9, 12:30pm The Waiting Room, 6040 Almon Street $10/$7 Veronica Steele and Charlotte Weeks have spent the summer driving from London, Ontario with their show Wicked Fountain of Youth, a portrait of a teenager (Weeks) with fetal alcohol syndrome. […]
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Fringe city
The 28th Halifax Fringe Festival is kicking off with over 50 shows across 11 days in venues across the city. Don’t wait for the buzz to build—trust us on these. Ah Hell!: The Words of Dorothy Parker Aug 30, Sep 1-2, Sep 4 & Sep 6 The Old Company Theatre, 2202 Gottingen St $5 ”Dorothy […]
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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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Princess Edward returns in Princess Rules
The Princess Rules To November 11, 8pm (plus 2pm Nov 11) The Waiting Room, 6040 Almon Street $15-$40 adv/$25 door tickethalifax.com “We’ve levelled up a bit,” says Aaron Collier, standing outside of The Waiting Room on Almon Street. “It’s like we went from Nintendo to Super Nintendo.” Collier and his husband Richie Wilcox are the […]
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Review: Tyrant
Director and writer Dan Bray adapted Tyrant from the early-17th century Jacobean play by Thomas Middleton. It tells the story of Govianus (Sarah Deller), a deposed king seeking revenge on their usurper, the unnamed tyrant (Ira Henderson), and plans to do so by stealing the object of his love, the unnamed lady (Colleen MacIsaac). Scheming […]
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Stop Kiss‘ love and tragedy
Stop Kiss Sat Sep 9, 1pm & 7:10pm The Waiting Room, 6040 Almon Street $7/$10 Stop Kiss is Whale Song Theatre’s second show, after a successful sold-out run of Heathers: The Musical last February. “I brought the script to Laura [Thornton], the artistic producer of Whale Song Theatre,” says Emily Jewer, who plays Sara in […]
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Touched by Too Many Angels will have you dying
Touched by Too Many Angels Fri Sep 8, 10:35pm; Sat Sep 9, 8:55pm; Sun Sep 10, 3:20pm & 5:45pm The Waiting Room, 6040 Almon Street $5/$8 Adam Myatt has died and come back as an angel, ready to impart some wisdom onto the people. Recently featured as part of the Queer Acts Theatre Festival, Myatt […]
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Review: Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story
2b Theatre’s latest show tells the true story of the playwright Hannah Moscovitch’s great-grandparents who came to Canada from Romania in 1908. The beloved Ben Caplan is at the helm of the play, guiding the evening along with story and song, leading to flashbacks performed out of a shipping container-turned magnificent modular set. Mary Fay […]
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Old Stock’s dark relevance
Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story May 4-14 The Waiting Room, 6040 Almon Street $20-$35 Traveller’s Curse Teaser from 2b theatre company on Vimeo In 2015, Stephen Harper was much derided for using the term “old stock” during a federal leaders’ debate to describe a group of Canadians. “It was a moment that jolted me,” […]
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The nasty women of LunaSea Theatre
The Donahue Sisters March 16-25 The Waiting Room, 6040 Almon Street $20 tickethalifax.com The four actors who founded LunaSea Theatre more than a decade ago did so to serve a function that should’ve been unnecessary for actors of their stature and experience: Work. Mauralea Austin, Mary-Colin Chisholm, Martha Irving and Sherry Smith were all in […]
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Kick at the Dark Theatre’s dark Christmas
David Sedaris’ Uncomfortable Christmas Holiday Fun Time Hour! The Waiting Room, 6040 Almon Street To December 18 $15/$20 As a break from the typically sentimental Christmas fare, Kick at the Dark Theatre is offering some dark holiday humour with performances of stories written by funny-guy David Sedaris. In its third production, the company is taking […]
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Constellations feels fresh
Marianne and Roland meet cute at a party. She is a physicist, he is a beekeeper. They talk about love, death, string theory, and bees, almost exclusively. The romantic story is a simple one, often told, but the structure of Constellations feels fresh. Scenes are repeated to hilarious or heartbreaking effect as different choices are […]