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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Theatre review:Othello at SBTS
For the uninitiated, Othello is the story of an entitled white boy who thinks he deserves a promotion and decides to frame his boss’ wife as having an affair with the man that he did promote, only to have him fly into a homicidal rage and kill her. The individual performances are outstanding: Kathryn McCormack […]
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Queer erasure on stage
Since Kamp began its readings and workshop performances in 2015, much of its buzz and accolades surrounded the cast, which has been a showcase for many local queer performers who audiences have never seen on stage. “I remember someone asking me who all these people were,” says Garry Williams, co-creator, with Jamie Bradley, of the […]
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Theatre review: The Woodcutter at the Bus Stop
Matchstick Theatre ventures deep into the forest with The Woodcutter, a play written by Don Hannah and helmed by its resident director Jake Planinc. An ambitious one-hander, the show rests on the performance of its only actor, Sébastien Labelle. Labelle surrenders himself entirely to the role of Ted, a man navigating the dark forest that […]
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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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Jazz Fest: Pantayo
“It kinda felt like cultural knowledge FOMO.” That’s how Kat Estacio explains the feeling that became Toronto gong-punk ensemble Pantayo. The group—an all-women collective of immigrant and second-generation Filipinos—grew out of a desire to form a deeper connection with their culture and identities. And so together they dove into the history and sheet music of […]
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Review: Alice in Wonderland at The Cambridge Battery
Shakespeare By The Sea opens its first show of the season with Alice in Wonderland. A remount of a previous production, the family show will run in repertoire this summer with Othello and Twelfth Night. This barbershop musical has Alice (Melissa McGoogan) fall through the rabbit hole to learn an important lesson about self-confidence. The show […]
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SLUT: The Play puts a spotlight on consent
SLUT: The Play Monday, May 28, 2pm & 7:30pmNeptune Theatre Scotiabank Stage $20 (Stages passes $20-$43) neptunetheatre.com Shit goes down in SLUT: The Play: First at a house, then in a cab, then at a party, then all over school. Sixteen-year-old Joey Del Marco is sexually assaulted—or is she?—by three boys, her old friends, well-liked. […]
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A person-to- person play
Landline: Halifax to Victoria visit halifaxfringe.tickethalifax.com for time slots and instructions May 17-19 How much would you open up to a stranger? What if you were given a phone number, an audio track and knew nothing about this stranger except that they were listening to the same thing as you, at that very moment? This […]
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Review: In A World Created By A Drunken God at Neptune
For Torontonian Jason (Sean Hauk), life is turned upside down when a stranger named Harry (Jeff Schwager) comes knocking at his door with the news that he is Jason’s half-brother. Their father, who abandoned Jason and his mother 30 years ago, is dying of kidney failure. The news of this man’s failing health fails to […]
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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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Shakespeare By The Sea announces 25th season lineup
It was much ado about everything for Halifax theatre company Shakespeare By The Sea, whose season launch last night also marked its 25th anniversary. The event was one steeped in celebration and fond reminiscing from alumni who shared their favourite memories of the theatre company. Emceed by co-artistic directors Jesse MacLean and Elizabeth Murphy, the […]
