A Bitter Shrew Thursday, September 8, 6:30pm Friday, September 9, 8pm Saturday, September 10, 10pm Sunday, September 11, 6pm The Company House, 2202 Gottingen Street $10 Drag Queen Stole My Dress Friday, September 9, 9:30pm Sunday, September 11, 4:30pm The Company House, 2202 Gottingen Street $10 Some people, when asked their greatest achievement, freeze. They […]
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Atlantic Fringe 2016—Day 6
A Bitter Shrew Butterscotch Palace Merrily We Prance About A Bitter Shrew written and performed by Gillian English Gillian English returns with two shows. Her shows last year sold out at our fringe, and she’s been winning awards in Montreal, Adelaide, New York. The opening night crowd for A Bitter Shrew was large and laughing. […]
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Atlantic Fringe 2016—Day 5
Table of Contents for this Issue: Dark Matter Everybody Dies in December God Made Me This Way! It’s Greek to Me No Brag, Just Facts Rut The Space Between Dark Matter by Colleen MacIsaac At only 15 minutes, this is a delightful, pensive little Fringe treat, easy to squeeze in between your other shows. Three […]
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Atlantic Fringe 2016—Day 4
Read them all, or jump to a specific review with these links: Midsummer Night’s Dream & Macbeth NOUN Our Summer Home Rabbit Moon: A Tale of Japan Tunnel of Love The Vanishing Woman We’ll Always Have Port Stanley The Wrath of Ponzi Behind the Curtain: the sound and light show Midsummer Night’s Dream & Macbeth […]
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Atlantic Fringe 2016—Day 3
Read them all, or jump to a specific review with these links: Illustrated Lady Mel Malarkey Gets The Bum’s Rush Operation 87 Perk Up Pianist! The Quitter Swordplay: A Play of Swords Illustrated Lady written, performed and tattooed by Sophie Postcroteau Charming. Postcroteau is a great storyteller. The details of the shopping expeditions of her childhood, the […]
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Atlantic Fringe 2016—Day 2
Read them all, or jump to a specific review with these links: Callaghan! And the Wings of the ButterflyHeavy I Guess Last Night I’M CHE GUEVARA, GOD-DAMN IT My First Last Waltz Or The Queer Ages Re-taled Speaking in Tongues—African Nova Scotian Storytellers Callaghan! And the Wings of the Butterfly by Sex T-Rex Sex T-Rex’s […]
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Atlantic Fringe 2016 – Day 1
The reviews are in from the opening night of the Fringe Fesitval. You can just read them all in order, or jump to a specific one with these links: Hummingbird I’m Only One Man The Mom Show or the Most Boring Show Ever Noel James, What’s Welsh for Funny? The Princess Show Stood Up Hummingbird […]
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Fringe Sampler! is the best fest test
Fringe Sampler! Thursday, September 1 7pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street free Going into its 26th year, the Atlantic Fringe Festival is anything but fringe. What was once a deliberately marginal theatrical celebration is not just a big theatre festival—it’s now a major Halifax festival, period. More than 50 productions over 150 performances, spanning 15 […]
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On the fringe of the Fringe Fest, Bud Hunter is also its heart
I’M CHE GUEVARA, GOD-DAMN IT! Friday, September 2, 7:10pm Saturday, September 3, 2pm Sunday, September 4, 7pm Monday, September 5, 2pm and 8:55pm Thursday, September 8, 9:20pm Saturday, September 10, 1:35pm Plan B, 2180 Gottingen Street $4, 40 minutes If you can get to Bud Hunter’s Atlantic Fringe Festival show I’M CHE GUEVARA GOD-DAMN IT! […]
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Theatre review: Only the beast will do
Beauty and the Beast To October 9 Neptune Theatre, 1593 Argyle Street $30-$84 The closing show for Neptune Theatre’s 2006-07 season was a blockbuster hit. Beauty and the Beast was so popular it was held over, closing after 16 weeks only because actors had previously booked engagements. Beauty is again gracing the Neptune stage as […]
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King Lear is a bloody success
King Lear Thursday, August 25; Saturday, August 27; Tuesday, August 30; Friday, September 2, 7pm Cambridge Battery, Point Pleasant Park PWYC (reserved seat $25) It’s no surprise the stage is littered with bodies at the end of King Lear—this is a Shakespearean tragedy, after all. However, what actually surprised me was how much I cared. […]
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Theatre review: As You Like It
Romance is in the air in Point Pleasant Park, as Shakespeare by the Sea brings to life the Bard’s playful, pastoral comedy As You Like It. It’s a story of love of many kinds, from “unrequited” to “at first sight.” Rosalind (Catherine Rainville) is deprived of her father’s love when the cruel Duke Frederick (Henri […]