Theatre

The Neptune season-opener Romeo and Juliet is a gorgeous production bedecked with acres of fine fabrics and cleverly constructed sets. However, this show is not just a treat for the eyes, but for the ears as well. Shakespeare’s familiar words spring to life in the mouths of this remarkable cast. Local actress Sarah English is […]

Actor Ryan Doucette’s new show Should I Be Doing This? uses humour to look at those universal moments when we all question our next step. It explores the idea of bringing the everyday into profundity as well as the pleasures and awkwardness of first experiences. The first step is always the hardest, and it brings with it […]

It’s often said that cancer touches all of us, so it’s not surprising that two plays at this year’s Atlantic Fringe Festival, Ed’s Story: The Dragon Chronicles and Vanishing Twins, centre on the disease. Both works make use of the inspiring, healing and teaching power of theatre to explore the effects of cancer on the […]

The Bus Stop Theatre doesn’t look like much. Ask for a tour, and managing director Clare Waqué will show you the small but newly renovated lobby; the short but newly painted black box stage; the cumbersome 70-year-old safes in the back room, remnants from the venue’s former pharmacy days and her office, a small desk […]

In Village Wooing, Kristin Howell plays a quick-witted, strong-willed force of nature who sets her sights on an eligible widower played by Marty Burt. Howell, a classic, porcelain-skinned “English” beauty, is perfectly cast. Her delivery of Shaw’s charming, cheeky words is spot-on. Burt does a fine job of playing the self-contained gentleman who is drawn […]

September 2-12 Tickets and schedule at atlanticfringe.ca. Call 471-7081 for any changes. Does the Fringe scare you? It’s OK, it can be a little weird and at times moderately painful (let’s be honest, not everyone is cut out for off-off-off Broadway), but it can also be amazing, and an experience everyone should try. And you […]

There’s a delicious contrast in stepping from a sunny street in Wolfville into the darkened Al Whittle Theatre where an eerie mist billows gently from offstage. It’s even more delicious to discover that sometimes a well-performed classic psychological thriller like A Woman in Black can still be scarier than blood-and-guts-spewing horror flick. The credit for […]

If you like your theatre hard-hitting and thought-provoking, then Blackbird is the play for you. You won’t like what you hear and see‚ but you won’t be able to turn away. The set is a dirty, claustrophobia-inducing lunchroom (within the claustrophobia-inducing Living Room Theatre), and the action is viewed by the audience through Venetian blinds, […]

There’s a new theatre company in town whose mandate is to make you laugh—and judging by the opening shows, it’s doing a fine job. Wit’s End Theatre’s productions of David Ives’s clever Sure Thing and Christopher Durang’s disturbingly delightful Titanic are an inspired pairing that makes for lots of laughter. Sure Thing is like a […]

There are twists and turns aplenty in Anthony Shaffer’s clever play Sleuth, and it’s a tricky work to review without giving away any of its many surprises. However, even if you go in knowing the entire plot, great performances by Ed Thomason and Jeremy Webb make it worthwhile to see the Festival Antigonish production. Thomason […]