10 Things I Hate About Taming of the Shrew By Gillian English Perhaps you were also in grade 11 when the 1999 film 10 Things I Hate About You came out, one of many Shakespeare adaptations for teens popular at the time. Perhaps you also watch it every few years with your friends and talk […]
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Halifax Fringe 2019 – Day 4
Same Boat presents: New Wave By Same Boat Same Boat bills its sketch comedy show, New Wave, as “like a seventh installment of Shrek if Kids in the Hall wrote it.” While invoking KITH sets a pretty high, nigh unreachable, bar, that’s a pretty apt description of Wave’s mixture of absurdity and exuberant vulgarity. In […]
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Halifax Fringe 2019 – Day 3
Great Kettle for the People By Troy Ginter I wanted to like Great Kettle more than I did. Fussy old ladies speaking in that Maritime accent about what makes the best cup of tea makes me homesick. For those of us who grew up in certain rural Maritime towns at certain times, it is an […]
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Halifax Fringe 2019 – Day 2
@howtoplaywithzachfaie By Zach Faye I watched the first instalment of the incredibly earnest and possibly sinister Zach Faye’s Instagram livestream and I’m not quite sure what it is yet but I did it while eating a burrito from the comfort of my bed so I am already sold. A tale about a man and his […]
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Halifax Fringe 2019 – Day 1
Halifax Fringe 2019 is here. That means over 350 performances, over 55 shows, over 11 days, in 10 venues across the city. The 29th annual festival kicked off last night with the always popular Opening Night Sampler, held at the Neptune Scotiabank Stage and hosted by Cathy Jones and Bill Wood. Over the coming days, […]
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REVIEW: Singing for water with Xara Choral Theatre
The energy before a dress rehearsal is always a little bit frantic. Nothing starts on time as lights, sound, and costumes get adjusted, performers confirm their places, and the director scans the room for anything out of place. Then the lights go down, and the heightened silence fills the room with anticipation. Xara Choral Theatre […]
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Evergreen House serves tea time with a twist—of fate
Evergreen Murder Mystery Night Sat Aug 24, 7-9:30pm, Evergreen Historic House 26 Newcastle Street, Dartmouth $25-$100 I t all started when Aries Casteel, a heritage interpreter at the Dartmouth Heritage Museum, was tasked with creating some seasonal programming. “I loved Evergreen House because it’s an old Victorian home,” Casteel explains. “I was inspired by a […]
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How The Light Lies (On You) illuminates failure’s long shadow
How the Light Lies (On You) Aug 8, 9, 7:30pm; Aug 11 2:30pm, 7:30pm Art Bar + Projects, 1873 Granville Street Pay What You Can/$10-$30 Sometimes, the risks we take don’t result in triumph or success.In the upcoming production How the Light Lies (On You), failure and disappointment are examined using art, poetry and a […]
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The Power of Preston is in its people
The Power of Preston Aug 13-14, 7pm Alderney Landing Theatre, 2 Ochterloney Street, Dartmouth $15/$20 W hen Anne Johnson-McDonald picks up the phone, a quick half-hour before she’ll have to rush out the door to rehearsals, she’s ready to explain exactly where the name of her latest musical comes from: “The power of Preston is […]
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Halifax, meet Hedwig
Just in time for Pride, Halifax audiences will have a chance to wig out and enjoy what Rolling Stone has dubbed “the best rock musical ever.” The Tony Award-winning Hedwig and the Angry Inch, written by John Cameron Mitchell with music and lyrics by Stephen Trask, follows the story of Hedwig Robinson, a genderqueer singer […]
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Park Wizards
The Wizard of Oz June 30-August 31 Cambridge Battery, Point Pleasant Park by donation ($25 sweet seat) shakespearebythesea.ca We’ve had a lot of conversations about, ‘What is iconic? What are people going to be expecting?’” muses Jesse MacLean, director of Shakespeare By The Sea’s season opener, an adaptation of The Wizard of Oz. “We don’t […]
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Assassins creed
Assassins June 25-30, 8pm (and 2pm Sat-Sun) The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $10-$25 whalesongassassins.eventbrite.com A ssassins gets straight to the point in the title: It’s about the nine men and women who have attempted to or did murder an American president. It’s also a musical, giving each assassin an opportunity to explain themselves […]