Theatre

Arthur Miller’s classic, thought-provoking work The Crucible is even more powerful when set in an eerily atmospheric copse at Ross Creek. The three-hour-long play simply flies by as one gets drawn into the dark and disturbing world of the Salem Witch Trials. Graham Percy does a memorable turn as the gravely conflicted John Proctor and […]

Families. Sigh. We all have them, whether we like it or not, and quite often we do not like them. Playwright Lee-Anne Poole has done a wonderful job of capturing that love/hate relationship in her new work Splinters. It’s the story of Belle, a strong young woman who shattered her mother’s dreams when she came […]

Odds are no one on earth has ever said “nigger fag” as candidly as Berend McKenzie. “I’m not one to sugarcoat things,” he says. “If we ban those words, does that mean they don’t exist? And if they don’t exist, what happens to my stories of being called a nigger?” The answer to that question […]

Summertime in Halifax holds many treasures. Shakespeare By the Sea’s production of Treasure Island is the perfect way to take in the wonder of Point Pleasant Park and experience a modern day take on Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale. Directed by Jesse MacLean, the retelling of Treasure Island features a fantastic cast of pirates, a […]

In a short time, NSCAD University’s new fashion department has established itself as a creative, eco-conscious style force, producing some talented emerging designers. But now, that sunny upstairs studio in Granville Mall is becoming a production site and a starting point for local theatre costume design, too. Last year grad Akshay Tyagi, whose stage-minded dresses […]

The Black Eyed Peas might rock that body, while softball leagues sulk in the suburbs about losing their fields, but The Common: An Experience For One Person In A Public Place captures the heart and history of that contentious green space with the complicated reputation. The Common is a site-specific play that takes you on […]

If you like the way that television’s brilliant Mad Men offers a tiny window into the American psyche of the early 1960s, you’ll like Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry Men with its social commentary on the US in the 1950s. The TAG production of his play captures the vintage feel beautifully in both the drab jury […]

Three Southern women—a vixen named Sybil, a pious, pie-baking homebody named Weetsie, and a sweet-yet-smart romantic named Tood—are thrust together after their husbands (all brothers) head off to war. When a reporter (beautifully played by Tamara Perlmutter) from Life magazine is sent to cover the story, she discovers appearances can be misleading and that the […]

Playfully profound? Profoundly playful? No, A Rescue Demonstration is probably best described as profound AND playful. This new work by Katie Swift (above) and Stewart Legere tells the story of a nurse and a paramedic who meet at the scene of a tragedy and begin—or perhaps rekindle—an unconventional relationship. The story flits between a past, […]

The question of what makes a hero(ine) is something local actor and playwright Karen Bassett (pictured, left) has asked herself for years. “I saw a play about male pirates”—with male characters playing the rebellion and adventure—“and the female roles were all about relationships,” says Bassett. “I thought: That’s it? That’s all you’ve got? Then I […]