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 […]
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Summer 2019’s must-see theatre productions
To June 22 Dartmouth Players Head over to the Sawmill Playhouse for Dartmouth Players’ summer show, the comedic musical Lucky Stiff. It’s a whodunnit murder-mystery featuring a shoe-salesman named Harry who’s set to inherit his uncle’s vast wealth if he goes to Monte Carlo with him. Trouble begins when the uncle is murdered and Harry’s […]
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Council approves conditional funding for The Bus Stop Theatre
The Bus Stop Theatre’s last Hail Mary has paid off—for now. At regional council on Tuesday, every seat was full with members of the arts community, some of whom had to sit in overflow seating. Councillor Steve Streatch described the scene best when he said, “My god, the difference a week can make.” Last week, […]
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Halifax’s theatre community rallies behind The Bus Stop Theatre Co-op
Sébastien Labelle is perched in a booth at the front of The Bus Stop Theatre, looking out from the window onto Gottingen Street, wearing a rare uneasy expression. On his laptop he listens to a radio interview, waiting for a hint about the fate of the co-op he leads. Broadcasting on News 95.7’s Rick Howe […]
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The asymmetry of Scoop
Five-and-a-half years ago, after having one of her breasts removed at the IWK, Julie Vandervoort was sent home not with painkillers, but with a gift card for a lingerie store. “At the time I was told studies show that women do just as well with regular Tylenol,” she says. “So no painkillers, but there was […]
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Theatre review: Little Thing, Big Thing
There’s a hell of a lot at work in Little Thing, Big Thing. Resurrected by director Jeremy Webb, the Merritt-winning Neptune take on Donal O’Kelly’s play is a venture jam-packed with hints of Hitchcock-esque suspense riddled with madcap antics and a million different feckin’ uses of the f-word. Between moments of beautiful poetic language and […]
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The Children’s cross-generational climates
The Children May 9-19 The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $5-$50, tickethalifax.com Martha Irving first laid eyes on Laura Vingoe-Cram when she was just a baby in a bassinet. Fast-forward some three decades: The two women are in conversation, listening carefully to each other, sitting in a top-floor rehearsal studio at Neptune Theatre. Vingoe-Cram […]
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Hello City’s powerful play
Hello City presents: The Hello Baby Show Tuesday, April 23, 7:30pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $5/$10/$20 The improvisational troupe Hello City is named after a song about how Halifax sucks. “The same people, the same drinks and the same music, the same quicksand / I think this harbour town is waist-deep and […]
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The blazing Color Purple
The Color Purple: The Musical To June 2 Neptune Theatre, 1593 Argyle Street $30-$86 neptunetheatre.com On a sharp and sunny Tuesday morning, the lobby of Neptune Theatre is quiet. Behind the doors of Fountain Hall, backed by a six-piece band, a choir swells. After three weeks of rehearsal, it’s the first day in the theatre […]
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Here are your 2019 Merritt Award winners
The Merritt Awards, Theatre Nova Scotia‘s annual celebration of the year in local theatre, were handed out last night at the McInnes Room in a ceremony hosted by Kim Parkhill and Ian Sherwood. The queer Holocaust musical Kamp was a big winner, picking up five awards including Outstanding Production and Outstanding Original Score for Garry […]
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Theatre review: Noises Off at Neptune
A mix of Inception meets Fawlty Towers, the farcical play within a play within a play Noises Off is a layered hybrid of classic slapstick and dry British comedy. Directed by Jeremy Webb, Neptune Theatre brings Michael Frayn’s work—a comical marathon nearly three hours long—to life thanks to a busload of manic energy provided by its […]
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Considering a Halifax without The Bus Stop Theatre
The Bus Stop Theatre opened in 2003 at 2203 Gottingen Street (there actually is a bus stop out front, 6779). “Howard Beye bought an old shut-down drugstore and had what everybody thought was this crazy dream to turn it into a theatre,” says Sébastien Labelle, the executive director of The Bus Stop Theatre Co-op, sitting […]
