Live Comedy Album Recording Sat Sep 8, 9:30pm; Sun Sep 9, 1pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street, $10/$7 She Wolf Thu Sep 6, 5:30pm; Fri Sep 7, 10:30pm; Sat Sep 8, 2:30pm; Sun Sep 9, 11:30am The Bus Stop Theatre, $15/$12 Gillian English has a lot to say and she talks fast. Having […]
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Fringe 2018: The Negroes Are Congregating
Fri Sep 7, 9pm; Sat Sep 8, 4pm; Sun Sep 9, 2:30pm The Bus Stop Theatre 2203 Gottingen Street, $10/$7 “This show talks about things you don’t talk about in public,” says Natasha Adiyana Morris. In addition to writing and directing The Negroes Are Congregating, she is the founder and director of Piece of Mine Arts, […]
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Fringe 2018: Bubble Trans Pride
[IMAGE-1] Thu Sep 6, 9:10pm; Sat Sep 8, 8pm The Old Company Theatre, 2202 Gottingen Street, $10/$7 When Tyler (Tsholo Khalema) meets Bob (Mihaly Szabados), the attraction is instant. Bob has lost someone and Tyler’s art speaks to the pain. Meanwhile Tyler’s friend Jill (Karla Rae James), who has transitioned quite late in life, is […]
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Fringe 2018: Wicked Fountain of Youth
Thu Sep 6, 7pm; Fri Sep 7, 6pm; Sat Sep 8, 11am & 10pm; Sun Sep 9, 12:30pm The Waiting Room, 6040 Almon Street $10/$7 Veronica Steele and Charlotte Weeks have spent the summer driving from London, Ontario with their show Wicked Fountain of Youth, a portrait of a teenager (Weeks) with fetal alcohol syndrome. […]
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Fringe 2018: Herbie Dragons and Oh Crap, My Scarf!
Oh Crap, My Scarf! Thu Sep 6, 7pm; Sun Sep 8, 5:30pm The Bus Stop Theatre 2203 Gottingen Street, $7 Herbie Dragons Thu Sep 6, 8pm; Fri Sep 7, 7:30pm; Sat Sep 8, 1 & 8pm; Sun Sep 9, 5:30 & 8:30pm The Bus Stop Theatre, $10 Kevin Hartford is having a busy Fringe: Oh Crap, […]
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Halifax Fringe – Day 5
The Negroes are Congregating By Natasha Adiyana It’s rare to be thoroughly captivated and entertained while also confronted with uncomfortable questions, but The Negroes are Congregating excels at the task. Three dexterous performers weave a series of spoken word pieces into an insightful look at contemporary anti-black racism in “the great white North.” The poems […]
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Halifax Fringe 2018 – Day 4
IN SPAAAAAACE By Nick Cox & Steve Heisler In case the name didn’t tip you off already, Terra Novella takes to the final frontier aboard its finest starcraft— the U.S.S. Budget. A parody (duh) of the Star Trek franchise, The Budget cruises through the galaxy’s peaceful sector under the steady leadership of its confident Captain […]
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Halifax Fringe 2018 – Day 3
Bubble Trans Pride & Holding Hands with the Awkward By Hanlon McGregor and Syrus Marcus Ware “We find out who our community is by going through the hardest times together.” Queer communities are struggling to address our racism and transphobia, and trans people of colour are affected twice over. At the centre of this story […]
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Halifax Fringe 2018 – Day 2
Something Wrong By Andrew Gaunce For writer/performer Andrew Gaunce, horror and the supernatural are embedded in his bones. His obsession was born in his youth and fanatically cultivated into the horror-movie fanboy we see today. For fans of any scary movie/novel/podcast, Gaunce has a show for you. Established on an extensive array of personal WTF […]
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Halifax Fringe 2018 – Day 1
Wicked Fountain of Youth By Veronica Steele Charlotte Weeks plays a raucous 17-year-old whose fetal alcohol syndrome means she struggles with basic math, gets angry and frustrated easily, and needs almost constant supervision: “it’s like feeling drunk all the time.” Weeks crashes around every inch of the Waiting Room’s stage, screaming, laughing and interrupting herself […]
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Fringe city
The 28th Halifax Fringe Festival is kicking off with over 50 shows across 11 days in venues across the city. Don’t wait for the buzz to build—trust us on these. Ah Hell!: The Words of Dorothy Parker Aug 30, Sep 1-2, Sep 4 & Sep 6 The Old Company Theatre, 2202 Gottingen St $5 ”Dorothy […]
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Twelfth Night moves
Twelfth Night To August 31 Cambridge Battery, Point Pleasant Park $20 suggested donation tickethalifax.com Twenty-five years ago, nearly on a whim, Shakespeare By The Sea put up Twelfth NIght for a week in Point Pleasant Park. Last weekend the company opened the production for its fourth time, in honour of that anniversary. But there are […]
