Alan Bateman, North of Woodside, acrylic on canvas, 24” x 36.” It’s a great time to see high-quality realist art in Halifax right now, all by first-rate, highly experienced Nova Scotia artists. Alan Bateman and Holly Carr are a dynamic art couple exhibiting together in Light in the Forest at Secord Gallery, 6301 Quinpool Rd. Their works are on view until the gallery’s Christmas show opens Nov. 29. The two […]
Ursula Calder and Stewart Legere in a scene from Tiny, by Bruce Barton, on view to Nov. 17. (Mel Hattie) Tiny is a mesmerizing, multimedia experience of an historical, sci fi world within the old NSLC store at Scotia Square. A co-production between Eastern Front Theatre and Zuppa Theatre, in association with Vertical City Performance and the Glenbow Museum, it was created by Calgary playwright Bruce Barton and Halifax’s Zuppa […]
Andrew Chandler in Every Brilliant Thing, at the Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen St., through Sunday, 8 p.m., and 2 p.m. Sunday. (Stoo Metz) Every Brilliant Thing is a tender, extremely funny play about depression and suicide with a wonderful, participatory approach to storytelling. Created by British author Duncan Macmillan with stand-up comic Jonny Donahoe, the 75-minute play is told in the round at the Bus Stop Theatre with Andrew […]
Darryl Hopkins and Steve O’Connell in Neptune Theatre’s presentation of Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland’s Between Breaths, on the mainstage to Nov. 10. (Stoo Metz) Between Breaths is a powerful, poignant, spiritually uplifting story about Newfoundland’s “whale man” that will bring you to tears and leave you in awe. Within just 75 minutes Newfoundland playwright Robert Chafe tunnels inside a marriage, a work relationship, a devastating illness and a passion to […]
Julia Topple and Sherry Smith star in Ellen Denny’s Pleasureville at Neptune’s studio theatre to Oct. 20. (Stoo Metz) Ellen Denny’s Pleasureville, in its world premiere at Neptune Theatre, is a charming, intimate comedy about big issues. The Canadian playwright tackles feminism, gender, identity, politics and friendship in a two-hour drama that celebrates empowerment and the bridging of differences. When Leah decides to move into her late aunt’s country home […]
Two Planks and a Passion Theatre Company opens its tour of Elapultiek by shalan joudry with two performance by fire today and Sunday at Ross Creek at 7:30 p.m. Read last year’s review at https://nsreviews.blog/2018/09/06/elapultiek-lovely-fireside-journey-into-a-mikmaw-perspective-on-the-world. Two Planks and a Passion Theatre brings back shalan joudry’s popular 2018 play Elapultiek, a 75-minute tale of healing between cultures and on the land. Tonight and Sunday the play is performed around a blazing […]
Stephanie MacDonald stars at Kate, wife to Jodee Richardson’s King Henry VIII, in Neptune Theatre’s season-opening, mainstage production of The Last Wife, to Oct. 6. (Stoo Metz) The Last Wife, starring Stephanie MacDonald as the indomitable, passionate and intelligent Catherine Parr, is a deliciously-dramatic, fast-paced story about women, power and survival. Neptune’s production of Ontario playwright Kate Hennig’s 2015 drama, which sold out in its Stratford Festival debut, is expertly […]
Garry Williams, Patrick Maubert and Forbes MacQuarrie in DaPoPo Theatre’s Broadway Boyz at the Halifax Fringe. While not exactly as advertised, Broadway Boyz is an endearing, honest show about three queer men exploring their dreams of Broadway and what happened in reality. The buzz around this show is due to its musically brilliant co-creator Garry Williams, who won the 2019 Merritt Award for original score for Kamp, and who wrote […]
Gillian English takes on the bard and the patriarchy in 10 Things I Hate About Taming of the Shrew at the Halifax Fringe Festival. Gillian English’s 10 Things I Hate About Taming of the Shrew is a funny, angry, feminist rant against one of Shakespeare’s most problematic plays. English is an award-winning Australian powerhouse by way of Pictou County and a Halifax Fringe favourite. She is amazing in her […]
My kid just went through high school and experienced the death of a teen friend by suicide, which is sadly not uncommon. So I was keen to see actor Beth Lachance’s production of the Ottawa hit, Late Company, by Jordan Tannahill. In this hour-long drama well-to-do parents, artist Deborah and MP Michael invite the teen who bullied their son and his less-affluent, unsophisticated parents Tamara and Bill to dinner a […]
