An action-packed summer theatre season: Two Planks, FAST and a sked
Read about The Wind in the Willows at Ross Creek and The New Canadian Curling Club at Antigonish and get a summer theatre schedule
Rain On The Parade: A Theatrical Satire Like No Other
Rain on the Parade is a theatre nerd’s delight. To call this play self-referential is an understatement. Think The Producers, 17th century drama and theatre of the absurd. This new musical, whose Villains’ Theatre workshop production wraps up its short run today, 2 p.m., at Neptune’s studio theatre, is about a troupe of actors devastated by the death of their audience in a fire the previous season. Do they attempt […]
Voyages into Indigenous Cultures and Fairytale Worlds in Halifax Exhibits
Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia On the third floor of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, at opposite ends, two films blast out in sound and movement. At one end a Yanomami shaman dances in a storm of orange feathers observed by fellow tribesmen in a Brazilian village; at the other, two Finnish Sámi sisters perform an elegant, contemporary dance that devolves from soprano voices […]
Wildlife Recovery Concert this Friday at Scotiabank Centre: tickets $20 to $200
The Nova Scotia music industry is coming together to present the Wildlife Recovery Concert at the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax this Friday, June 9, at 7pm. All proceeds will be donated to the United Way. Performing artists are: Adam Baldwin & The Jenny Wren, Classified, Dave Sampson, Deedee Austin, Jah’Mila,Jenn Grant, Joe H. Henry, Joel Plaskett Emergency, Kim Harris, Matt Mays, Neon Dreams and Rankin MacInnis. Tickets go on sale […]
Pottery and Portraits on the South Shore
Before the tragic fires of this past week, I got a chance to go down to the South Shore twice to see two art shows by highly talented, Nova Scotian women and, coincidentally, have two different servings of fish cakes. CHESTER: Marla Benton, whose exhibit From Table to Wall is at the Chester Arts Centre just through today, let her imagination loose on her functional pottery for a large and […]
Billy Elliot More Than Worth The Wait; tickets still available
Delayed by the pandemic for three years, Billy Elliot storms onto the Neptune Theatre stage in an exciting whirlwind of steeped emotion, powerful dance and heart-throbbing music. This excellent, high-octane production of the Tony Award-winning musical has an unusually high number of actors for Neptune – 32 – and is helmed by the same team behind Neptune’s 2018 hit Mamma Mia! – director Jeremy Webb, choreographer and co-director Ray Hogg […]
Revel in landscape, see art in Point Pleasant Park, go to Thursday’s Starry Night Gallery Hop
Halifax artist Hallie Watson immerses you like a bee in a giant, dazzling, flower garden in her solo exhibit Northerly, at the Chase Gallery, Nova Scotia Archives, to April 28. This uplifting show of stunning, large-scale paintings and oil pastels bursts with colour, energy and beauty as one feels the artist herself reveling in the landscape of her family farm called Northerly in Mono, Ontario, near Orangeville. It’s a landscape […]
Ballad of the Motherland powerful, insightful, chilling
Writer-director Annie Valentina’s 70-minute drama, Ballad of the Motherland, is a chilling, darkly funny and very powerful play about a Canadian blogger kidnapped by a Russian separatist in the Ukraine in 2014. Based on a true story, Valentina, who is Bulgarian/Canadian, explores little-known international politics, what it takes to survive under extreme circumstances and the pursuit of identity for Canadians whose parents are from different cultures but have told their […]
Falling Head Over Heels for Fall On Your Knees
Fall on Your Knees is gripping, haunting, dazzling theatre. Sixteen actors, seated at the back of the stage with four musicians, step out of the murk of the past to blaze as the tormented Piper family – a family of music, madness and malignance – in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s bestseller set in 1890s Cape Breton and jazz-age New York. Beautifully and clearly adapted by award-winning, Halifax-based playwright Hannah Moscovitch and directed […]
Mark Delaney makes Every Brilliant Thing “somethin’ else eh?”
Mark Delaney has nerves of steel. The Sydney actor, all alone, surrounded by strangers in a brightly lit church basement with tape on the carpet and salt stains on the floor, conjures up a story of sadness and survival and it’s hilariously funny. “Something else eh?” a woman says to me, a complete stranger, at show’s end. The magic trick in British playwright Duncan Macmillan’s much-produced, 75-minute Every Brilliant Thing, […]
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