Powerful, deeply moving and fast-paced, Casey & Diana is a beautiful piece of theatre that shouldn’t be missed. Halifax actor/singer/composer Garry Williams, as AIDS patient Thomas, gives the kind of performance that would make even the shyest person jump up and yell, “Bravo!” Casey & Diana, by Nick Green and at Neptune’s studio stage to May 18, is on its surface about Princess Diana’s historic visit in 1991 to patients […]
Controlled Damage is excellent, complex, passionate theatre about Halifax civil rights activist Viola Desmond. First staged just before the pandemic, the two-hour play by Toronto writer Andrea Scott, returns in a new co-production by Neptune Theatre and the National Arts Centre (NAC), running just to Feb. 2 in Neptune’s intimate studio theatre. While this story is sheathed in a glorious cloak of visual design and music, its power lies in […]
Fish and Dicks: Case Files from the Digby Neck & Islands Fish-Gutting Service & Detective Agency, by Kathy France, is a wonderful new addition to the canon of Nova Scotia plays celebrating place and people with humour, heart and song. In this case it’s Brier Island at the end of Digby Neck in a brilliantly-twinned tale of a woman’s struggle with loss and the comic capers of two island salts […]
Two Planks and a Passion Theatre creates a magical, unforgettable experience with its fireside shows as people sit encircling actors who themselves encircle a roaring fire. The flames are the only source of light and as you look into the orange flickering shadows your imagination is lit by a timeless story. The occasional flitting bat adds to the magic. Chased by The Bear, a spellbinding musical re-telling of Shakespeare’s The […]
Shakespeare by the Sea’s vaudeville twist on Twelfth Night is a fun and funny, passionate production steeped in Nova Scotia singer-songwriter Eliza Rhinelander’s original tunes as atmospheric as foggy coasts or smoke-filled, 1920s Paris bars. Director Drew Douris-O’Hara’s remarkably clear and tight-knit adaptation of Shakespeare’s play about love and tomfoolery was inspired by his visit to the Moulin Rouge in Paris during his honeymoon. (His wife Jade Douris-O’Hara plays Olivia, […]
Take a walk (or dance) on the wild side with Dance Nation, a fierce and funny, loud and large play about 13-year-old dancers fighting, laughing and crying on the road to a national dance competition Clare Barron’s Pulitzer-Prize nominated play, first produced in England in 2018 and inspired by the TV reality show Dance Moms, has a limited run through Sunday at Alderney Landing, Dartmouth, by Keep Good (Theatre) Company […]
Deepwater is a gripping, powerful mystery about a female detective trying to unravel the disappearance of a child over four years ago. Psychological, philosophical and poetic, this new play by The Villains Theatre’s Dan Bray is a departure for the author of often comic, classically-derived plays like the popular super-hero Knight of the Bat series. Set in Kempt Shore, N.S., the play opens with an experienced investigator, Questa (Liliona Quarmyne), […]
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