The Cirque du Soleil is in Halifax this weekend with Corteo, a show of breathtaking physicality and passionate beauty with intense theatricality in music and design. If you loved Baz Luhrmann’s movie Moulin Rouge you’ll love this show; the time period is the same – around 1900. The mood is an historic European one charged with emotion and familiar design elements – baroque, Art Nouveau, Victorian costume, a nod to […]
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), […]
Fall on Your Knees, the epic six-hour co-production by Neptune Theatre and the National Arts Centre, among others, of Ann-Marie MacDonald’s novel by Hannah Moscovitch, and Downed Hearts, a new play staged at Ship’s Company Theatre, Parrsboro, by N.S. Governor General’s award-winner Catherine Banks, dominate this year’s list of Merritt theatre award nominees. However, most of the province’s major players including Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre, The Villains Theatre, Shakespeare by […]
I didn’t see the Lord of the Rings movies so I didn’t know who Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd were apart from the stars in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, now enjoying a soldout run at Neptune Theatre. But now, having seen this epic, existential play, I know what they are: fantastic British stage and film actors, as well as longtime friends, who bring an absurdist duo that would make […]
Disney’s Frozen will be Neptune Theatre’s holiday musical from Nov. 7 to Jan. 5, 2025, while the season-closing musical is the sci-fi, musical hit Little Shop of Horrors. Neptune’s artistic director Jeremy Webb announced the theatre’s 62nd season today. Its 330 performances include 11 productions, four musicals/musical events, four comedies, four dramas, six Canadian plays and one world premiere. “The season delivers everything that we seek from live theatre – […]
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