It’s really hard to think about how to review a show that is one person's intimate personal account and also when that one person is your buddy! What is the “point” of a review, really?  To dissect story-lines, to comment on acting ability, to hypothesize on direction choices?  To muse on taste, on expectations, on exactly… Read More

Leaving Wonderland, a new play by Shelley Thompson produced by LunaSea Theatre, was just one of those plays I went to with vivid expectations and left feeling slightly let-down.   I went in to the show knowing that Thompson plans on adapting it into a screenplay, and was already feeling a bit uneasy about that.… Read More

I was feeling conflicted about Angels & Heroes production of  girls! girls! girls!  before seeing it -- mega-intrigued by both script and set (back lot of the Bus Stop Theatre),  excited to see this constellation of actors working with director Richie Wilcox,  but I was also harboring a strange swirl of resistance and envy upon… Read More

Are you eager to hear from another Solo-Icious artist? You're in luck; this is the second instalment of the Solo-Icious Poste-Haste Presence!  Following my (e-mail) chat with Andrew Jackson, is a quick q&a with bar-tending and cocktail expert Shane Beehan, head bartender at the soon to open Lot Six Bar (aka #shanethebartender of Field Guide fame).  Beehan will… Read More

Hello theatre -- music -- sex-ed -- art fans! Welcome to another round of Post-Haste Presence!  That’s post-haste – with all possible speed. These are short q&a’s with artists to promote their fast-approaching  projects.  With the third incarnation of Solo-icious opening FRIDAY NIGHT, (which you can read more about here) I'm hoping to share with… Read More

Great news, excellent artists of Halifax! The “festival of phenomenal solo performances” is back -- yes Solo-icious will be revived next month! From their press release: “July 3rd and 4th, SOLO-ICIOUS...will present Halifax audiences with artists from across conventional performance disciplines (dance, theatre, music) and from not-so-conventional ones (spoken word, photography, culinary arts). Solo-icious celebrates the… Read More

Mulgrave Road Theatre’s production of Watching Glory Die, by esteemed playwright Judith Thompson, is a heart-wrenching story and a sleek, well-crafted production. Directed by Emmy Alcorn, Glory is inspired by the true story of Moncton’s Ashley Smith. Since the age of fifteen, she was shuffled between numerous detention centres and prison facilities across Canada.  At 18… Read More

Nova Scotians, political leaders are deceiving you. Anyone who rolls their eyes and thinks that's what politicians do...maybe take a second to think about how helpful that complacency is. Excusing politicians ISN'T helpful.  We live in Canada where we have the right to have our political voices heard. To change our minds if our leaders fail us, and… Read More

I was very anxious heading to see the Fuller Terrace Five production of The Pillowman last night.  A new mom, off to a three-act Martin McDonagh psychodrama about children being gruesomely murdered -- I mean I’ve been crying at episodes of The West Wing for heaven’s sake. But I was very brave and ventured to… Read More

Snowdays are the perfect day to hide in your room and ignore the world.  Unless there’s a fresh, exciting theatre festival coming up this weekend -- then you hide in your room and conduct a business-Skype with rising festival founder Karen Gross. The StART Festival, ‘a celebration of diverse art forms by emerging artists’ kicks… Read More