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

Onelight Theatre’s remounted Chess with the Doomsday Machine is a cleansing breath of fresh air. “Developed as an international co-production with artists in Iran and Canada... an original adaptation of Iranian author Habib Ahmadzadeh’s novel of the same name.” Designed, directed and adapted by artistic director Shahin Sayadi, Doomsday is highly theatrical, inventive, and demanding of its… Read More

I have been savoring American playwright Sarah Ruhl’s 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write this past month. Her quick, concise mini-essays have been helping me shape new ideas about theatre, and articulating some of my own beliefs in beautiful ways. Sometimes when I am engrossed in an author their cadence and language inhabit… Read More

A lot of wonderful theatre writers have been posting their top theatrical picks for 2014 in the past week or so. I saw a lot less theatre than I usually do this year, because I had the fancy/terrible version of morning sickness (hyperemesis gravidarum) and then I had a newborn. However I DID: fail a Shakespeare class… Read More

Last night I left my 6 week old son at home with his grandmother and went to the theatre all by myself like an adult. (It was scary. Also now you know why there hasn't been a post since October. Baby Bean born Nov. 3rd, 7lbs `8oz after 12 hours of me screaming like a… Read More

Halifax's DaPoPo Theatre is hosting its original fundraiser HALLOWORDS this Hallowe'en (Friday the 31st). And we need YOU to come share your words with us! HalloWords is where the hallowed and the harrowing convene in poetry, performance & song. We are looking for poets and performers to come with original writing and music to share,… Read More