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 Angela Butler, Vanessa Walton- Bone, Elaine Casey, Cheryl Theriault, and Alice Woodbury in a scene from Dancing at Lughnasa, written by Brian Friel, and directed by Louise Renault. The play was presented at the Pond Playhouse last year during the Theatre Arts Guild's 75th season.

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The Witch Of Edmonton: Astonishing theatre by any measure
Dal Theatre Productions has kicked off its new season with a startling staging of the rarely seen 1621 macabre drama The Witch Of Edmonton, by Dekker, Ford and Rowley. Director Roberta Barker’s remarkably restrained production sports two choral interludes o... Go to Ron's blog or

Shakespeare By the Sea's Othello: Tense and Strong
Seeing Shakespeare By the Sea deliver a compact, conventional staging of the Bard's challenging late tragedy Othello is like watching a lion slowly stalk its prey for 90 minutes before it finally strikes and devours it in the final half hour. Shorn of conte... Go to Ron's blog or

A Midsummer Night's Magic
There was a huge crowd at Shakespeare By the Sea’s latest production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Point Pleasant Park Sunday Night. And there should be. It’s a wonderful production, thoughtfully reconsidered by director Jesse MacLean. There’s a bit less ... Go to Ron's blog or

Shakespeare By the Sea's Cinderelly is Wild West wonderful
Shakespeare By the Sea has kicked off its 15th season with revamped staging of its ensemble-written family show, Cinderelly. A Wild West musical retelling of the classic fairy tale Cinderella, it’s ideal entertainment for kids and adults alike. Jammed ... Go to Ron's blog or

Fewer Emergencies: Opaque & Fascinating
The Halifax-based theatre company Angels And Heroes has delivered the work of yet another playwright previously unknown in Nova Scotia to the live stage. This time out it is the ferocious British absurdist writer Martin Crimp, whose three-part play Fewer Emerg... Go to Ron's blog or

Toronto Adventures: A Trip to Theatrical Purgatory
Lindsay Kyte’s Toronto Adventures is typical Fringe fare. A charming but slight series of autobiographical sketches bloated up into an endless 80-minute theatrical marathon, it’s the kind of work that plays best to local and family sensibilities. Kyte wrote... Go to Ron's Blog or

6 In Under Sixty rates a 6 out of 10
6 In Under 60 could be considered the ideal Fringe offering at this year’s Festival. It’s six short plays by different contemporary playwrights put on by an energetic young cast of four veteran Halifax thespians under the banner of Left Foot First Productio... Go to Ron's blog or

All's Well Indeed At Point Pleasant
Shakespeare by the Sea’s third and last production for the season, All’s Well That Ends Well, sees the 14-year-old company firing on all cylinders. A rarely-performed late comedy by the Bard that points towards his final period of romances (The Tempest, A W... Go to Ron's blog or

Theatre Arts Guild Tackles Two Pinters
The Theatre Arts Guild (TAG) has tackled two Harold Pinter one-act plays for its latest offering, on stage until July 7th. One, Night School, is an abject lesson in how not to stage Pinter; the second, The Lover, is a superb rendition of one of the British Nob... Go to Blog Gone RFM or

DaPoPo Does The Impossible With Sunday In the Park
Halifax’s scrappy downtown theatre company has achieved the impossible with its staging of the acclaimed Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine musical, Sunday In the Park With George, playing at the St. Mary’s University Art Gallery until next weekend. A large-cast... Go to Ron's blog or

Jasper Station: Norm Foster's Stellar Musical
Jasper Station, at the Dartmouth Players Playhouse for the next three weeks, is the third production of a Norm Foster play to be staged in Halifax so far this year. What makes it different is the fact that it is a musical. The show retains most of what mak... Go to Ron's blog or

Angels & Heroes' Daring 'Trestle' is Must-See Theatre
The flood of great June theatre continues in Halifax with a fascinating production of American playwright Naomi Wallace’s prize-winning play The Trestle At Pope Lick Creek. Staged by the maverick downtown company Angels and Heroes, it’s an uneven but essential... Read More.

Nuts & Gum Debut: Glib and Smug
The first production of yet another new Halifax-based theatre company is a bit of dud, I’m afraid. One Good Marriage, penned by Toronto television writer Sean Reycraft and directed by Exodus Theatre alumnus Darcy Lindzon for Nuts And Gum Theatre at the Bus Sto... Read More.

Foghorn Theatre's Precise 'Timing'
Halifax’s Foghorn Theatre has returned to form with a delightful staging of contemporary New York playwright David Ive’s short play symposium All In the Timing. The company has tackled Ives before. A few years back they delivered a sparkling version of the ... Read More.

Metamorphic Scores: Creatures Of the Moment
On Saturday I managed to catch Metamorphic Theatre’s 50-minute, original 5-person play Creatures Of the Moment at the Space on Agricola Street. I should declare my conflicts of interests up front. I know several of the people involved in the production; one... Read More.

Singalong Jubilee Still A Work In Progress
The Eastern Front’s artistic director Scott Burke’s attempt to shoe-horn the legacy of the Halifax-produced CBC TV series Singalong Jubilee into a single night of dramatic entertainment doesn’t quite work theatrically. Still, with so much wonderful music on... Read More.

A 21st Century Marat
Director/Adaptor Paul Kimball and Le Theatre de Boheme have drifted sufficiently far enough away from Peter Weiss’ famous play Marat/Sade for the production - at the Church this weekend and next - to distill the title down to ‘Marat’ and drop any pretences of ... Read More.

Sesame Street Strindberg
Dalhousie Theatre Productions is advertising a staging of Johan August Strindberg’s A Dream Play this week at its studio theatre this week. Audiences might have a hard time actually finding it, though. Sure, there’s some kind of play going on deep in the bo... Read More.

Page to Stage: Mourning Dove Plays at Neptune
Mourning Dove is a difficult play with roots in the story of Robert Latimer, the Saskatchewan farmer who killed his severely disabled daughter Tracy in 1993. It was originally written for broadcast on CBC radio’s Morningside, and will be playing at Neptune The... Read More.

The Year In Theatre
Nova Scotia’s theatre scene had an interesting, up-and-down year in 2006. There were some losses (actor David Renton, academic Patrick O’Neill) and some gains (actor/writer Daniel MacIvor, who moved back to the province this year). There was sub-standard wo... Read More.

Angels and Heroes' Take On The Maids Is Taut and Tight
The Halifax ultra-low budget Angels and Heroes theatre company’s latest offering is a taut, slightly overdone staging of French author Jean Genet’s difficult 1949 play The Maids. Put on within the overly bright confines of the top floor of the Khyber Club o... Read More.

Big Play Is A Big Drag
To say that Dalhousie Theatre Production’s staging of June Havoc’s 1963 play Marathon ‘33 - on at the Dunn Theatre until December 2nd - is a disappointment would be something of an understatement. The show is an unwatchable 3-hour borefest, a bloated blimp ... Read More.

Marathon 33 Has Plenty Of Merit
Never having seen any of the previous Dal Theatre Productions of the season, I wasn't sure what to expect from this student preview of Marathon 33. One thing I was aware of, was the renowned reputation of director Heinar Piller. Having directed a long list ... Read More.

Big Apple Troup Takes Ibsen Around the World
While it seems no-one in this province’s theatre community joined in on the world-wide celebration of the great realist playright Henrik Ibsen centenary, a Nova Scotian-named, New York-based experimental drama company took an acclaimed production of Ibsen’s A ... Read More.

"A convincing rendition of a difficult play"
Le Theatre de Boheme’s latest project is an intimate staging of Jean Genet’s 1955 play The Balcony in the low-ceiling confines of Hell in the basement of the Marquee Club on Gottingen Street. It’s an entirely apt location for a play set in a brothel in an-u... Read More.

Eastern Front's Play, Corvette Crossing, Misses Its Target
The Eastern Front Theatre’s season-opening, Remembrance Day referencing play Corvette Crossing is an exercise in theatrical frustration. Playing at the cavernous Alderney Gate Theatre until November 12, the play treats a worthy subject - The Battle of the A... Read More.

Dal Stages Successful 'American Film'
Dalhousie Theatre Department’s first production of their 2006-2007 season is a fascinating staging of American satirist Christopher Durang’s (The Actor’s Nightmare, Beyond Therapy) revue The History Of American Film. It’s a very funny, fast-paced show that ... Read More.

Sir David Hare Makes It Across the Pond
The venerable Theatre Arts Guild has kicked off its latest season with a brisk production of Sir David Hare’s challenging 1995 play Skylight. Hare - best known for plays of grand contemporary scale such as Pravda (about the British Newspaper Trade) and last... Read More.

Angels And Heroes Gnomic Three-Hander
Angels and Heroes’ production at this year’s Fringe is a gnomic three-hander entitled Caged which delves mostly into atmosphere and suggestion. The three scenes each seem to be about the struggle between the workaday world and the excesses of total freedom.... Read More.

One-Half of Friel's Lovers At The Fringe
Winners is a good example of what passes for standard Fringe Festival fare. It’s one-half of Irish Playwright Brian Friel’s 1967 play Lovers, with a reduced cast from four to two, no set to speak of, and little in the way of lighting or other theatrical effect... Read More.

Foghorn Theatre Does Mamet Proud
One theatrical jewel buried in the frenzy that is Halifax’s Fringe Festival is Foghorn Theatre’s staging of contemporary Chicago playwright David Mamet’s pungent one-act play The Shawl. A taut three-hander based around the manipulations of modern-day fortun... Read More.

Mary Pickford's Story Only Fitfully Successful
Once the most famous actress in the world, and the most powerful female producer in Hollywood in the 1920s and ‘30s, Toronto-born Mary Pickford’s story comes to the stage in a one-woman show at this year’s Fringe Festival. Alas, Living Shadows is only fitfu... Read More.

Antigonish is chock full of modern-day plays
Festival Antigonish’s 2006 schedule is in full flight, and it’s offering an astonishingly fresh blast of contemporary English-speaking theatre, whether the plays come from New York, London, England or Toronto. With the addition of its new second stage - a g... Read More.



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