With the east coast currently enduring the seventh year of Great Big Sea’s ongoing retirement, times are tough. There’s an increasing demand for someone to champion a way of life and to serenade us with the sounds of our homeland. But within the next few years, we can expect to see something that may bring us some comfort on that front. Alan Doyle is teaming up with Adam Brazier to create a new musical comedy: Tell Tale Harbour. Continue reading Tell Tale Harbour: Alan Doyle Recruited for New Theatre Production
Category Archives: Stage
In Review: Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story Leaves Us Laughing and Crying
Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch is known to to take a step back into history when it comes to her creations on stage, as seen in previous plays such as What a Young Wife Ought to Know which dated back to pre-birth control days. This time she decided to take a climb into her family tree to deliver us a story based around her own great-grandparents which started in 1908 on Halifax’s very own Pier 2 before we see them move to Montreal. Continue reading In Review: Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story Leaves Us Laughing and Crying
Cirque du Soleil Break the Ice With “Crystal” and a Whole New Style
Cirque du Soleil certainly need no introduction, but their new show “Crystal” is breaking new ground and offering audiences an all new type of circus experience by introducing the element of ice. Tackling the fusion of aerial acrobatics and ice skating for the first time, the performance promises to stun with, dare we say it, death-defying feats. Continue reading Cirque du Soleil Break the Ice With “Crystal” and a Whole New Style
Five Can’t Miss Shows We’re Looking Forward To At Fundy Fringe Festival 2019
Seven years, seven unapologetic theatre festivals. Fundy Fringe Fest has returned to Saint John for its 7th year in a row, with a lineup of seventeen outrageous, uncensored theatre shows. Theatre veterans and virgins alike are sure to be hitting Saint John in waves when the festival begins, so be sure to get in on all the best shows before the seating is all snatched up!
Here are five shows that we’re excited to see at the 2019 Fundy Fringe Festival. Continue reading Five Can’t Miss Shows We’re Looking Forward To At Fundy Fringe Festival 2019
In Review: Flashy, Interactive Extravagance from HEIST’s Production of The Princess Show
Let me tell you all about The Princess Show.
It was the evening of August 8th, 2019. I was trudging through the rain, notebook to my chest, as I approached the Charlotte Street Arts Centre in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Continue reading In Review: Flashy, Interactive Extravagance from HEIST’s Production of The Princess Show