The boundaries of time and space are suspended in this intriguing production. Cocaine Plane!, written by local first time playwright Emily Bossé and directed by Jake Martin, tells the stories of eight people—two teenage girls, two struggling lovers, two stoners, and two Columbian drug lords—and their varied and oddly connected reactions to an event that put Fredericton on the map, or at least in the New York Times. Continue reading In Review: NFTC’s ‘Cocaine Plane!’
Grand Theft Bus Embraces Streaming Media
Last night jam band extraordinaire, Grand Theft Bus, announced that they have embraced the future: that golden path where streaming media flows like so much spice. Continue reading Grand Theft Bus Embraces Streaming Media
New Music: The Burning Hell’s ‘Public Library’
Matthias Kom has written a novel, a real bastard of a piece that has clawed fragments of his universe together and horse stitched them into a monster of imagination and pop culture. Then he goes and sings the whole thing, like Finnegan’s Wake set to music, except more enjoyable. Continue reading New Music: The Burning Hell’s ‘Public Library’
Lauryn Hill to Headline Halifax Jazz Festival
What are Whoopi Goldberg, The Fugees, and the city of Halifax all about to have in common? The Great Atlantic Twittersphere lit up across the East Coast as news was leaked on Saturday that the illustrious songstress, Ms. Lauryn Hill, will be gracing our shores during the 30th TD Halifax Jazz Festival this summer. Continue reading Lauryn Hill to Headline Halifax Jazz Festival
In Review: Theatre New Brunswick’s ‘Marion Bridge’
Theatre New Brunswick‘s production of Daniel MacIvor’s Marion Bridge tells the story of three estranged sisters, Agnes (Kim Parkhill), Theresa (Michelle Polak), and Louise (Jackie Torrens), who are reunited when they return to Cape Breton to care for their mother on her deathbed. Continue reading In Review: Theatre New Brunswick’s ‘Marion Bridge’