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With their upcoming January production, Queen’s Musical Theatre has chosen to delve into that mystical world of fairy tales with Into the Woods. Featuring characters such as Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and Cinderella, it’s as if the musical just walked out of your childhood nostalgia—while doing some growing up along the way.Continue...

After a smashing noise followed by a spray of bullets, flashing lights and a woman mowing down innocents while screaming “I love you so much,” it seemed reasonable to expect the walls to melt. Surreal and hilarious, the Plastic People Theatre Company’s Domestic is a cogent, utterly unique piece of dark comedy.Continue...

B.A. Johnston musters about unexpected transmission repairs, blood-encrusted Greyhound riding criminals and infuriating chirping squirrels.Continue...

New CBC series, Triple Sensation, gives young and talented performers the chance to win a $150,000 scholarship to a performing arts school of their choice.Continue...

What happens when you celebrate the centenary of playwright Henrik Ibsen’s death? Scholars publish
commemorative volumes, a few Norwegians get drunk and Theatre Kingston puts on Ibsen’s The
Master Builder.Continue...

The folk songstress and Queen’s graduate is in downtown Halifax, picking up a friend from the airport. If she sounds distracted, she warns, it’s because she is.Continue...

The Queen’s drama department has produced an uncommon success. With their latest fall major, the drama department has chosen to delve into the extensive text of Brecht’s The Good Woman of Setzuan . Brecht began writing the play in the 1920s, but didn’t complete the final script until 1941. Loaded with premonition, philosophical inquiry, and occasional verbosity, Brecht’s script demands an epic setting— a requirement that is blatantly ignored in this production.Continue...

In the performances of Barbara Adler and Brendan McLeod, poetry meets music in a dark alley and laughs. The poets and performers brought their comic, yet moving styles to the dimly lit Sleepless Goat
on Monday night as part of their tour through Canada, the U.S. and the UK.

It’s a route they’ve followed many times before as poets and members of their folk-rock spoken word band, The Fugitives. Balancing compelling performance with crafted content, Adler and McLeod have each made their mark in the Canadian and international spoken word scenes one gig, one poetry slam and one festival at a time.Continue...

Once upon a time, films made by music video directors were easily dismissed. Emerging from a world of glorified commercials, these self-styled filmmakers’ technically ambitious work often lacked any resonance beyond pure spectacle.Continue...