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VOICE CHOICE: Stratford’s return of ‘Something Rotten!’ arrives sharper, wittier and more confident. A joyous, silly and irreverent production that embraces its own absurdity.
The Festival’s return of Something Rotten! invites repeat viewing, not only for its energy but for its juicy wordplay and...
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Sara Farb’s Fanny Brice in Shaw’s ‘Funny Girl’ grabs the role with both fists and makes it her own. Babs who?
A striking production of ‘Funny Girl’ – loosely based on the story of Fanny Brice, a comedic star of the...
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Halifax Theatre Arts Guild’s ‘Mystic Pizza’ delivers a sense of stylization that leaves the film’s realism behind.
The beloved 1988 Cult Film about three working-class women in their 20s, directed by Donald Petrie, son of Glace Bay,...
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A visually arresting staging of Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ sends Stratford Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino out on a high note.
As he nears the end of his tenure as artistic director of the Stratford Festival, Antoni Cimolino leaves on a...
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VOICE CHOICE: Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of a Salesman’, at the Stratford Festival, receives a deeply felt and finely tuned production.
Still a fixture in many high school English classrooms, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman remains a searing examination of...
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Stratford’s ‘Waiting for Godot’ Turns Beckett’s Bleakness into Intriguing Theatre
In her programme note, director Molly Atkinson offers a succinct key to Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece: “There are two absolute certainties...
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A ‘Hobbit’ that dazzles the eye more readily than it stirs the heart
At its official Stratford Festival matinee opening, The Hobbit draws exactly the audience one might expect: families, children, and devoted...
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Crow’s and The Grand’s ‘Primary Trust’ gives a nimble production to a script that never tightens the screws
Mouldy walls, graffiti tags, and electrical wiring. Tufts of grass sprouting through cracks in the concrete. There is even a...
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VOICE CHOICE. Stratford’s ‘Guys and Dolls’ remains a must-see at the top of your theatre list this summer.
Does Guys and Dolls still work on a twenty-first-century stage, even if the title may strike some as slightly sexist?...
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Heartfelt and joyous, the Neptune’s ‘Come from Away’ shows no sign of weariness in a terrific Halifax home-spun production.
With the performance rights to Come from Away now available to numerous regional professional theatres across Canada, it is unlikely...
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