Saturday August 6th, O2K live at Bus Stop Theatre with supporting acts by Bethany Reid, Frantik, Savage Tha God, Grant Ball & Jaythekidd. Doors open at 6 and the music starts at 7. This is an all ages event. Tickets are available online in advance for $10, or at the door for $15.
The Skeleton Dance is a creative movement show for all ages about death. It is a highly physical, energetic, and light-hearted play with elements of clown and puppetry. It is created and performed by Emma James (they/she) and Ella MacDonald (she/her). It runs approximately 30 minutes, invites structured audience participation, and is always followed by […]
As you are, return to the forgotten land The spiritual dance-rock soul medicine experience Tangled up in our robes of limiting beliefs and ancestral trauma, saturated energetically with a collective anxiety and impending gloom, it is a challenge in 2022 to remember who we truly are: boundless beings within whom every conceivable miracle of the universe has […]
Come on back to the Bus Stop! We are SO excited to announce that our renovations are nearing completion and will be finished just in time for our annual fundraiser. Join us on Sunday, August 14th for a special 2 part event to show off our new and improved facilities! From 2-6pm, we’ll be hosting […]
A talented cast of Halifax Improvisors take to the stage to improvise scenes based on the strangest idioms you’ve ever heard. Along with your host, Erik Garf, watch as these comedians turn absurd phrases into hilarious bits of theatre. Cast Includes: Amy Mielke, Colin McGuire, Draven Hewitt, Jamie White, Sara Graham, Taylor McMillan. Hosted by […]
The boys are back!!! After a massively successful debut in May, Atlantic Boylesque is coming back to the Bus Stop Theatre on August 20th with a retrolesque event that won’t soon be forgotten! The Boys of Summer is a retro-themed two-show event with an early show at 5pm and a late show at 9pm. The show will feature […]
Share your works-in-progress, get feedback from fellow writers, create community and see what sparks your imagination at our monthly Writers’ Circle!! Led by Andre Fenton, the Circle is an inviting, inspiring way to maintain creative accountability and make connections with likeminded artists. Join us Sunday August 21st — 2203 Gottingen Street, our home sweet home at […]
Thank u,ex is a coming of age story about a young girls journey through her love life. Bringing you 90’s nostalgia forms of heartbreak, loss, love and of course the teenage mutant ninja turtles delicacy, pizza! Join Violet as she exams her past relationships, kicks her exes to the curb and finds her way to […]
Drama⎮ General/All Ages Ritual Music to Cure a Lover, is the story of forbidden love, a family divided by long-held secrets, and a community trying to find balance between traditional ways and the modern world. The play culminates in a Zaar/Exorcism ceremony, intended to rid a young man of the “sickness” of his love for an […]
Booger Red survives a rough childhood to become a renowned Hellfire and Brimstone Southern Baptist preacher. Can Preacher's Kid Jimmy find a way out from under Booger Red's larger-than-life shadow as he grows up and finds his own voice? If you've ever had a dream or a daddy, Loucks' gritty and passionate solo performance is […]
In this unusual magic show, actual wizard and Halifax magician Vincenzo Ravina (as seen on the CW’s hit show, Penn & Teller: Fool Us) will emerge from his mysterious smoke-filled cave to show you some strange stuff. There might be: Potions! Ghosts! Playing cards! Guests! Murder! Actual Wizard is funny, mystifying, absurd, and experimental. http://halifaxmagician.com […]
Mature language & playful violence "Holy Parody!" By night, Londontown's favourite playwright/playboy Will Shakespeare dons the mantle of the Cloaked Crusader: the fearsome Knight of the Bat. When faced with an apocalyptic ultimatum, Sir Bat and his squire Robin Goodfellow must square off against an entire gallery of rogues in a race against time. A […]
Queer Variety | PG13 Acts ranging from Drag, to dance, to music, to burlesque, to presentations, Digital works, talks, stories and more. What can’t we do? NonBinary or any gender diverse identity including, but not limited to Two-Spirit, Genderfluid, Agender, Intersex, Bigender, Demigender, Genderflux, Genderqueer, Neutrois, Polygender, Queer, Transfemme, Transmasc + @peri.winkle.drag for more details.
Comedy | Language; References to Sex "Hard Cheese" is British slang for bad luck—which is exactly how Carly feels about finding love. But in a swipe-and-ping world, can a 37-year-old writer meet her match at an in-person mixer? Featuring characters inspired by the playwright's real romantic history, HARD CHEESE proves that speed dating can be […]
Comedy | PG13 CW: puppet aggression/described violence (Re)Tired Magical Black Man will take you on a 60-minute magical caper. With help from their puppet friends, and maybe even you, dJerald the Djinn unretires to fulfill an impossible wish — Stealing World Peace from the oligarchs! Winner "Emerging Artist", 2022 Ottawa Fringe Festival. Past reviews: “Velvet […]
$15 Fancy Vampires, $10 Cool Ghouls, $5 Sneaky Lurkers Comedy ⎮ Strong language, mature themes, graphic discussions Welcome to "The Best Little Horror-House in Texas": the Maritimes' 14th Favourite Haunted House - now open all year round! When Lizzy Godiva gets hired at this bizarre tourist trap, she has no idea that she'll 1) become […]
Children's Theatre / Comedy / Family Friendly! Did you know that dinosaurs ate porridge? Or lived at the top of beanstalks?? Or liked wearing your granny’s pyjamas??? It’s all true! Join us for our "Super Special Theatrical & Musical Presentation For Tiny Geniuses And Their Families" and hear the most exciting stories of the […]
Science Fiction | Live Reading | Mature audiences only CW: Suicides, violence, loud noises, yelling, & occasional masks Live leaves falling down, tripping on a short branch. We'll say it was an accident, how easily their lives end. Fragility, sadly, depending on the weather. Three groups of survivors of an alien invasion struggle to […]
Comedy ⎮ Mature Audiences Marijuana-themed comedy hypnosis show. Audience volunteers are hypnotized on stage to experience a high better than any available bud. Comedy routines involving altered states of reality.
30 MIN ⎮ $10.00 Drama Language, Dark Themes, Descriptions of Crime Radio disk jockeys, phone calls, apples and a monkey feature heavily in this audio drama / movement piece hybrid from Lions Den Theatre (The Shadow, Ah Hell, Yellow Wallpaper.) Eddie (Colleen MacIsaac) wakes up to find a monkey in the house.... what to […]
Comedy | 19+ I LIVE… Laugh, Lipsynch is the show for basic b’s by basic b’s. So, join Brooke Rivers,Trinity Foxx & Hunni Kruller as the wheel of Destiny (‘s Child) decides whether they ‘LIVE’, ‘LAUGH’, or ‘LIPSNYCH’. At random and in a different order each night these queens will need to share real life […]
