Symphony Nova Scotia has appointed arts administrator Scott Tresham as its new chief executive officer.

Just announced: Halifax Jazz Festival presents Tales of a Charlie Brown Christmas (Nov 21).

Juno-nominated reggae artist Jah’Mila is set to reunite with Symphony Nova Scotia for the world premiere of Radiant Reggae Roots.

Just announced: Scotia Festival of Music presents guitarist Alexandra Whittingham (Sep 24), the opener to its 2025-2026 Chamber Players Series.

The Halifax Fringe Festival has announced a new leadership team to guide the city’s annual unjuried celebration of performing arts. Nova Scotia arts figures Jake Planinc and Blaze Fraser will take the helm as festival director and managing director, respectively.

Just announced: Neptune Theatre opens its 2025-2026 season with Lisa Nasson's Mischief (Sep 23-Oct 12).

Here are some of the shows we are excited about this week on Halifax stages (15-21 September).

Niagara’s Ivy Gardens are carving their own space in Canada’s heavy music scene, and are now bringing their sound to Halifax as part of their cross-Canada “Live or Die Tour,” in support of their latest album, Death of Don Valley.

Symphony Nova Scotia launches its 2025–2026 season with its 18th annual Symphony Week. The programme of free concerts and special events will bring the orchestra out of the concert hall and into libraries, shopping centres, and even a board game café from September 13-21.

Just announced: Toronto-based keytar shredding band Goodnight Sunrise comes to Halifax for a show at The Seahorse on September 11, 2025, plus Minus World and Salt Lamp.

The multidisciplinary arts festival celebrating the work of Indigenous artists and artists of colour from across the country returns to Kjipuktuk/Halifax from September 26 to October 5.

Hey Halifax Hello! Today! is a satirical take on the chaotic world of public-access television, featuring a cast and crew comprised entirely of local talent.

The Scotia Festival of Music launches its 2025–2026 Music Room Chamber Players Series, bringing international stars and Canadian favourites to the stage.

Receiving its premiere at this year's Atlantic International Film Festival, Sheila McCarthy and Mary Walsh star in Lisa Hagen’s bittersweet tale of friendship, dementia, and living boldly at any age.

Time machines, forbidden love, and the complexities of grief take center stage in Gabrielle Therrien's One Thousand Suns, a new play debuting at the Halifax Fringe Festival.

Just announced: Eastern Front Theatre presents Coal Bowl Queen (Sep 11-21), the story of Roz, who comes to small town New Waterford on a self-proclaimed pilgrimage looking for their birth mother.

Audiences are "flies-on-the-wall" in this Halifax Fringe Festival production from Matchstick Theatre.

"The Augur" is a fifteen-minute performance that blends puppetry, magic, and storytelling, in which participants will have their fortunes divined in a ritual rooted in the ancient practice of augury.

Bloom Theatre Co. makes its debut at the Halifax Fringe Festival with Kaitlyn Thompkins's What Will You Be?

A woman, a cactus, and a desperate search for love take centre stage as The Prick makes its Halifax Fringe Festival debut this month.

Beyond the Pages, at this year's Halifax Fringe Festival, combines puppetry, mask, and music to tell the story of two very different children and a sour librarian who discovers the joys of reading together.

What happens when you mix everything from the multiverse madness of "Everything Everywhere All At Once" to the relentless pace of doomscrolling with more than 37 blades, sticks, and fists?

What survives when the world collapses—and what doesn’t? That’s the question at the heart of "Eucharist," a new play by playwright-performer Sarah Tardif playing at this year's Halifax Fringe.

After more than two decades away, comedian Chris Gibbs is returning to the Halifax Fringe Festival with his solo show Not Quite Sherlock.

Halifax’s Matchstick Theatre presents Michael Ross Albert’s office comedy at the 2025 Halifax Fringe Festival in an actual boardroom, marking the company's foray into site-specific theatre.

Halifax Fringe Festival audiences will soon get a guided tour of New Zealand without ever leaving Argyle Street as award-winning comedian Sully O’Sullivan brings his show A Complete Idiot’s Guide to New Zealand to Neptune Theatre’s Imperial Studio.

The Villains Theatre is breaking new ground by presenting five plays at the 2025 Halifax Fringe Festival, which takes place at venues around the HRM from August 27 through September 7.

In this walk-about staging, audiences wander through Point Pleasant Park as actors bring the story to life — but it’s the music that truly draws you in.

Theatre review: Robin Hood: The Legendary Musical Comedy from @sbtshalifax.bsky.social may very well be the most fun you will have in the woods this summer.

Robin Hood from @sbtshalifax.bsky.social is the most fun you're going to have in the woods this summer. Watch for our review soon. In the meantime, you can find more info here: www.shakespearebythesea.ca/robinhood

Just announced: Gale Force Theatre presents Icarus, Falling of Birds (Aug 22 & 23), inspired by the book of poetry and photography by acclaimed Maritime artists, Harry Thurston and Thaddeus Holownia, at the York Redoubt National Historic Site.

Despite Nova Scotia's province-wide ban on activities in wooded areas due to heightened fire risk, Shakespeare by the Sea (@sbtshalifax.bsky.social) has been granted special permission to continue its summer season in Point Pleasant Park.

Along with 2024 People’s Choice winner, circus performer Pancho Libre, this year’s Halifax Buskers Festival (Jul 30-Aug 4) will feature 16 acts in over 200 shows from across Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea and Austria.

Here are some of the shows we are most excited about this week on Halifax stages.

"Maidie Music House exists because African Nova Scotian artists deserve legendary-caliber infrastructure that matches the legendary culture they come from." – Katrina Lopes.

Just announced: Cecilia Concerts presents the return of pianist Illia Ovcharenko (Nov 15), featuring five lyrical and rarely heard works by Sergei Bortkiewicz. www.halifaxpresents.com/events/piani...

Just announced: St. Matthew’s United Church presents the 2025 version of Summer Sounds @Barrington this August, with an eclectic line-up of local musicians. www.halifaxpresents.com/events/summe...

Halifax-produced Great White North Invasion explores the dramatic rise of great white sharks in the once calm waters of Canada’s East Coast. The documentary receives its world premiere on July 22 as part of Discovery's Shark Week.

Music Nova Scotia announces 2025 award nominees, with the winners to be announced on October 26 during Nova Scotia Music Week in Yarmouth/Kespukwitk.

Here are some of the shows we are most excited about this week on Halifax stages.

Eastern Front Theatre's summer theatre field trips are back with 3 day-long adventures.

A screening of Scala!!! sets the stage for a discussion on the importance — and future — of local independent movie houses as Carbon Arc Cinema celebrates 15 years.

Just announced: The Villains Theatre presents A Beginner’s Guide to the Night Sky (Jul 17), "an observational astronomy class that moves through music, memory, and magic to teach us about what we can see from our tiny place in the universe."

Here are some of the shows we are most excited about this week on Halifax stages.

One night only, on July 7, 2b theatre presents a work-in-progress showing of the new play Your Show Here by Rework Productions, supported by the Siminovitch Prize. "Anytime you have a chance to see [Daniel] MacIvor perform, take it." - 2b theatre artistic director, Christian Barry.

Here are some of the shows we're most excited about this week (June 30– July 6, 2025) on Halifax stages.

Local contemporary jazz company, Rooted Dance Projects, premieres Take 5 this week at the Alderney Landing Theatre in Dartmouth, a multigenerational dance performance spotlighting both established and emerging talent from across Nova Scotia and beyond.

Here are some of the shows we are most excited about this week on Halifax stages.

Halifax’s 2b theatre, the internationally acclaimed outfit known for its bold, original works, is celebrating 25 years of creation with a unique concert event, featuring a musical triple bill from past and present 2b collaborators. www.halifaxpresents.com/music/2b-the...

Just announced: @ceciliaconcerts.ca opens its 2025-2026 season with CelloFellos: Global Grooves (Sep 27), featuring Canadian cellist Bryan Cheng, Cecilia Concerts’ 2025/26 Musician-in-Residence, and German cellist Leonard Disselhorst. www.halifaxpresents.com/events/cello...