The Chester Playhouse is a warm intimate 176 soft seat theatre in the lovely south shore village of Chester. Our motto is “world class entertainment with home-made cookies”. Our summer festival includes four professional theatre productions, a youth theatre show, musical artists from across Canada, as well as films and special events.

Highland Arts Theatre, or “The HAT” as it’s affectionately called, is the name of a performance venue in downtown Sydney, Nova Scotia, formerly the home of St. Andrew’s Church. When the church was decommissioned in 2013, a team stepped up to transform the beloved historical building into a state-of-the-art centre for arts and culture. While the venue is available for rent and has hosted many of Cape Breton’s finest in the fields of music and dance, it is our mandate to create a year-round, professional theatrical presence in downtown Sydney, producing and presenting quality productions with a special emphasis on Cape Breton artists, songs, and stories.

After five years of development, Light House Arts Centre is getting ready to open its doors in early 2022. LHAC is a multi-space, multi-disciplinary Arts Centre, located in the old World Trade & Convention Centre on Argyle St in downtown Halifax. Our Mission Statement is to “embrace culture and community to amplify opportunity, inspiration and connection.” Our goal at this moment is to learn as much as we can from the Presenting community so that one day soon we are developing and launching an annual Presentation Series.

The Creamery Square Arts Society is a nonprofit organization that manages The Grace Arts Centre in Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia. The Grace is a multi genre performance space housing the 170-seat Betty Murray Theatre and the Ice House Gallery.

Eastern Front Theatre dedicates itself to theatre artists who call Atlantic Canada home. Committed to telling our stories, we develop, produce, and promote the work and talents of our community, ranging from established artists to emerging voices. Eastern Front Theatre is a catalyst for Atlantic Canadian theatre projects. We aim to work as advocates for theatre makers in our community. By supporting artists at the stage they are in, with the assistance they need, we deepen artistic impact. We grow and adapt with our community as it changes and progresses. We measure our success with the relationships we foster. With new leadership, we are looking toward expanding our Stages Festival, where we present both Atlantic Canadian, Canadian, and International works of theatre.

The Osprey Arts Centre is a full service theatre with moveable seating. It presents music (classical and popular), dance and theatre, regional, national and international. The Coastline Gallery in its lobby features curated shows by visual artists from the area. Series include the Nautilus Music and Dance Series, Bringin’ It Home sponsored by Music Nova Scotia, a Theatre series, a Youth theatre series and the annual Shelburne Writers Festival the second weekend of August. The Osprey is the performance home of local musicians and theatre groups.

The Osprey may be rented for performances as well as private rentals for conferences, weddings and banquets.

The Osprey has youth outreach programs with the high schools and the community at large, as well as offering arts day camps for youth in the summer.

For more than thirty years Cecilia Concerts has been presenting diverse world-class chamber music experiences in welcoming, bilingual, and intimate settings that connect our community, educate and inspire audiences and artists, and enhance the rich heritage and culture of K’jipuktuk / Halifax.