Theatre Nova Scotia

Theatre Nova Scotia is a registered charity dedicated to celebrating and uplifting live theatre in Nova Scotia. We serve all areas of theatre arts across the province including: professional theatre companies, community theatre companies, individual theatre artists, and educators from all levels of schools and universities.

Formed by a merging of the Nova Scotia Drama League (1951) representing Community Theatre, and the Nova Scotia Professional Theatre Alliance (1991), Theatre Nova Scotia was officially created in 2001.

Our mission is to respond to the needs of the professional and community theatre sectors in Nova Scotia by encouraging and supporting all aspects of live theatre through our programs and services.

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This Land

Theatre Nova Scotia acknowledges that its work and its membership stretch all across Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq people.

We are incredibly fortunate to make our work and share our art with each other in this place, and we encourage our members and audiences to get acquainted with this land.
Search the Ta’n Weji-sqalia’tiek Mi’kmaw Place Names Digital Atlas

We also honor the over 400-year history of African Nova Scotians in Mi’kma’ki. Recognizing African Nova Scotians as a founding culture of our nation, whose histories, legacies, and contributions have enriched this territory, and who continue to experience displacement, and all manner of structural, systemic, and individual discrimination today.
Learn more about this history with the Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia