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“One Woman Plus a Typewriter Equals a Movement:” Pauli Murray Still Inspires
Pauli Murray’s immortal spirit is reembodied in TO BUY THE SUN, a remarkably dramatic piece of documentary theatre that played in Chapel Hill and Durham in late 2016, in a new and improved version of...
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Get it While the Getting is Good
One of the shadow devices intricately carved from water buffalo leather by artist Eko Nugroho for his production “In the Name of Semelah” performed by Wayang Bocor theatre company, at Carolina...
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Truly Beautiful INTIMATE APPAREL
PlayMakers Repertory Company has opened a deeply satisfying production in the Paul Green Theater. Beautifully directed by Raelle Myrick-Hodges, Intimate Apparel offers the kind of intimate sharing of...
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Stars, Satellites and the Ferris Wheel of Love: BRIGHT HALF LIFE, at Manbites
Women in love: JoRose (Vicky) and Tamara Kissane (Erica), in Tanya Barfield’s BRIGHT HALF LIFE, as directed by Jules Odendahl-James. At Manbites Dog Theater through March 4, 2017. Photo: Alex Maness....
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Howard L. Craft’s New Play at Manbites: More Miraculous than Mundane
Durham playwright Howard L. Craft has leapt to a higher level of prowess with The Miraculous and the Mundane, his new two-act piece now in a workshop production at Durham’s Manbites Dog Theater, in...
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Loverly: MY FAIR LADY at PlayMakers
Rarely would a musical be my first choice of what to see at the theater, but there are exceptions, and My Fair Lady is first among them. PlayMakers Repertory Company has just opened its fresh version...
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Aides-mémoire: MARJORIE PRIME, at Manbites Dog Theater
Jon (Michael Brocki) with his mother-in-law Marjorie (Marcia Edmunson), who is losing her memory in Jordan Harrison’s MARJORIE PRIME, directed at Durham’s Manbites Dog Theater by Jeff Storer. Through...
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Summer Sisters return as BAD MOTHERS & NEGLECTFUL WIVES, at Manbites Dog
In Bad Mothers & Neglectful Wives, devised and presented by Summer Sisters, the struggle within the struggle: “Don’t dilute the message,” say the white women, pulling their black sister down. From...
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LIFE SUCKS. Aaron Posner’s touchingly revised Chekhov at Manbites Dog Theater
Thaddaeus Edwards as Uncle Vanya, Rhetta Greene as Babs, and Jock Brocki as Dr. Aster, with Faye Goodwin as Sonia and Lakeisha Coffey as Pickles, in Manbites Dog’s new production of Aaron Posner’s LIFE...
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I Say Goodbye, You Say Hello: The Last Stage Show at Manbites Dog Theater
Derrick Ivey as Guy, in Will Eno’s Wakey, Wakey, directed by Jeff Storer, in Manbites Dog Theater’s final production. Photo: Alan Dehmer. If you are looking for “balanced” criticism, look somewhere...
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