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ELSEWHERE: A CelloOpera Premieres at Carolina Performing Arts
A moment from the Carolina Performing Arts-commissioned ELSEWHERE, a total work of art by Maya Beiser, Robert Woodruff, and assorted other artists. Photo courtesy the artists/CPA. What did you do last...
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Gonzo Molière at PlayMakers Rep
L to R: NATHAN KEEPERS as Dr. St. Judas, STEVEN EPP as Argan and JEFFREY BLAIR CORNELL as Dr. Wachauvia in PlayMakers Repertory Company’s world premiere adaptation, by David Ball, of Molière’s...
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SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER, still funny after all these years, at Deep Dish
Brian Fisher and Amelia Sciandra in “She Stoops to Conquer.” Photo by Jonathan Young. This article first appeared in print in the Indy Week, 10/31/12, with the headline “Dirty old classics.” One of the...
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3 plays–from hell to angels–continuing this weekend
Dorothy Lyman as Violet on the set of August, Osage County. Photo: HSN | TR In Raleigh, an impressive production of August, Osage County by Hot Summer Nights | Theatre Raleigh. Under the intelligent,...
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Memory as Muse at PRC2: Rinde Eckert’s AND GOD CREATED GREAT WHALES
Rinde Eckert and Nora Cole in Eckert’s AND GOD CREATED GREAT WHALES. Photo courtesy PlayMakers Rep. “What if the mind is a kind of digital code that can be encrypted in music?” wonders Nathan, Rinde...
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Modern Romance at Common Ground Theatre in MY PRINCESS BRIDE
Joe Brack as the character Inigo Montoya in his production, MY PRINCESS BRIDE, now playing at Common Ground . Photo courtesy Rus Hames. According to the man on stage telling the story, he, Joe Brack,...
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Artists turn on the power at Manbites for THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM
It is always a special treat to see theater work made by talented, skilled artists who have generated their synergy not in just this production, but in many plays over years, even decades. In the...
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The Dark Music of NOCTURNE at Burning Coal Theatre thru 3/24
My review of this tough and tender play was published 3/15/13 on CVNC.org, with the title “Being and Not Being: Mortall Coile’s Graceful Nocturne at Burning Coal.” Jesse Gephart on the set of NOCTURNE....
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THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE, swashbuckling and singing once again as The Durham...
The lead characters in Durham Savoyards’ 50th anniversary production of THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE. Photo: Joe Cohn. In need of some unalloyed entertainment with singing, dancing, bold costumes, and a...
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Serious Klöwn
Playwright Slawomir Mrozek. Photo: Reporter Poland, on http://www.m.onet.pl, May 25, 2012. Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern surprises once again. After opening their season by standing...
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Life is a CABARET at PlayMakers
Taylor Mac as the Emcee (standing) with the Ensemble in PRC’s saucy production of CABARET. Photo:: Jon Gardiner/PRC. PlayMakers Repertory Company kicks out the stops to close it 2012-13 mainstage...
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Basil Twist’s Enchanted Air Ballet Premieres at CPA, program repeats 4/13
The end of Twist’s CPA-commissioned THE RITE OF SPRING, in development at the Basil Twist Residency, March 2013; Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill, NC. KPO Photo. “This is the program I’ve been most nervous...
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SPRING TRAINING through April 28, and no, it is not baseball
PlayMakers Repertory Company is wrapping up an intense year with a fascinating PRC2 presentation by the theatrical troupe Universes, in the Kenan Theatre. April 24 saw the world premiere of Spring...
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Marriott Directs McDonagh at Chapel Hill’s Deep Dish Theater
Samantha Rahn and Ishai Buchbinder in THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN. Photo: Jonathan Young. More theater than we can attend! It is what we’ve all wished for…and now we have it, so get out and see it. Here’s...
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Ivey on Ice Skates, and Other Pleasures in THE HOMOSEXUALS at Manbites
The play that’s running through May 18, closing out Manbites Dog Theater‘s jubilant 25th season, may be the very best I’ve seen in all their years. A script without a false note, The Homosexuals...
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Tearing it up in Raleigh with the GOD OF CARNAGE
Do not miss God of Carnage, continuing this week, June 26-30, at Theatre Raleigh|Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy. That is, unless you just cannot bear to watch civility unmasked and shredded by four...
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10 x 10, #12: The ArtsCenter’s Festive Annual Short Play Extravaganza
For the 12th year running, the Carrboro ArtsCenter has produced and is presenting the high-energy theatrical event, 10 x 10 in the Triangle. Once again, it offers fast-paced fun well laced with clever...
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A really late review and an almost-late preview of shows at Durham’s Common...
Two of the Triangle’s energetic theatre artists, Katja Hill and Lormarev Jones, outside of Common Ground Theatre, which hosted ROUGH DRAFT. Photo: Rachel Klem. ROUGH DRAFT: A Night of New Solos (Common...
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Surviving with Loudon and other news as PlayMakers Opens 13/14 Season
Loudon Wainwright III and image of Loudon Wainwright Jr., in PlayMakers Repertory Company’s world premiere production of SURVIVING TWIN, written & performed by Loudon Wainwright III, and directed...
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For a Hot Time, Come on over to OUR TOWN
The cast of The Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern’s new production of OUR TOWN, through September 21 at The Trotter Building. Photo: Alex Maness. Who’d a-thunk it? A fresh, innovative, heart-sqeezing...
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