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COCK: a recent play on the perennial theme of the wandering rooster
The program for COCK, British author Mike Bartlett’s 2009 play that ends its run at Manbites Dog Theater Oct. 19, includes a verse from a song by the late great Willie Dixon that gets right to the...
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Go Down, Moses
This article was originally published by INDYWEEK, 10/23/2013, and appeared in print with the headline “A night different from other nights.” I gave the production 5 out of 5 stars. A powerful...
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MEASURE BACK: There is no time before war, and no future without it
T. Ryder Smith in MEASURE BACK. Photo courtesy Duke Performances. I’m old. It’s definite now. I don’t have to ask the mirror anymore. I was chosen as someone who looks old–though not rich, Jewish, or...
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Changing, changing: METAMORPHOSES at PlayMakers, in repertory with THE TEMPEST
Stories of metamorphosis abound in every culture; our changing bodies and changing desires have caused them to arise in the human mind since the beginning. Anyone raised in Western literary culture...
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Common Wealth at Common Ground: MANY MOONS
This review was originally published in IndyWeek on Nov. 13, 2013, and on indyweek.com. Common Wealth on the rise with Many Moons by Kate Dobbs Ariail J Evarts as Meg in MANY MOONS. Photo: Alex Maness....
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A Change that Changed Durham: THE BEST OF ENEMIES at Manbites Dog
Derrick Ivey and Lakeisha Coffey in THE BEST OF ENEMIES at MDT. Photo: Alan Dehmer. From my review in CVNC: 2013 has already been an extraordinary year in theatre for the Triangle, but one of the most...
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A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS sings at the Carrboro ArtsCenter
(L to R) Justin Smith, Gil Faison, Lora Deneen Tatum, Alphonse Nicholson, Bonnie Roe. Photo: Adam Graetz. The Carrboro ArtsCenter Stage has just opened a Christmas production to culminate its 2013...
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Romancing the Firearm: Mike Daisey premieres THE STORY OF THE GUN at PRC2
In his latest one-man show, a rare commissioned work for PlayMakers Repertory Company’s PRC2 series, monologist Mike Daisey runs his prismatic riffs on the gun in America. The gun: a gun, any gun, all...
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Lizards and other lovers in Albee’s SEASCAPE at Common Ground
Samantha Corey, Ryan Brock, John Honeycutt and Julie Oliver in South Stream Productions’ SEASCAPE, now playing at Common Ground Theatre. Photo: Patrick Campbell. This article originally appeared in...
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Cry If You Want To: Little Green Pig’s Knock-out CELEBRATION at Shadowbox
Thaddaeus Edwards as Gbatokai, in LGP’s CELEBRATION. Photo: Alex Maness. When the lights came up in the Shadowbox, and the cast took its bow at the close of Celebration on February 7, the actors were...
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GROUNDED at Manbites Dog
Madeleine Lambert gives a powerful performance as The Pilot, in Manbites Dog Theater’s production of GROUNDED. Photo: Jon Haas. In Grounded, currently at Manbites Dog Theater, an American Air Force...
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Leviathan’s 21st century AMADEUS at Common Ground Theatre
John Jimerson as Salieri in Leviathan’s production of AMADEUS. Photo: Jaybird O’Berski. The very considerable local theatrical talent in Durham is in a constant state of flux with groups forming or...
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ASSASSINS Hits Target, Wins Prize at PlayMakers Repertory Company
Attention must be paid to PlayMakers’ ASSASSINS. L to R: Jeffrey Meanza as Charles Guiteau, Maren Searle as Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, Gregory DeCandia as Leon Czolgosz and Joseph Medeiros as Guiseppe...
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HOLD THESE TRUTHS at PlayMakers
Every American should see this play, because our Constitutional protections are not always self-evident. The nightmare CAN happen here, and it has. Joel de la Fuente as Gordon Hirabayashi, et al., in...
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Our Super-Heroes, Now Working Magic at Manbites Dog Theater
Marcia Edmundson, Lakeisha Coffey, Thaddaeus Edwards, and Mary Guthrie as The Fathom Town Enforcers, fundraising (or not) from their submarine lair, in SPIRITS TO ENFORCE, now playing at Manbites Dog...
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Souls on a Journey: ArtsCenter Stage’s GEM OF THE OCEAN
Pittsburgh Recollections, Romare Bearden’s 1984 tile mural as reinstalled 2012 at Pittsburgh’s Gateway Center T station. 13 x 60 feet. From my review published 5/12/2014 on cvnc.org: It’s a daunting...
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Make Love Not War
Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern premieres new work by Monica Byrne, TARANTINO’S YELLOW SPEEDO, at Manbites Dog Theater Kana Hatakeyama as Eun Mi Youn and Dan Wales as Esteban Calvo in LGP’s world...
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MONSTER CAMP: Summer Sisters’ Sweet Skit
The Summer Sisters in MONSTER CAMP. Photo: Jenn Evans. There’s this group–a tribe–a porous-bordered cell–of creative female performance artists in Durham who like to get together in the summer and work...
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Don’t Shoot: Roger Guenveur Smith’s Timely RODNEY KING at PRC2
Roger Guenveur Smith in his one-man show RODNEY KING, at PRC2 through Sept. 7. Photo: Patti McGuire. PlayMakers Repertory Company‘s second stage series, PRC2, generally presents...
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Chekhov-tinted Comedy in PRC’s VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE
Have I mentioned lately how lucky we are in the Triangle to have a very good regional professional theater at our public university in Chapel Hill? Currently, as it regularly does, PlayMakers...
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