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What Will We Remember After the Meltdown? Manbites Dog Presents MR. BURNS, A...
(L-R) Sam (Geraud Staton), Jenny (Lormarev Jones), Matt (Michael Brocki), and Colleen (Carly Prentis Jones) rehearse for some primetime historical re-enactment. Photo: Ed Hunt. I may be the worst...
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You Us We All, Shara Worden’s New Opera, at Carolina Performing Arts
‘You Us We All’ by Shara Worden, Andrew Ondrejczak & BOX at Holland Festival 2014 Amsterdam. Photo courtesy the artists. The more I think about this opera, the more wonderful it seems as an...
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Keep on Trampin’: Post-apocalypse positivity at Manbites Dog Theater
Charlie Chaplin’s iconic character, The Tramp, (Rob Jansen) faces the future as a lonely survivor of atomic cataclysm. The Tramp’s New World was developed by Jansen from James Agee’s unproduced...
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Vacation’s Over, Theatre’s in Full Swing
Area theaters are kicking the new year off right. PlayMakers Repertory Company’s PRC2 series has a very interesting one-woman show through Jan. 10, KJ Sanchez’ Highway 47. One of the play’s purposes,...
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A Common Wealth Endeavor at Common Ground
Small and Tired. The title had me from the get-go. Turns out to be a fascinating 2013 play by Australian Kit Brookman–based loosely on a big and fierce source, the Oresteia. “Loosely” is a key word...
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PRC’s Nuanced New Version of THREE SISTERS: Ennui on Stage, but Not in the...
The Ensemble in PlayMakers Repertory Company’s production of THREE SISTERS by Anton Chekhov in a new version by Libby Appel. Jan. 20-Feb. 7, 2016. Directed by Producing Artistic Director Vivienne...
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Hail Aphrodite:VENUS IN FUR at Common Ground, through V-day
Love is a many-splendored thing. Mark Filiaci and Meredith Sause in David Ives’ VENUS IN FUR, at Common Ground Theatre. Photo: Alex Maness. David Ives’ 2011 play, Venus in Fur, concerns a theatre...
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You Don’t Know the Troubles I Seen: brownsville song (b-side for tray), at...
Every one has troubles and sorrows, and generally it is difficult to find a perspective where your own don’t look like the biggest, worst ones. The current show at Manbites Dog may be able to help you...
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Enter THE NETHER, at Manbites Dog
I’ve been trying to figure out, for four days now, what to say about The Nether, Jennifer Haley’s 2012 exploration of the intersection of physical and virtual realities, on stage at Manbites Dog...
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Colossal COLUSSUS
The Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern has just opened an amazing piece of work at Manbites Dog Theater (part of Manbites’ Other Voices series), a play that gives full scope to the group’s many...
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Story Body: Sara Juli’s TENSE VAGINA, at ADF Out of the Box
The American Dance Festival‘s tag line this season is “every body tells a story.” Well, yeah. As my long-time readers know, I generally prefer those bodies not to have microphones. I want them to shut...
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The Wonderful World of Disney? See the dark side in Manbites’ Season Opener
Manbites Dog Theater opened its 30th season (!) last night with a strange, compelling little play with a big long title: A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney, by...
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Manbites Dog Plays The Trump Card
Carl Martin in The Trump Card, adapted from the monologue by Mike Daisey. Photo: Manbites Dog Theater. Manbites Dog Theater is doing it again: currently they are presenting a very fresh production of...
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American Meltdown: A Timely Reprise of THE CRUCIBLE, at PlayMakers Rep
Who’s lying now? The Ensemble in Court in PlayMakers Repertory Company’s production of The Crucible by Arthur Miller. October 19-November 6, 2016. Directed by Desdemona Chiang. Photo: Jon Gardiner....
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Just Passing Through: The Open House, at Manbites Dog Theater
L TO R: J Evarts, Matthew Hager, Marcia Edmundson, Michael Brocki, and Michael Foley as Father, in THE OPEN HOUSE by Will Eno. Directed by Jeff Storer, at Manbites Dog Theater October 27 – November 12,...
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Black Ops Probes for Elusive Truth in The Typographer’s Dream, at Manbites
The Typographer’s Dream, by Adam Bock, plays at Manbites in a joint production with Black Ops, through Dec. 17, 2016. With Jessica Flemming as the Typographer (note type on her shirt), JoRose as the...
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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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