Friday, May 18 Walltown Children’s Theatre, Durham 8 p.m., $15–$25, www.walltownchildrenstheatre.org If you missed Senior Night when it screened in the Southern Documentary Fund’s in-progress series last year, here’s a chance to see Durham filmmaker David Mayer’s short, now completed, as part of a well-rounded evening of entertainment rich with local interest. Centering on Riverside […]
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Lower Your Lids and Open Your Third Eye with the Sublime Spiritual Techno of Jon Hopkins
If 2013’s Immunity promoted Jon Hopkins from respected niche taste to noted techno auteur, his brand new album, Singularity, enshrines him as one of today’s most visionary, ambitious producers. We reached the Moogfest headliner, who heroically stepped in on deadline day and took our call in an airport lounge after Chelsea Manning cancelled her interview […]
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Manbites Dog Theater Takes Its Final Bows with Will Eno’s Wakey, Wakey
Thursday, May 10-Sunday June 10 Manbites Dog Theater, Durham Various times, $5-$20, www.manbitesdogtheater.org “We’re here to say goodbye,” reads the epigraph from Wakey, Wakey that Manbites Dog Theater selected to promote its upcoming production, the Triangle premiere of Will Eno’s play. If the brief quotation is unusually profound, it’s because it not only cuts to […]
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With The Changeling, Jaybird O’Berski Runs Amok Through a Quintessentially Problematic Seventeenth-Century Script and Leaves Us to Figure Out What to Make of It
Through Saturday, May 19 The Fruit/Mystery Brewing/Culture Mill www.littlegreenpig.com In the seventeenth century, a couple of swells named Middleton and Rowley wrote a play about people using sex as a bargaining chip, a lever, an escape route, a weaponanything but a token of love. One half is set in a castle where everyone wants somebody […]
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Neon Artist Nate Sheaffer Fills a Corner of Dix Park with Light You Can Hear and Sound You Can See
LIGHT THE WOODS WITH SOUND Through Sunday, May 27 Dix Park, Raleigh www.dorotheadixpark.org Hey, did you hear about this light-and-sound thing in Raleigh? No, not You Are Here at NCMA. Light the Woods with Sound, a new public-art installation, is upvery upin Dix Park this month. Local neon artist Nate Sheaffer suspended hundreds of pieces […]
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Local Creators and Tons of Free Swag Descend on Ultimate Comics for Free Comic Book Day
Saturday, May 5 Ultimate Comics, Triangle-wide 10 a.m.-5 p.m., free, www.ultimatecomics.com Free Comic Book Day, an annual tradition in which comics publishers from major to minor release special free issues that readers can snatch up at comics stores, sounds like a great deal. It’s free, right? The catch is that the whole point is to […]
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Lump Is for The Lovers, Joy Meyer’s Tarot-Based Video Installation
Friday, May 4 Lump, Raleigh 6-9 p.m., free, www.lumpprojects.org At a scale larger and closer than life, pink crepe myrtles quiver in spectral layers. Curtains rustle in glowing purple rooms. An antique mirror rests in a water-stained sink. Windows and doors beckon into other worlds. Such is the imagery found in The Lovers, Joy Meyer’s […]
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N.C. State Alum Tim Kirkman Returns to Screen and Discuss His Acclaimed Indie Drama, Lazy Eye
Friday, April 27 NCSU’s Hunt Library, Raleigh 7 p.m., free, www.ncsu.edu “Tim Kirkman’s drama about two men who reunite after fifteen years is so well-written and acted you feel like you’re eavesdropping,” Variety said of Lazy Eye, an indie feature that came out in 2016. Fifteen years after a summer fling, Dean and Alex reunite […]
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How to Officiate a Wedding on the Fly When You’re a Marriage Skeptic
Two hundred miles west of the Triangle, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, two waterfalls begin at the head of Linville Gorge. As they cascade down a series of tiers, they merge into one before plunging through more than forty feet of open air. To the Cherokee people, this was “the river of many cliffs,” but […]
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Novelist Meg Wolitzer Is Better Than Franzen and Eugenides. If the Literature Industry Weren’t Sexist, Everyone Would Know That.
The literary establishment probably has been wary of Wolitzer not only because of sexism, but also because of its corollary, fear.
