The three-day festival of performances and workshops culminates after a two-week residency at UNC-Chapel Hill’s CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio.
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In “Could Be Worse,” Choreographer Anna Barker Counts the Cost of Trying To Make a Living in Dance
“could be worse” is a three-word kiss-off to four pandemic years that posed some of the most existential threats that the choreographer—and her art form—have faced.
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A Tale of Two “Misery” Productions
PlayMaker’s Repertory Company and Raleigh Little Theatre may be staging simultaneous productions of the Stephen King classic, but they’re making the coincidence work.
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2023 Fall Arts Preview: What Triangle Theater to See
From “A Case for the Existence of God” and “Misery” to “Funny Girl ” and “100% the Triangle.”
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The ArtsCenter Finds New Ground at Its New Home—And Fortuitously Leaves Its Former Digs to an Emerging Theater Company
The $4 million, 17,000-square-foot new space sits one block off the intersection of Main and Weaver Streets in downtown Carrboro.
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A Guide to Second Stage Productions at Burning Coal
Productions of “The Face of Emmett Till,” “OR,” and “Ruby” run this June.
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The American Dance Festival Returns With an Ambitious Slate of New Companies and Choreographers
“People want to dance; they want to be a part of that community. And they’re coming back.”
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Director JaMeeka Holloway Turns Her Sights Toward the Candid, Rapid-Fire Play “Single Black Female”
“It felt so familiar to all the ways me and my girlfriends speak on a day-to-day basis,” Holloway says. “It felt so accessible.”
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With Guided Visits to the North Carolina Museum of Art, an Artist Asks Who Art Museums Are for and What They Can Be
It’s a particularly appropriate moment for Stacey L. Kirby’s work: to commemorate its 75th anniversary in 2022, NCMA undertook a reimagining of itself as an institution.
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NRACT Deals With the Ethics of Nudity Onstage in the Peter Shaffer Drama ‘Equus’
The play is an unconventional mystery—not a whodunit but a whydunit, instead—as it journeys into the maze of a human psyche.