Bare Theatre wanted new music for “Marat/Sade,” the classic play about the original sadist, so they called in al Riggs, who had already plumbed humanity through a dizzying array of lenses.
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Big of Heart but Small in Scope, “Loving” Soft-Focuses an Interracial Couple’s Persecution
Peter Manos’s play with music about the Supreme Court case banning anti-miscegenation laws in the 1960s is finishing its run at Pure Life Theatre Company this week.
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Lynn Nottage’s Unsparing “Sweat” Is a Funeral Song for America’s Working Class
The Justice Theater Project production anatomizes the bleak outcome of workers being abandoned by manufacturers—and federal labor safeguards—in the Rust Belt at the turn of the century.
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The Slippery Line Between Memory and Imagination in “Orange Light”
Howard L. Craft’s new play about one of the worst industrial disasters in North Carolina’s history rings true on the strife of oppressed workers, though some details strain credulity.
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Medieval Morality Meets Modern Meta-Theatrics in PlayMakers’ “Everybody”
There’s more than a note of doubt—if not a playwright’s outright remorse—in the uneven opening monologue of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s adaptation of a fifteenth-century drama.
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An Actor with Autism Leads a Superior Production of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”
The staggering authenticity and intimacy of Raleigh Little Theatre’s production exposes the shortcomings of the professional touring version that played at DPAC three years ago.
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Our Favorite Local Theater of 2019
As actors and directors, playwrights and characters, women and their stories dominated the best plays we saw on Triangle stages this year.
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19 People of 2019: Charles Phaneuf
The director of Raleigh Little Theatre put the “community” in “community theater.”
Now he’ll try to do the same for the arts in all of Wake County.
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Musical Theater Thrives on Escapism. PlayMakers’ Radically Deconstructed “Ragtime” Offers No Escape.
Strip away the period trappings of Terrence McNally’s Tony-winning musical, and America in 2019 looks much like America in 1906.
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As Sonorous Road Closes, Pure Life Theatre Fills Its Space with a New Collective Model
More than just a promising season of musical theater, Deb Royals-Mizerk’s new venture is a vision of sharing and coordinating that the local theater community sorely needs.
