Some stories you live. Then you tell the tale. Playwright, ethnographer and performer Ashley Lucas began work on Doin’ Time, her one-person show in the Solo Takes On festival, when her father was denied parole by the Texas prison system in the summer of 2003. In a 2008 interview, she said, “When I was brave […]
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Nicholas Nickleby: What did YOU see?
The first week of the British blockbuster Nicholas Nickleby closes tonight at Playmakers Rep — and we are looking for the buzz on the show. Why? For some reason, journalists aren’t being allowed to see Part I until its “official” opening, on Nov. 21 — at the end of its second week. Conventional Playmakers productions […]
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Live: Ten rounds with Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen Durham Performing Arts Center Tuesday, Nov. 3 Durham went 10 rounds with Leonard Cohen last Tuesday night. That assessment isn’t just based on the stamina the spectrally voiced 75-year-old songwriter displayed after nimbly bounding onto the DPAC stage moments after 8 p.m. and animating 24 hits, choice obscurities—and one new work he’d premiered […]
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At UNC, the Process Series helps creators develop new works
UNC Process Series Photographs With the Audience Clifford Owens Nov. 6-7, 8 p.m. When We Danced Gregory Ramos Nov. 17, 7:30 p.m. Downriver Dane Coen Nov. 21-22, 8 p.m. All of the above shows are in UNC’s Gerrard Hall. Admission is free. See the Process Series website. Caleb Calypso and the Midnight Marauders Howard Craft […]
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The Process Series and Howard Craft
The Process Series + The Process Series and Clifford Owens + Our review of Caleb Calypso On the day of his new play’s premiere last week, Howard Craft reflected on the origins of Caleb Calypso and the Midnight Marauders. As a tank crewman in the Second Armored Cavalry, he was stationed in Bamberg, Germany from […]
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The Process Series and Clifford Owens
The Process Series + The Process Series and Howard Craft Multimedia artist Clifford Owens is being a bit evasive. I’m asking him about exactly what he plans to do with the audience that shows up for Photographs With an Audience this Friday and Saturday night in Gerrard Hall. Spontaneityand not giving the game awayprompts him […]
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A five-star Glengarry Glen Ross from Deep Dish Theater
Glengarry Glen Ross Deep Dish Theater Company Through Nov. 14 Here’s the pictureand it’s not a pretty one: Unemployment is skyrocketing in the U.S.; its peak, somewhere north of 16 percent, represents the country’s highest level of joblessness since the Great Depression. Credit is tight; home sales are tanking. There have been clear signs of […]
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“A theatrical night out with the boys that’s not to be missed:” Deep Dish Theater’s Glengarry Glen Ross nets Indy’s latest 5-star review
Our complete review of the Deep Dish Theater production of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross will run in next week’s Independent. But for a show deserving a five-star reviewonly the paper’s 11th since 2003a little advance warning seems entirely in order. Our advice is get your tickets now: They might be a little harder to […]
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Picasso’s Closet: The Independent Interview with Ariel Dorfman
I spoke with Ariel Dorfman about his play, Picasso’s Closet, for about 45 minutes in his office at the John Hope Franklin Institute at Duke, at midday on Oct. 13, 2009. Nasher Museum of Art will present a staged reading of the play in conjunction with its Picasso and the Allure of Language exhibit, Oct. […]
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Fighting temperamental scorpions, impossible odds – and the age of jade: David Copperfield at DPAC
Magician David Copperfield‘s greatest adversary isn’t the sort of technical snafu that reportedly had him scrub one of the most amazing effects from his 5:30pm performance of An Intimate Evening of Grand Illusion at DPAC yesterday afternoon: a 50’s model Lincoln convertible that we saw him, somehow, suddenly producenot only out of thin air but […]
