Greene, a minister as well as an emerging playwright, makes his debut at the National Black Theatre Festival in Winston-Salem this week.
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The Women’s Theatre Festival Proves the Value of Experimental Theater
Smart shoppers paid $1.32 per show when they bought a $25 pass for the 2019 WTF Fringe. Is it too soon to make a down payment for next year’s edition?
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The Sound and Fury of Neurodiversity in Black Irish Baile’s New Show
If “Live Tissue” is a trip—and it definitely is—it’s riddled with sudden drops, stops, and unexpected switchbacks, fusing high-velocity hip-hop and modern dance.
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Triangle Music Issue: “Blue Muse” and Music Maker 25 Embody the Living Blues
Photographer Timothy Duffy’s collection “Blue Muse” is part of a yearlong celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Hillsborough’s Music Maker Relief Foundation.
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Black Irish Baile’s Ronald West Uses the Body to Light Up the Brain
“When I was twenty-seven, I had a seizure that lasted probably fifteen minutes,” says West, who is now thirty-three. The epileptic episode erased entire sections from more than a decade of his life.
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Curtis Eller’s American Circus Is Like Folk-Punk Howard Zinn
The poison pen comes out early on “A Poison Melody,” the new album by maniacal local banjo wizard Curtis Eller and friends.
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Clones Have Feelings Too (And Other Near-Future Warnings From Caryl Churchill)
Dystopian dramas “A Number” and “Far Away” bring grim tidings of the day after tomorrow to CAM Raleigh, courtesy of Burning Coal Theatre Company.
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The TheatreFest Production of “Bright Star” Is Stronger than the Material
In Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s play about writing, the writing is the problem.
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You Gotta Keep ‘Em Regulated (And Other Tough Lessons from “Junk”)
Ayad Akhtar, whose incendiary drama “Disgraced” left theatrical scorch marks at PlayMakers Rep in 2015, finds plenty of contemporary relevance in the world of 1980s junk bond traders.
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Why Is ADF Retracting from DPAC and Downtown?
We noticed that the festival’s largest stage is down to one show this year, and only two shows take place off Duke’s campus. According to ADF, it’s a feature, not a bug.