Byron Woods

Were this a world in which all things must be proven, we wouldn’t get much done in it. I sit at a chair as I write this review; my fingers fly across the keyboard as I work. On the table before me, a glass of water sits in a small, circular puddle of its own […]

Can an embarrassment of riches remain an embarrassment nonetheless? If the subject is the accidental dance festival of Nov. 21-23, in which all of the region’s major college and university-affiliated dance programs scheduled their public concerts to run the same weekend, the answer is, unfortunately, yes. Our coverage of the six-company/five-show/four-night pile-up began last week […]

Apparently, it’s hard for Arthur Kopit to not be bitter. After scoring substantive hits on Broadway in the ’60s with such farces as Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feeling So Sad and The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis, he got involved in movies. Film changes […]

Six companies, five concerts, four days. All told, it was a veritable flurry of dance forms on regional campuses–indeed, one so significant that even The News and Observer paid attention to it. Actually, the N&O’s Orla Swift has been finally permitted to write about regional dance on a couple of occasions in the past month, […]

The Game of Love and Chance While “time in a blender” sounds like a promising alcoholic concoction (or a bad combination of Jim Croce and Jimmy Buffett, take your pick), the phrase actually applies to an intoxicating production at Deep Dish Theater. The Game of Love and Chance is a classic French comedy from the […]

Choreo Collective’s fall fundraisers tend to be a bit of a grab bag: decidedly eclectic affairs whose participants include students and regional newcomers on the same bill with accomplished choreographers and dance groups. Somewhere in their midst, their hosts gives audiences a peek at what’s in store for the spring. Welcoming newcomers and publicly endorsing […]

Local theatergoers have been simply overwhelmed by the volume: no less than 28 separate productions in October–just under one new opening a day on average. At least as many more are slated to open between now and the end of the year. It’s the official high water mark of the fall season. When Shakespeare wrote, […]

We saw them, briefly, last Sunday afternoon. All of them: the celebrants, the bride, the groom; the proud parents, brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts, nieces and nephews. The children of the village, there; the friends, the guests, the wishers-well: all there. The community, united in a time of love: all, all were there. And […]

Knowing Hollywood and network television, where imitation remains the sincerest form of profit-taking, American viewers are probably going to have a lot more opportunities in the near future to visit at least a simulation of an African-American barbershop. Maybe more than that: Someone must have already considered merging the Barbershop phenomenon with reality TV. Given […]

Say this much: Courtney Greer knows how to get people together. Since the turn of the century she’s been behind the scenes of several highly influential regional dance gatherings. In September 2000, Greer hosted “Come As You Are,” an invitational at Raleigh’s Arts Together that gave locally established choreographers a chance to mix it up […]