The premiere run of the play about Arthur Ashe runs at Burning Coal Theatre through Sunday, Feb. 10.
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Renay Aumiller’s RAW Laid Open the Intricacies of Making Indie Dance Mid-Career
By definition, a cutting edge is a thing in motion; without movement, nothing is cut.
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A Family Must Regrow Anew When Death Tears Out Its Roots in Charly Evon Simpson’s Jump
The contemporary drama opens at PlayMakers on Wednesday, Jan. 23.
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Rejected Plays Prove the Naysayers Wrong in This Doesn’t End Well
The South Stream Productions omnibus of seven short plays rejected by other presenters runs at Sonorous Road Theatre through Sunday, Jan. 20.
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After MeToo, in a Theater World Rocked by Sexual-Assault Scandals, Implied Consent Isn’t Enough. The Era of the Intimacy Director Is Here.
Raleigh Little Theatre is employing an intimacy director to handle the highly fraught scenes of sexual coercion in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure.
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Over a Quarter of a Century, NCMA Director Larry Wheeler Put a Regional Museum on the World Stage
“Because he believes in the work, it pushes you to work harder, to go farther.”
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The Art of the Thriller Is What You Leave Out, but Lady Misrule Takes the Rule Too Far
Tiny Engine Theatre’s “Christmas noir” runs at Walltown Children’s Theatre through Dec. 15.
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In The Weir, the Real Horror Begins When the Ghosts Leave Us Alone
Conor McPherson’s strange 1997 drama is running at Burning Coal Theatre through Sunday, Dec. 16.
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A Young Director Taps Area Vets for New Theater Group Monkey Paw/Monkey Claw Collective
After a visual-art fundraiser at Shadowbox this week, the group mounts its debut production, Harold Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter, at Straw Valley in February.
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I Am My Own Wife Is a Theatrical Photobomb Whose Playwright Upstages His Subject
Still, actor Brian Westbrook gave a fine account in a staged reading from Justice Theater Project.
