As they worked with the narratives they encountered, the composers repeatedly found that the stories themselves pointed in specific musical directions.
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A New Regional Theater Company Interprets Samuel Beckett’s “Spectral Quality”
Beckett’s characters are clearly haunted in works like Rockaby, Footfalls, and Ohio Impromptu, which runs this weekend in a production by Other Only Windows at Raleigh’s Pure Life Theatre.
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In a Risky, Rewarding Gambit, Director Tia James Takes Shakespeare’s Tale of Warring Brothers and Questing Lovers Out West.
“As You Like It,” PlayMakers Repertory Company’s first film, streams online through January 21.
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Winston-Salem Theater A/Perture Cinema, Is One of Sundance Film Festival’s Seven Satellite Screening Locations
The downtown movie house will show eight of the festival’s feature films and three shorts during the last weekend of Sundance, January 28–30.
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After a Long Intermission, Theater Came Back Swinging in the Last Half of 2021
Here’s a rundown of the year’s best shows, with nods to those we lost.
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Comedian Joseph Richards on ‘Breaking Up with Jesus’
This week, the comedian, autobiographical monologist, and UNC Communication PhD student premieres their solo show at UNC’s Media Arts Space in the site of the former Walgreens on Franklin Street.
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A Sweeping Installation at UNC’s Memorial Hall Reconceives and Reframes the Science of Sound
Think of something you’d like to see disappear. Then speak its name into the exhibit’s intercom.
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For a Revival of His First Play, Howard Craft Looks Back at His Beginnings as a Playwright at NCCU
“Either you get the rural South, or New York, Chicago or L.A,” Craft says. “But what about towns like Durham, Fayetteville, or Roanoke? We don’t get a lot of those stories.”
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Post-Vaccines, Local Theater Companies Take Stock of What Was Lost—and What Comes Next
“We are literally in rehearsal now, both on stage and off. We’re in rehearsal for who we are becoming.”
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Two New Regional Productions Take Winding, Unorthodox Paths to Opening Night
As seasoned theater veterans, Melissa Dombrowski and Joanna Sisk-Purvis know the old showbiz adage, “Changes keep a show fresh.”