ANNAPURNA Honest Pint Theatre @ North Raleigh Arts & Creative Theatre 7713-51 Lead Mine Road, Raleigh 919-866-0228 www.nract.org Through Sept. 6 Before contemplating a wedding, young couples should consider a sensible warm-up: say, hiking the Appalachian Trail. Marriage is a very long walkthat is, when it’s done correctly. A few weeks in many weathers on […]
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Fall Guide: New company Black Ops takes on local theater’s race problem
BLACK OPS: THE SHIPMENT 8 p.m. Thurs.–Sat. Sept. 3–19 $5–$15 Common Ground Theatre 4815B Hillsborough Road, Durham 919-384-7817 www.littlegreenpig.com JaMeeka Holloway-Burrell, artistic director of the new Durham theater company Black Ops, plans to turn our region’s conversation on race up a notch in September. Imagine hearing these words in the front row of Common Ground […]
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With new hearing loop system, Raleigh Little Theatre gives patrons with impaired hearing the best seats in the house
SPAMALOT Friday, Aug. 28–Sunday, Sept. 13 Raleigh Little Theatre 301 Pogue St., Raleigh 919-821-4579 www.raleighlittletheatre.org Over the summer, technical crews removed the seats and carpeting from Raleigh Little Theatre‘s Cantey V. Sutton Theatre, installing a series of flat copper cables in large loops around various seating sections and the balcony. When connected to a transmitter […]
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Small things stir big emotions in Paperhand Puppet Intervention’s most accomplished show to date
A DROP IN THE BUCKET Paperhand Puppet Intervention 919-923-1857www.paperhand.org @ The Forest Theatre 123 S. Boundary St., Chapel Hill Through Sept. 7 @ North Carolina Museum of Art 2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh Sept. 11–13 As the young girl looks back at the empty space where she had been playing, her make-believe cape, a quilt, […]
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Theater review: The middle class is under attack in Lisa D’Amour’s Detroit
Detroit ★★ ½ Cardinal Gibbons High School Through Aug. 8 In GASP Theatre Company’s production of state-of-the-suburbs drama Detroit, it’s hard to say which is more disturbing: realizing that neighborhoods like the one depicted on designer Pete Morello’s backyard set weren’t always as they are now, or acknowledging that future versions may be even more […]
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Pilobolus bounces back, Shen Wei subsides: The 2015 American Dance Festival in review
How do you keep doing it? At the 2015 American Dance Festival, which drew to a close at the end of July, the question was addressed explicitly in Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host, where Monica Bill Barnes and Anna Bass depicted two dancers performing the same material, night after night, on tour. In […]
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Tiny Engine Theatre Company’s bawdy, supremely silly 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche
5 LESBIANS EATING A QUICHE Tiny Engine Theatre Company @ Common Ground Theatre 4815B Hillsborough Road, Durham 919-384-7817 www.tinyenginetheatre.com Through Aug. 2 Ah, quiche. How did you become our most sexually suggestive dish? Was it when chef James Beard, who claimed to have introduced you to America, called you “infinitely accommodating”? Or when humorist Bruce […]
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Family focus and richer witches make Bare Theatre’s Macbeth worthwhile
MACBETH Bare Theatre @ Forest Theatre 123 S. Boundary St., Chapel Hill 919-322-8819 www.baretheatre.org Through Aug. 1 If you want to get the same answers, keep asking the same questions. That’s one takeaway from the 11 productions of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night mounted in the area since I began work as a theater critic, 21 years […]
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Manbites Dog Theater announces 2015/16 season
Manbites Dog Theater announced its upcoming 2015/16 season today. As usual, the Durham-based company will feature four resident productions, supplemented by an “Other Voices” series of guest artists. The company’s 29th year includes encore productions of noted recent shows by StreetSigns Center for Literature and Performance and The Delta Boys. The season opens in October […]
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The ArtsCenter mounts its best short-play festival yet
10 BY 10 IN THE TRIANGLE The ArtsCenter 300-G E. Main St., Carrboro 919-929-2787 www.artscenterlive.org Through July 26 In a roadside diner, two solemn middle-aged women come to a Raymond Carver-style reckoning. In a dirty prison cell, a torture victim teaches a new inmate a lesson he’ll never forget. In an upscale living room, two […]