DREAMGIRLS Theatre Raleigh @ Kennedy Theatre 2 E. South St., Raleigh 919-996-8700 www.theatreraleigh.com Through July 269 TO 5 North Raleigh Arts and Creative Theatre 7713-51 Lead Mine Road Raleigh 919-866-0228 www.nract.org Through July 26 As Martin Luther King Jr. pursued his famous dream, Berry Gordy perfected a different one in the Detroit offices of Motown […]
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Local plays about video game culture and Eugene O’Neill win national recognition
Local playwrights Adrienne Earle Pender and Allan Maule have travel plans to make. This fall, Pender will be the third recipient of a new artist residency at the Eugene O’Neill Foundation, and Maule’s EverScape will be produced in August at the New York International Fringe Festival. Raleigh’s Theatre in the Park has produced two of […]
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In A Body in Fukushima, dancer Eiko and photographer William Johnston measure the fallout of trust in technology
A BODY IN FUKUSHIMA [photography exhibit] Reynolds Industries Theater 125 Science Drive, Durham Through July 23 Pleiades Gallery 109 E. Chapel Hill St., Durham Through July 25 Durham Arts Council 120 Morris St., Durham July 5–July 25 FreeA BODY IN PLACES [dance performances] American Dance Festival @ Cordoba Center for the Arts 923 Franklin St., […]
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In walking theater production Moving Pieces:2, Raleigh is the stage and your texts complete the script
MOVING PIECES:2 6 and 8 p.m. July 10, Aug. 7 and Sept. 4 Seed Art Share @ Trinity Gallery 549 N. Blount St., Raleigh 919-412-3049 www.seedraleigh.org Does new technology applied to theater produce a digitized Greek chorus or a chorus of heckling geeks? When Seed Art Share bravely enabled cell phone crowd chats during its […]
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At ADF, Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca find modern relevance in ancient Greek tragedy
Soledad Barrio and Norche Flamenca: Antigona 8 p.m. June 26, 1 and 7 p.m., June 27 $19.25–$51.50 American Dance Festival @ Durham Performing Arts Center 123 Vivian Street, Durham 919-684-6402 www.americandancefestival.org Sheathed in red, she wordlessly walks to the center of the stage. Antigone, the eternal, who always affirms the human duty to our families […]
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Falling for Burning Coal Theatre Company’s five-star Dark Vanilla Jungle and harrowing Rum & Vodka
DARK VANILLA JUNGLE 7:30 p.m., June 25 and 27RUM & VODKA 7:30 p.m. June 24, 8 p.m. June 26, 2 p.m. June 27 Burning Coal Theatre Company @ Murphey School Auditorium 224 Polk St., Raleigh 919-834-4001 www.burningcoal.org Now I know: It’s a mistake to look away. In a moment of reverie, I was gazing out […]
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At Triad Stage, Common Enemy lightly fictionalizes NCAA scandals at UNC and beyond
COMMON ENEMY Triad Stage 232 S. Elm St., Greensboro 336-272-0160 www.triadstage.org Through June 28 According to Preston Lane, his new play, Common Enemy, is “not about basketball, you understand. Not really.” It’s an audacious claim. Designer Fred Kinney’s basketball-court set at Greensboro’s Triad Stage may not be regulation-sizehalf of it makes a 90-degree turn up […]
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In Burning Coal Theatre Company’s Sea Wall, actor Joey Heyworth plumbs unfathomable depths
SEA WALL Burning Coal Theatre Company 224 Polk St., Raleigh 919-834-4001 www.burningcoal.org Through June 28 It’s a beginning actor’s exercise: Say the words “I love you” like you would to the love of your life. Then, imagine they’ve just given you a million dollars, and say the words again. Now repeat the phrase as if […]
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Justice Theater Project’s superbly sung and choreographed The Color Purple has one fatal flaw
THE COLOR PURPLE Justice Theater Project @ Clare Hall, St. Francis of Assisi 11401 Leesville Rd., Raleigh 919-264-7089www.thejusticetheaterproject.org Through June 28 There are some verifiably sexy numbers in Justice Theater Project’s The Color Purple. After the weary Harpo (Chase Rivers) and Sofia (Emelia “Me-Me” Cowans) list a litany of chore-day complaints, each salaciously asks the […]
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The 2015 American Dance Festival finds choreographers (and Ira Glass) reaching for other mediums
AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL June 11–July 25 Durham 919-684-6402 www.americandancefestival.org If you’ve always thought of veteran dancemaker Doug Varone as a choreographer, he has a bit of a surprise for you. “Actually, I consider myself a visual artist,” says the creator of Rise, Boats Leaving and last year’s The Fabulist. “I am painting in space with […]