EQUIVOCATION Theatre in the Park107 Pullen Rd. Raleigh 919-831-6936 www.theatreinthepark.com Through June 21 LOVE, LOSS, AND WHAT I WORE Actor’s Comedy Lab | North Raleigh Arts and Creative Theatre 7713-51 Lead Mine Rd. Raleigh 919-866-0228 www.nract.org Through June 14 Bill Cain was a playwright with a problem. His 2009 drama EQUIVOCATION was an intriguing inquiry […]
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Seed Art Share and Raleigh Little Theatre stage A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the Raleigh Rose Garden
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Seed Art Share & Raleigh Little Theatre @ Raleigh Rose Garden (June 4, 5, 7) 301 Pogue St., Raleigh @ Adam Cave Fine Art (June 6) 115 E. Hargett St., Raleigh 919-821-4579 www.raleighlittletheatre.org Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is perfect for a secluded valley of vernal delights like the Raleigh Rose […]
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Little Green Pig adapts Nick Cave’s Gothic novel And the Ass Saw the Angel at Manbites Dog Theater
AND THE ASS SAW THE ANGEL Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern @ Manbites Dog Theater 703 Foster St., Durham 919-682-4974 www.manbitesdogtheater.org Through June 6 The mother was tall and corpulent. Her facial features, set around a gallery of crooked, mostly missing teeth, resembled actor Victor Buono in drag. The browbeaten father was bald and much […]
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Theatre Raleigh musical Pump Boys and Dinettes is a generous slice of ’70s-era Southern Americana
PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES 1/2 Theatre Raleigh @ Kennedy Theatre 2 E. South St., Raleigh 919-832-9997 www.theatreraleigh.com Through June 7 Tight harmonies and a loose country-rock vibe are on order in Theatre Raleigh‘s Pump Boys and Dinettes. Before it became the hot trend of the mid-’00s, the characters on stage in this 1982 musical were […]
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From safe bets to daring debuts, preview the hottest theater and dance of the solar season
There’s no shortage of conventional theater lined up for the solar season. A Few Good Men (Kennedy Theatre, June 17–28, www.theatreraleigh.com) and the rarely-mounted Dreamgirls (July 8–26) are on Theatre Raleigh’s agenda. NCSU TheatreFest (Thompson Hall, May 28–June 28, www.ncsu.edu/theatre) concludes with the thriller Wait Until Dark, and elsewhere in Raleigh, there’s Shakespearean mystery Equivocation […]
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In The Movement: 50 Years of Love and Struggle, Ron Jones portrays decades of civil-rights progress at Common Ground Theatre
THE MOVEMENT: 50 YEARS OF LOVE AND STRUGGLE Dialogues on Diversity @ Common Ground Theatre 4815B Hillsborough Road, Durham 919-384-7817 www.cgtheatre.com Through May 23 We want to believe the major events that compose human progress are permanent. Indeed, the belief figures into a number of world religions: that moments like the Buddha’s enlightenment under the […]
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Dishonesty is an artform in Deep Dish Theater Company’s The Liar; Hairspray comes to Temple Theatre
THE LIAR Deep Dish Theater Company 201 S. Estes Dr. Chapel Hill 919-968-1515 www.deepdishtheater.orgThrough May 23HAIRSPRAY Temple Theatre 120 Carthage St. Sanford 919-774-4512 www.templeshows.com Through May 17 You know, a play about lies (and the lying liars who tell them, in Senator Al Franken’s immortal words) cuts a bit close to the bone for us […]
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Devra Thomas to leave Common Ground Theatre
A change in leadership is in the works at Durham’s Common Ground Theatre, a performance and teaching space that has nurtured and supported many Triangle theater artists. On July 1, a new executive director, Shelby Hahn, will replace Devra Thomas, who is relocating with her family to Morehead City. “Common Ground serves a really unique […]
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Two oft-seen musicals, Raleigh Little Theatre’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch and N.C. Theatre’s Next to Normal, return—are they worth the repeats?
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH Raleigh Little Theatre 301 Pogue St., Raleigh 919-821-4579 www.raleighlittletheatre.org Through May 24 NEXT TO NORMAL NC Theatre @ Fletcher Opera Theater 2 E. South St., Raleigh 919-996-8700 www.nctheatre.com Through May 10 Sometimes, what we hang onto undoes us; sometimes, it’s what we cast away. In either case, advice from outsiders […]
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Manbites Dog Theater’s The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls is a streetwise, comical cautionary tale
THE FAIRYTALE LIVES OF RUSSIAN GIRLS Manbites Dog Theater703 Foster St. Durham 919-682-4974 www.manbitesdogtheater.org Through May 9 One of our deepest underlying fears is the fear of erasure. We feel it in the chill we experience when considering the desaparecidos: the luckless inhabitants of Spain and Latin America who, in the ’70s and ’80s, were […]
