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 […]
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From Sophocles to Georges Seurat, five local theater productions bring the world home
THE BURIAL AT THEBES NCSU University Theatre @ Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre 2241 Dunn Ave., Raleigh 919-515-3927 | www.ncsu.edu/theatre Through April 19TROJAN BARBIE StreetSigns Center for Literature and Performance @ UNC’S Swain Hall 101 E. Cameron Ave., Chapel Hill 919-542-5406 www.piedmontperformancefactory.org Through April 194000 MILES PlayMakers Repertory Company 150 Country Club Road, Chapel Hill 919-962-7529 | […]
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A government program targets potential school-shooters in near-future dystopian drama Recall
RECALL Tiny Engine Theatre Company @ Common Ground Theatre 4815B Hillsborough Rd., Durham 919-384-7817 www.cgtheatre.com Through April 4 As teachers and theater artists know, children have at least one thing in common with scripts: fundamentally, both are riddles whose contents and meanings are discovered only through time and extended scrutiny. Even less comforting, that outcome […]
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Gay marriage battles become fodder for drawing-room comedy in Regrets Only
REGRETS ONLY Theatre in the Park 107 Pullen Rd., Raleigh 919-831-6936 www.theatreinthepark.com Through April 12 Humankind, as T.S. Eliot noted, cannot bear too much reality. Thus was the drawing-room comedy invented. But where the gentilities of the genre once focused on the crustier peccadillos of the British and American upper crust (in the works of […]
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Saxapahaw’s Culture Mill unveils new initiatives, residencies, performances and a mysterious bus
CULTURE MILL EVENTS Compagnie Marie Lenfant: Body and Instrument With Tommy Noonan and Eric Kuhn Nightlight Bar & Club, Chapel Hill, April 17, 8 p.m. With Ginger Wagg and Crowmeat Bob The Carrack Modern Art, Durham, April 18, 8 p.m. Being Two (open retreat) Haw River Ballroom/ Paperhand Puppet Intervention, Saxapahaw, June 13 Trust the […]
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The dark art of cabaret is staged as an emotional ambush in Paris 76
PARIS 76 Manbites Dog Theater 703 Foster St., Durham 919-682-4974 www.manbitesdogtheater.org Through April 4 Treachery awaits in cabarets, my friends. The lights go out in some dodgy dive as a chanteuse in silk sidles up to a microphone. You hear a few well-chosen notes as a piano, guitar and accordion set up a tasteful musical […]
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American Dance Festival’s 2015 season: Familiar faces and a few big surprises (Ira Glass?)
Some new names, but mostly new combinations of familiar ones: That’s the quick take on the American Dance Festival’s 2015 season, which was announced Tuesday. The season is dedicated to African American Dance Ensemble founder Chuck Davis, an ADF institution, with a ceremony at the Durham Performing Arts Center June 11. At the same time, […]
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Must-see plays at The ArtsCenter and Deep Dish Theater dispel the fog of war
Redbird One Act Play Festival THE FIRE OF FREEDOM PROPERTY The ArtsCenter 300-G E. Main St., Carrboro 919-929-2787 www.artscenterlive.org Through March 22 JOURNEY’S END Deep Dish Theater 201 S. Estes Dr., Chapel Hill 919-968-1515 www.deepdishtheater.org Through March 21 Edward R. Murrow once observed that we are not the descendants of fearful men. I’d like to […]
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In Arthur Miller’s update of Ibsen, a whistleblower’s righteous zeal also accounts for his flaws
AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE PlayMakers Repertory Company @ Paul Green Theatre 150 Country Club Rd., Chapel Hill 919-962-7529 www.playmakersrep.org Through March 15 None among us is the Prince of Truth, whose company few can long endure. That inconvenient fact came home for me Saturday night, when I was forced to part ways with a […]
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Under next leader, PlayMakers should cultivate new work, increase diversity and keep mending fences with the local theater community
Looking for a new arts leader is like looking for a new heart,” says theater director Emily Ranii. PlayMakers Repertory Company is seeking such a transplant, now that artistic director Joseph Haj plans to leave for Minneapolis’ Guthrie Theater in July. The search will differ markedly from the process that brought Haj to Chapel Hill […]
