10 BY 10 IN THE TRIANGLE The ArtsCenter Through July 27 Starting a 10-minute play is hard, but finishing one is apparently harder. That’s one of the takeaways from the ArtsCenter’s 13th festival of 10-minute plays, 10 BY 10 IN THE TRIANGLE. The five one-acts we’re recommending from the current collection would have been nine […]
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The camera dances in the American Dance Festival’s international film series
INTERNATIONAL SCREENDANCE FESTIVAL Nasher Museum of Art 2 p.m., July 5, 12, 19 Free Putting a work of dance on a screen changes it, as is evident at the American Dance Festival’s 19th annual INTERNATIONAL SCREENDANCE FESTIVAL. The curated film and video series of dance performances and documentaries continues over the next three Saturdays at […]
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Design flaws bedevil Death by Design
DEATH BY DESIGN ★★ 1/2NCSU TheatreFest through June 29 Since frames and red herrings are par for the course in mystery novels, the genre’s aficionados were mostly unfazed when amateur detectives Jane Marple and Jessica Fletcher were recently arrested in a coordinated sting operation. (Miss Marple’s exploits have long been immortalized in the novels of […]
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The Sum of Us
THE SUM OF US Honest Pint Theatre @ North Raleigh Arts and Creative Theatre Through June 29 In 1990, David Stevens’ THE SUM OF US was ahead of the curve: a play where a central character’s gayness isn’t controversial to his family or friends. Unfortunately, that forward-thinking premise doesn’t entirely inoculate his script from editing […]
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Politics get personal in Other Desert Cities
OTHER DESERT CITIES Theatre Raleigh @ Kennedy Theatre Through June 29 Many of you don’t need cable to get Fox News. It’s unavoidable, even for staunch liberals. All you have to do is show up for a family reunion or holidaythat, or friend certain relatives on Facebook. Spare a thought, then, for Brooke Wyeth (Dana […]
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Grey Gardens
GREY GARDENS Justice Theater Project @ St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church Through June 29 I cannot imagine that GREY GARDENSeither the 2006 musical or the 1975 Maysles brothers’ documentary on which it was basedwould have gained such popularity had its two mentally ill subjects not been immediate relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. But what […]
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Enigmatic wartime angst in Bully Boy
BULLY BOY Common Wealth Endeavors @ Common Ground Theater Through June 28 In Sandi Toksvig’s military drama, BULLY BOY, Major Oscar Hadley reflects that more British soldiers in the Falklands War committed suicide than died during battle. Hadley knows this firsthand, having acquired his wheelchair during that profoundly bewildering tour of duty. The shared story […]
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Racial revision in Walking Across Egypt
WALKING ACROSS EGYPT NCSU TheatreFest @ Thompson Hall Through June 22 Some theologians have said that evil is a problem of the imagination, but in the theater, the opposite is often true. A number of its evils stem from a distinct lack of imagination. The inability of some to re-envision plays traditionally produced with white […]
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Paranormal shenanigans in Blithe Spirit
BLITHE SPIRIT Raleigh Little Theatre @ Cantey V. Sutton Theatre Through June 22 Is there life after farce? The answer for BLITHE SPIRIT is still yes. In its subtitle, Nöel Coward calls his play improbable, a fair assessment of a light comedy about ghosts and séances that became the West End’s most durable smash during Nazi Germany’s […]
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Leap into ADF’s 2014 season
VERTIGO DANCE COMPANY DPAC, June 12–13, 8 p.m. Jerusalem’s Vertigo Dance Company returns to ADF with the smart, sexy, moody Vertigo 20, an evening-length work celebrating the company’s 20 years of dance. Two decades in one show? Sounds like a hodgepodge, but a video preview and advance chatter suggest that it works. Founder and choreographer […]
