Burning Coal Theatre’s production of the coming-of-age tale is careful and current.
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The Dangers of Gerrymandering Get Equal Representation in “Packing and Cracking”
In the UNC Process Series’ latest virtual event, audiences get a chance to play along at home.
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A Virtual Performance of “It Can’t Happen Here” Recalls the Demagogues of the Past
The Sinclair Lewis novel is ““eerie in its predictive qualities,” Daniel Wallace says.
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Theatre Raleigh Leaves Longtime Downtown Home; Opens New Venue in North Raleigh
The move is for financial reasons, according to artistic director Lauren Kennedy Brady—but it may also be an exciting new way forward.
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The Struggle to Fit the Stage in Your Screen Hampers “Waiting for the Host”
Raleigh Little Theatre strains to recalibrate the overbroad gestures appropriate in a full proscenium theater to the subtler micro-gestures needed when acting for laptop cameras.
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At the American Dance Festival’s New Creative Healing Parade, a New Tradition Is in Slow-Motion
The October 3 neighborhood drive-by event will showcase local dancers in local lawns.
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Performing-Arts Presenters Scramble to Adapt Very Old Habits for a Very New World
Season rollouts from American Dance Festival, Carolina Performing Arts, Duke Performances, and NC State LIVE all ask the same question: How can you schedule arts programming without a live audience?
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Fourteen Ways of Looking at What the 19th Amendment Achieved—and What It Didn’t
The 19th Amendment Project Through Sunday, Aug. 30, $2 (screening)/$25 (series) Burning Coal Theatre, Raleigh Dianna Wynn knew the 19th Amendment would make a great play. “It has all these interesting characters: antagonists, protagonists, and heroes with not-so-admirable sides to them,” says the president of Wake County’s League of Women Voters. “Theater provides a good […]
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Black Women Bring Unique Insight to Shakespeare in “Love’s Labour’s Lost”
“There’s a certain way Black women have to navigate the world—in code-shifting and the performance of their everyday lives—that is already built into Shakespeare’s characters,” says director JaMeeka Holloway-Burrell.
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Sara Juli Explores the Challenges of Marriage in “Burnt-Out Wife” at the American Dance Festival
“It’s not a piece about my husband and his faults, or me and mine, although you can see both in it,” Juli says.