In Qui Nguyen’s “She Kills Monsters,” the protagonist both grieves and gets to know her deceased sister through her Dungeons & Dragons notebook.
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The Coronavirus Is Bringing Back the Glory Days of the Drive-in Theater
One new improvisation on the old tradition is Food Truck Flix, an outdoor film series and food truck rodeo taking place every weekend in Raleigh.
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Women’s Theatre Festival Highlights Asian American Theater and Film in a Time of Dangerous Rhetoric
“They ask for an Asian American, but they don’t know what an Asian American is.”
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The WTFringe Festival Opens with Powerful Monologues on Sobriety and Student Debt
Camille Thomas and Eileen Tull make courageous personal revelations in the Women’s Theatre Festival’s summer bonanza on Twitch.
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Burning Coal Breaks the Seal on Live Theater After COVID-19
Somebody had to go first. “ACCORD(ing)” demonstrates the limits and potential of gathering an audience together for a play during a pandemic.
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An Anti-Fascist Solo by Martha Graham Comes to the Carolina Performing Arts “At Home” Series
“Immediate Tragedy” premiered in 1937, then went quiet for 83 years.
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The American Dance Festival Goes Virtual, Local, and Grammable in “The World Is Our Stage”
“60 seconds is fun. … Many artists struggle with editing; to be legible, clear, and interesting in that time frame is a beautiful challenge.”
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The Women’s Theatre Festival Makes a Power Play to Crack the Virtual-Theater Problem in “Freakshow”
Intricate video design, miniature sets, and fancy encoding software will help translate the festival’s flagship summer show for an entirely new medium.
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The Silver Lining of COVID-19 Might Be the Golden Age of Livestreaming
As stage artists hustled to get their live work online amid coronavirus chaos, many of them discovered unanticipated benefits.
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If You Dare Leave the House Today Through Saturday, See Moonlight Stage Company’s “Venus in Fur”
By an eerie quirk of fate, this local show about the progenitor of the word “masochism” coincides with a completely separate local show about the progenitor of the word “sadism.”