WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT … PlayMakers Repertory Company, Chapel Hill Through March 13, $15–$54 I first heard of Desdemona Chiang when I read “Why The Mikado is Still Problematic: Cultural Appropriation 101,” her response to yellowface stagings of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera in Seattle and New York, on the theater website HowlRound. A […]
Caitlin Wells
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Burning Coal Theatre Company has championed Middle Eastern artists. So why did its director deride them on Facebook?
Roger Ebert said that movies are like a machine that generates empathy. I feel the same way about theater. But one local theater director’s empathy failed him after the terror attacks in Paris. On the night of Nov. 13, Jerome Davis, artistic director of Raleigh’s Burning Coal Theatre Company, took to Facebook to laud Parisians […]