EVITA ★★★1/2 DPAC Through March 16Evita is not your typical musical, and Eva Perón is not your typical heroine. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s mythologizing tale of the ambitious woman who rose from poverty to become Argentina’s adored first lady is more of an operatic biography than a plot-driven show, and Eva is more […]
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Les Miz at NC Theatre
LES MISÉRABLES NC Theatre/ Broadway Series South @ Memorial Auditorium, Duke Energy Center Through Feb. 23 Most theatergoers at productions of Les Misérables are not first-timers. They know Victor Hugo’s story of revolution and redemption in early 19th-century France; they’ve cried to Claude-Michel Schönberg’s surging score and Herbert Kretzmer’s passionate lyrics. This familiarity has its […]
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A Queer Kiss between gay teens at Deep Dish Theater
A Queer Kiss Deep Dish Theater Through Nov. 16 “You have girl lips.” That’s the weighted observation made by one teenage boy to another at the beginning of A Queer Kiss, a half-teasing, half-flirtatious comment that catalyzes a whole lot of emotional turmoil. Bret (Daniel Doyle) and Scott (Matthew Hager) are both drama students and […]
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Chaos theory, academia and human sexuality in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia at University Theatre
University Theatre Arcadia Titmus Theatre, Frank Thompson Hall, NCSU campus Through Oct. 6 Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia turned 20 this year, but the play is timeless in its bridging of the past and present, and its probing of chaos theory, academia and human sexuality. It spans two centuries within a Georgian manor, jumping back and forth […]
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Ionesco’s absurdist tragic farce The Chairs
The Chairs Common Ground Theatre Through Sept. 21 Eugène Ionesco is considered one of the major figures of theater of the absurd, the French dramatic trend of the 1940s and ’50s that stressed the absurdity of the modern condition: life’s lack of meaning, alienation, illogic and the failure of communication. You may have read Ionesco’s […]
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#firstworldproblems in Raleigh Little Theatre’s Art
Art Raleigh Little Theatre Through Sept. 29 Yasmina Reza’s Art is a hostile, funny play about a trio of men that clocks in at a swift 90 minutes without intermission. Like Reza’s God of Carnage, which Theatre Raleigh presented earlier this summer, Art is fundamentally a play about privileged people behaving badlya premise that local […]
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Bare Theatre’s As You Like It
As You Like It Bare Theatre with Raleigh Little Theatre and Pine Cone RLT’s Stephenson Amphitheatre Through Aug. 30 Shakespeare’s As You Like It is a crowd-pleaser, a spirited comedy rife with wordplay, falling in love and mistaken identity. Last summer’s stunning production of the play for New York City’s annual Shakespeare in the Park […]
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A visit to Recyclique, a different kind of reuse shop
Recyclique 2811 Hillsborough Road Durham 919-286-7396 Friday 12–6 p.m. Saturday 10 a.m.–5 p.m. When visitors pull up to the quaint, lime-green building that houses Recyclique in Durham, it’s abundantly clear just how fitting the store’s hippie-chic name is. At first glance, the racks of vintage clothing and wicker furniture lining the porch tell us that […]
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Greta Gerwig on the end of youth and Frances Ha
Apologies to all those millennials who buy into the idea that 30 is the new 20: Writer and actress Greta Gerwig thinks you need to grow up already. “At 27, your youth is over,” she says. “It’s done.” Perhaps that’s a bit harsh, but it’s this theme of growing up in a climate of postponed […]
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Three New Art Spaces Testify to Downtown Durham’s Increasing Vitality
Durham’s substantial supply of industrial space has recently seen renovation and renewal in the form of SPECTRE Arts, Shadowbox Studio, and Supergraphic.