Lucinda Childs Dance Company: Dance Tuesday, Feb. 7 UNC’s Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill The Glass at 80 festival (ongoing at Carolina Performing Arts through this weekend), a ten-day celebration of composer Philip Glass’s eightieth birthday, displays the composer’s cross-genre influence as well as his concert music. The festival brings to light Glass’s respect for the […]
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Movie Review: Blair Witch Takes Us Back to Ground Zero of the Found-Footage Horror Explosion
Blair Witch ★★★★Now playing The hype was high: a Blair Witch sequel that, according to early reports from critics, reinvents the found- footage genre. Similar hype surrounded Wes Craven’s 1994 genre-busting Scream, which proved influential for horror filmmakers to come because, at that point, the slasher flick was relying on the same tired tropes. But […]
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A Loss of Words: Remembering PlayMakers Repertory Company’s Connie Mahan
“There are words for everything in the mind but if you speak with your heart, your work will grow continuously.” As I sit at my desk at PlayMakers Repertory Company, thinking about the moment in the wake of our Associate Director of Communications Connie Mahan’s death, the proverb encompasses the impact she has had on […]
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Tim Carless’s Live Score for Peter Greenaway’s Cook Was Appetizing at The ArtsCenter
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover: Reimagined Saturday, June 25, 2016 The ArtsCenter, Carrboro The Saturday before last at The ArtsCenter, Tim Carless premiered his original score for an abridged version of the cult classic The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, director Peter Greenaway’s most celebrated film. When Greenaway […]