Brigadoon Burning Coal Theatre Company Through Sept. 23 Brigadoon, as you probably know, is a delightful fantasy about love and faith, in which two jaded New Yorkers stumble onto an unmapped Scottish village under a strange spell. The show started as a Lerner and Loewe musical, opening on Broadway in 1947. It was first made […]
Kate Dobbs Ariail
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Ray Dooley electrifies in PlayMakers’ production of An Iliad
Photo by Jon Gardiner for PlayMakers RepRay Dooley in An Iliad AN ILIAD* * * * * starsPRC2 @ Kenan Theatre, UNC campusSept. 5-9 We think of Homer as the first bard, the beginner of dramatic storytelling. But storytelling is as old as dirt: ancient, the collected dust of time that retains the human imprint. […]
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A fantastic tribute to The Rite of Spring at UNC leads the university arts programming season
Most of Carolina Performing Arts’ dance programming for The Rite at 100 will occur in the spring (and it will be mind-blowing), but Oct. 14 will see the Canadian Compagnie Marie Chouinard performing Chouinard’s choreography of The Rite of Spring, along with her interpretation of Nijinsky’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, set to […]
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ADF 2012: Mark Morris offers fitting finale to this summer’s festival, which closes Saturday
MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUPAmerican Dance Festival@ DPACJuly 27-28 The American Dance Festival closes its 2012 performance season this weekend at the Durham Performing Arts Center, with two nights of the Mark Morris Dance Group, accompanied by the fine trio of the MMDG Music Ensemble. Compared to some of the ferocious, rowdy and ridiculous programs preceding […]
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ADF 2012: Brian Brooks Moving Company
Rosalie O’Connor Brian Brooks Moving CompanyJuly 16-18American Dance FestivalReynolds Industries Theater Brian Brooks makes a big production out of very little material. He choreographs all of the dances, which initially give the impression of being big and glitzy, for the aptly named Brian Brooks Moving Company. And he does it with a limited vocabulary that […]
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ADF 2012: Perennial favorite Pilobolus falls flat
Photo by Sam TrullSkyscrapers PilobolusADF at DPACThrough July 7www.dpacnc.com I know there is supposed to be a first time for everything—but a disappointing Pilobolus performance? Before last night I hadn’t thought it possible. Life constantly assures us that everything changes and that is all that can be depended upon, and after 40 years, surely Pilobolus’ […]
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Coming of age in the era of Marilyn, Eisenhower and the Beats in 1*9*5*6 Degrees of Separation
Photos by Eric WatersGlenn Gould (Matthew Young), Grace Kelly (Elisabeth Johnson) and Allen Ginsberg (Derrick Ivey) 1*9*5*6 Degrees of SeparationOther Voices@ Manbites Dog TheaterThrough June 24 All art is to some degree autobiographical. Any creation tells us something about its creator. But some art is more explicit, depicting or revealing the artist as she sees […]
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Alexander Calder’s sculptures, back in fashion again
Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy Nasher Museum of Art Through June 17 Every generation has to bury earlier artists so that the new zeitgeist can be put forth. But, fortunately, a subsequent generation will unearth and rehabilitate the best of the banished. This seems to have happened to the sculptor Alexander Calder. […]
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Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them at Manbites Dog
Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them Manbites Dog Theater Through Dec. 17 Jeff Storer, artistic director of Manbites Dog Theater, has a penchant for plays that probe matters of identity, family and community, and he directs them with rigorous compassion. His ongoing search for fresh work for the theater takes him to the annual […]
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Philip Glass’ Satyagraha: Sounds are beautiful, but stamina is required.
Photo by Ken Howard/ Metropolitan OperaRichard Croft as Gandhi SATYAGRAHAThe Met Live in HD, live in theaters Nov. 19Rebroadcast 6:30 p.m. Dec. 7 Regal Brier Creek, North Hills, Crossroads Philip Glass is one of those artists who make you work for the satisfaction that is ultimately to be found in his music. His 1980 opera […]