Ken Howard/ Metropolitan OperaJay Hunter Morris in the title role SIEGFRIEDThe Met Live in HDRegal Brier Creek Stadium 14 All my life, I’ve been hearing—words and music—the epic story of Siegfried, the hero of the eponymous third section of Richard Wagner’s four-part opera inspired by Norse mythology, Der Ring des Nibelungen, or the Ring Cycle. […]
Kate Dobbs Ariail
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Rakish but satisfying Don Giovanni at Met in HD. Up this weekend: Wagner’s Siegfried
Marty Sohl/ Metropolitan OperaMojca Erdmann as Zerlina and Mariusz Kwiecien as the title character in the Met’s new production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.” Don GiovanniMetropolitan Opera Simulcast @Brier Creek Stadium 14, Saturday, Oct. 29Rebroadcast: Wednesday, Nov. 16 The digital revolution has made many wonderful things possible, but culturally speaking, one of the grandest is the […]
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The Paper Hat Game
The Paper Hat Game Duke Theater Studies @Sheafer Theater Through Sept. 18 In recent years there has been much interesting experimentation with video in theatrical productions, but only very recently have cost, craft and imagination coalesced to make the mixture of the hyper-real and the coolly virtual effective on the stage. Duke Theater Studies faculty […]
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Cirque du Soleil’s Alegria soars
Cirque du Soleil’s AlegriaRBC Center, RaleighEvening and matinee shows through July 10 The fabled Cirque du Soleil, based in Montreal, but now a world-wide performing institution, has brought its light-hearted Alegria to Raleigh for a run that includes shows well-timed for children, who will especially appreciate the silly clowning in this confection that lauds the […]
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Pain and wisdom in Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking
The Year of Magical Thinking4 starsPRC2; UNC Center for Dramatic Art@Kenan TheatreThrough May 1 Joan Didion adapted her own blistering, caressing memoir of a year of loss and mourning, so the zing of her language is not lost in the one-woman staged version of The Year of Magical Thinking, on view at PlayMakers through Sunday, […]
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Two illuminating textile exhibitions at N.C. State’s Gregg Museum
Traces: Mapping a Journey in Textiles & The Pull of the Moon Gregg Museum of Art & Design Through May 14 Textiles have always been important at N.C. State University, both in the College of Textiles and the College of Design. They also form a large portion of the collections of the Gregg Museum there, […]
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The Met’s Nixon in China, to be rebroadcast tonight, is a spectacular success
Ken Howard/ Metropolitan OperaJames Maddalena (left) and Janis Kelly (second from right) as Richard and Pat Nixon with dancer Haruno Yamazaki and Kanji Segawa NIXON IN CHINAMetropolitan OperaRebroadcast @Regal Brier Creek, Regal North Hills6:30 p.m., March 2; tickets here The Metropolitan Opera’s HD re-broadcast of the most recent in its series of simulcasts is coming […]
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The Merce Cunningham farewell tour stops in North Carolina
Merce Cunningham Dance Company Presented by Duke Performances At Durham Performing Arts Center Feb. 4–5, 8 p.m. Additional events on Duke campus: History Matters: Suite for Five Performance & discussion At Reynolds Industries Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus Feb. 3, 6:30 p.m., free Master class with MCDC director of choreography Robert Swinston At The Ark […]
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Choices and children: Exit Cuckoo comes to PlayMakers
Photo by Carel Di GrappaLisa Ramirez in Exit Cuckoo Exit Cuckoo (nanny in motherland)3.5 starsPRC2@Elizabeth Price Kenan Theatre; through Jan. 16 Who’s taking care of the children is a question that seems to become more pressing every day. Their mothers have never been the sole caregivers of the children, but taking care of their children […]
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How good are the simulcast operas in local multiplexes?
Carmen repeats at the Galaxy Cinema Wednesday, Jan. 12, at 7 p.m.; maximum ticket price is $15. Watch “Les voici, voici la quadrille” from Carmen. La Fanciulla del West repeats at Brier Creek Stadium 14 and North Hills Stadium 14 on Wednesday, Jan. 26, at 6:30 p.m. Watch the poker scene from La Fanciulla del […]