Pat Green has toured with Kenny Chesney, Gretchen Wilson and Keith Urban. He claims a legion of fans, and his 10th album, 2006’s Cannonball, landed in the Top 20 of Billboard’s 200. He’s been nominated for three Grammys and released records on two major labels, most recently Sony’s Nashville division BNA. But Green is not […]
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Elizabeth: Almost by Chance a Woman; The Belle of Amherst; Hamlet
Elizabeth: Almost by Chance a Woman Stillwater Theatre Meredith College Through Sept. 30 One of the quirkier choices for the Nobel Prize in literature, Dario Fo had difficulty obtaining visas to the United States during the mid-1980s. Perhaps as a result, his work was once considered the forbidden fruit of American theater. Today in Raleigh, […]
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Misterioso at Duke’s Following Monk series
An encounter with Smith Warehouse through the black mask of a rain-soaked night certainly evokes intrigue and suspense. Located along a hidden alleyway of Durham (but owned by Duke University), the cold brick building is surrounded by a stiff metal gate and leaves visitors wandering its lengthy perimeter in isolation. It doesn’t seem implausible that […]
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Hank and My Honky Tonk Heroes
Hedwig and the Angry Inch Common Ground Theatre Through Sept. 22 The smash musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch can be off-putting to some audiences and indeed, Saturday evening’s crowd at the Common Ground Theatre seemed nervous. The laughter was hushed and sparse as they observed the bewigged blond East Berlin rock star standing downstage […]
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Tennessee Jed
Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Tennessee Jed fancies himself a musical outlaw. Like an old-timey cowboy fronting the Western plains, the Raleigh singer-songwriter has spent much of the past year conquering his own promised land while recording his new album Acoustica. It’s a passe, perhaps mawkish […]
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Hank and My Honky Tonk Heroes; Intimate Apparel
Hank and My Honky Tonk Heroes Temple Theatre Through Sept. 30 When Nashville veteran and off-Broadway star Jason Petty steps onto the stage in a Nudie suit, black leather cowboy boots and a wide-brimmed hat, it’s hard not to do a double take. Petty looks like Hank Williams and channels himnot only in appearance, but […]
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The Complete History of America (Abridged); How I Got That Story
The Complete History of America (Abridged) Theatre in the Park Through Sept. 9 A history lesson on a muggy late-summer afternoon may not seem all that appealing, but there are surprises in store at Raleigh’s Pullen Park Theatre. The first clue comes from the pop-infused soundtrack playing in the background during audience seating: Bruce Springsteen’s […]
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The Grapes of Wrath; How I Got That Story; A Shoe for Your Foot
The Grapes of Wrath The Justice Theater Project Through Sept. 2 at Cardinal Gibbons Performing Arts Center In its productions, the Justice Theater Project has always delved head-first into issues of social oppression. Therefore, it’s fitting that the company opens its fall season with Frank Galati’s Tony Award-winning adaptation of the Steinbeck classic The Grapes […]
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Complications aside, Schooner II arrives
Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Schooner frontman Reid Johnson is sitting in a Carrboro diner, eating an early dinner, nudging his French fries to the side of his plate and looking at his food: “I’m kind of a song-writing hypochondriac,” he says. “I wondered if I […]
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Five Women Wearing the Same Dress; Urinetown: The Musical
Five Women Wearing the Same Dress Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy Through Aug. 19 Somewhere between the sassy Southern gossip of Steel Magnolias‘ beauty queens and the frank sexuality of Carrie and her Sex and the City pals sits Alan Ball’s 1993 off-Broadway production, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress. A mastermind of composing […]