As a biracial Asian American myself, who straddles Asian identity and whiteness, this comedy feels especially apt.
Katy Koop
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Lormarev Jones’s “My Geriatric Uterus” Is Handmade and Personal
The digital production of the show, which originally premiered at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival, is exhilarating from start to finish.
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Two Stylized but Unflinching Plays About the Trauma of Sexual Abuse
In PlayMakers’ How I Learned to Drive, a driving manual becomes a vehicle for processing a painful past, while Duke Theater Studies’ Bad Roads is a documentary drama about the Ukrainian civil war.
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An Eighteenth-Century Mathematician Takes Charge of Her Afterlife in Émilie
Émilie du Châtelet, played by the sharp Michelle Murray Wellsat Sonorous Road, was notable for her French translation of and commentary on Newton’s Principia.
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In a Word Probes the Stickier Regions of Memory, Guilt, and Grief
The production is undoubtedly minimalist, but Lauren Yee’s script and Bulldog Ensemble Theater’s acting create a decidedly maximalist experience.
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Theater Review: Some Stale Jokes and Skimpy Set Pieces Aside, Raleigh Little Theatre’s Convent Comedy Sister Act Is Habit-Forming
Sister Act ★★★ Through Sunday, Sep. 9 Raleigh Little Theatre, Raleigh Like the movie, Raleigh Little Theatre’s production of Sister Act has a lot to offer: amazing vocals, show-stopping spectacle, and snappy comedy. Unfortunately, the script feels very much like it’s still meant for 1992 movie theater audiences. Many jokes feel outdated, if not offensive, […]
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Adding Eighteen Actors to Mike Wiley’s Blood Done Sign My Name Changes So Much More than the Length of the Playbill
BLOOD DONE SIGN MY NAME Through Sunday, June 3 Raleigh Little Theatre www.raleighlittletheatre.org A cast of one turns to nineteen in Mike Wiley’s new ensemble version of his adaptation of Timothy Tyson’s Blood Done Sign My Name, currently in its premiere run at Raleigh Little Theatre. The play, like the book, revolves around the racially […]
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The Outmoded Power Structures of Race and Gender Encased in a Strong Production of Love Letters Feel Sadly Contemporary
LOVE LETTERS Through Sunday, Jan. 21 Fletcher Opera Theater, Raleigh www.nctheatre.com NC Theatre’s current production of A.R. Gurney’s epistolary drama, Love Letters, is a testament to how powerful theater can be when it trusts its audience. At Fletcher Opera Theater, Bill Yates Jr.’s bare-bones set features just two desks, two chairs, two glasses of water, […]