July 20, 2005
V.C. Rogers
Bio: V. Cullum Rogers is a Durham-based cartoonist, caricaturist and illustrator. He has been the editorial cartoonist for the Indy since 1997.Link: http://www.vcrogers.comEmail: [email protected]
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Tuning in Tomorrow
“I have this little dog-and-pony show; it’s your basic cartoonist’s presentation,” Dan Perkins was saying Thursday at the Carolina Coffee Shop in Chapel Hill. Perkins is a soft-spoken guy with a high forehead, and at age 44 he resembles a younger David Gergen. But under the pen name Tom Tomorrow, he mounts a fierce, funny […]
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Claire de Loons
Fuddy Meers packs more laughs into its two hours than you’re likely to find in any other play this season, and one of the biggest comes when one of its shadier characters tries to take control of the chaos around him by saying, with a perfectly straight face, “Let’s be normal.” In a Manbites Dog […]
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Tales from the Script
Even though they’re both famous authors, Chaucer and O. Henry aren’t mentioned in the same breath very often. But you can experience both in Orange County this month–the former in the ArtsCenter Community Theatre’s update of The Canterbury Tales, and the latter in PlayMakers Repertory Company’s musical adaptation, An O. Henry Christmas. The two shows […]
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Out, Damned Scot
For a play that’s supposed have a curse on it, Macbeth sure is popular. Maybe that’s part of its appeal, in the same way that the “haunted” house in a neighborhood is the one the kids most want to get into. It also doesn’t hurt that the play has a swift, straightforward plot; contains multiple […]
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The fright factor
This is the time of year for unexpected shocks and tales of spirits risen from the dead–last weekend’s State-Carolina game springs to mind–so it seemed only appropriate for this column to take in Raleigh Little Theatre’s Dracula. Haskell Fitz-Simons’s production is a mixed bag, but it does feature a pair of fine performances by Jack […]
