Autobahn FATE (Free Association Theatre Ensemble) @ Common Ground Theatre, Nov. 13-15 @ Market Street Books, Nov. 20-22 Being trapped in a car together can often bring conflicts to a boil, resulting in hundreds of miles of yelling and awkward silence. In my experience, such conflicts usually end after everyone laughs it off at an […]
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N.C. Theatre’s Yeston & Kopit’s Phantom
Yeston & Kopit’s Phantom N.C. Theatre @ Memorial Auditorium, Progress Energy Center Through Oct. 26 For the record, Phantom, N.C. Theatre’s musical adaptation of Gaston Leroux novel currently playing at Memorial Auditorium, is not the Andrew Lloyd Webber version whose tunes are constantly covered by aspiring singers and elevator-music companies. It’s a different version, developed […]
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The Delta Boys’ Cowboy Mouth
Cowboy Mouth The Delta Boys @ Meymandi Theatre at the Murphey School Through Oct. 24 Sam Shepard’s dramas always veer into the rawest of human emotionsand the semiautobiographical Cowboy Mouth is perhaps his most personal work. The Delta Boys’ presentation at Meymandi Theatre combines the short with two other Shepard monologues, creating a searing, sometimes […]
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The Skriker; more
The Skriker Raleigh Ensemble Players @ ArtSpace Through Oct. 25 It takes guts and imagination to stage a complex, cerebral work on a limited budget in a limited space. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work. Such is the case with Raleigh Ensemble Players’ production of Caryl Churchill’s The Skriker, which takes an already-difficult text and manages […]
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The Escapism Film Festival is for true, very red-blooded cinephiles
Escapism Film Festival Carolina Theatre of Durham Oct. 17-19 The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival holds more artistic merit, and the N.C. Gay and Lesbian Film Festival holds more social relevance. Yet for some of us, there will not be a greater film festival in North Carolina this year than the fifth annual Escapism Film […]
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As downtown Raleigh booms, SPARKcon looks to its future
⇒ SPARKcon runs Sept. 18-21; visit www.sparkcon.com for details; view the SPARKcon schedule and map (html or PDF) It’s a week and a half before the opening of the third annual SPARKcon, and about 20 of the participants are gathered on the second floor of DesignBox in downtown Raleigh to finalize plans. Dressed in everything […]
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‘night, Mother
‘night, Mother Raleigh Little Theatre Through Sept. 28 It’s not the most cheerful way to spend an hour and a half, but Raleigh Little Theatre’s production of ‘night, Mother is a superb showcase for actors Linda O’Day Young and Martie Todd Sirois in a drama that gets under your skin. Marsha Norman’s 1983 Pulitzer Prize […]
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History on the move at Blount Street Commons
I usually sleep in on Saturdays, but it’s not every weekend you get to see half a million pounds of history towed down the street. I’m on North Blount Street in downtown Raleigh to watch the Blake Moving Company haul two historic houses to new foundations as part of a new development, an event that […]
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The Servant of Two Masters; Gods of Autumn
The Servant of Two Masters Deep Dish Theater Through Sept. 13 Commedia dell’arte is one of the most influential forms of stage comedy, but be forewarnedanyone who’s complained about the two-hour-plus running times of Judd Apatow’s comedies has never sat through an 18th-century farce. Such is the case with Deep Dish Theater’s production of Carlo […]
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I Am an Insect; Personals; Hot Mikado
I Am an Insect Paperhand Puppet Intervention Through Sept. 7 at UNC’s Forest Theater; Sept. 12-13 at N.C. Museum of Art Paperhand Puppet Intervention’s I Am an Insect: A Fluttering Processionary of Infinitesimal Ideas, despite its tongue-twisting title, is a guaranteed way to get kids interested in insects. The outdoor production at UNC’s Forest Theater […]
