It is just as important to be well danced as it is to be well versed or well read. Robert Farris Thompson, Tango: An Art History of Love (Pantheon, 2005) Every Argentinian is proud of the tango. Yet, it’s a commonly held belief that Argentina’s black minority is so small as to have played no […]
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A non-redundant Cabaret
Those who look at Raleigh’s Broadway Series South’s offerings and ponder the possible redundancy of the North Carolina Theatre have a show they need to see. It’s Cabaret, the latest NCT production, and it closes this weekend in Raleigh Memorial Auditorium. Kander and Ebb’s cautionary memoir of Berlin during the rise of National Socialism is […]
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Black theater summit
“It’s exciting. It’s fun. And you don’t go to bed at all.” Director’s assistant Carolyn Jones is describing the National Black Theatre Festival, a biennial gathering of international and African-American playwrights, actors, theater companies and scholars. For six days, artists and audiences both go ’round the clock, from early morning storytelling festivals to midnight new […]
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Sex, Art and Analysis
Sigmund Freud is notorious for, among other things, asking the question, “What do women want?” The Archipelago Theater production of A New Fine Shame reminds us that some women of Freud’s time weren’t afraid to answer that question directly. But their ideas have been lost to history just the same. A New Fine Shame is […]