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“A Hundred Words for Snow" Is a Poetic Odyssey Into the Unforgiving Unknown
Burning Coal Theatre's production of the coming-of-age tale is careful and current. Read more
Oct. 23, 2020
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The Dangers of Gerrymandering Get Equal Representation in "Packing and Cracking"
In the UNC Process Series' latest virtual event, audiences get a chance to play along at home. Read more
Oct. 21, 2020
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A Virtual Performance of “It Can’t Happen Here” Recalls the Demagogues of the Past
The Sinclair Lewis novel is "“eerie in its predictive qualities,” Daniel Wallace says. Read more
Oct. 14, 2020
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Theatre Raleigh Leaves Longtime Downtown Home; Opens New Venue in North Raleigh
The move is for financial reasons, according to artistic director Lauren Kennedy Brady—but it may also be an exciting new way forward. Read more
Oct. 12, 2020
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The Struggle to Fit the Stage in Your Screen Hampers “Waiting for the Host”
Raleigh Little Theatre strains to recalibrate the overbroad gestures appropriate in a full proscenium theater to the subtler micro-gestures needed when acting for laptop cameras. Read more
Oct. 07, 2020
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At the American Dance Festival’s New Creative Healing Parade, a New Tradition Is in Slow-Motion
The October 3 neighborhood drive-by event will showcase local dancers in local lawns. Read more
Sep. 30, 2020
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Performing-Arts Presenters Scramble to Adapt Very Old Habits for a Very New World
Season rollouts from American Dance Festival, Carolina Performing Arts, Duke Performances, and NC State LIVE all ask the same question: How can you schedule arts programming without a live audience? Read more
Sep. 09, 2020
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Aug. 19, 2020
Black Women Bring Unique Insight to Shakespeare in "Love's Labour's Lost"
“There’s a certain way Black women have to navigate the world—in code-shifting and the performance of their everyday lives—that is already built into Shakespeare’s characters," says director JaMeeka Holloway-Burrell. Read more
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