2023 Fall Arts Preview: What Triangle Theater to See
From “A Case for the Existence of God” and “Misery” to “Funny Girl ” and “100% the Triangle.”
The ArtsCenter Finds New Ground at Its New Home—And Fortuitously Leaves Its Former Digs to an Emerging Theater Company
The $4 million, 17,000-square-foot new space sits one block off the intersection of Main and Weaver Streets in downtown Carrboro.
A Guide to Second Stage Productions at Burning Coal
Productions of “The Face of Emmett Till,” “OR,” and “Ruby” run this June.
The American Dance Festival Returns With an Ambitious Slate of New Companies and Choreographers
“People want to dance; they want to be a part of that community. And they’re coming back.”
Director JaMeeka Holloway Turns Her Sights Toward the Candid, Rapid-Fire Play “Single Black Female”
“It felt so familiar to all the ways me and my girlfriends speak on a day-to-day basis,” Holloway says. “It felt so accessible.”
Hari Kondabolu Talks Parenting, Politics, and Introducing More Personal Material Into His Work
“What do you do when you have a kid and all of a sudden the pressure is on to make more money? It’s a lot of questioning: Is being a popular NPR comedian enough to pay the bills?”
Local Dance Groups Connect Chinese American Youth With Traditional Culture
Ruby Slippers is a testament to the thriving arts scene within the Triangle’s Chinese American diaspora, with a handful of local organizations tailoring traditional Chinese dance to performers of all ages.
NRACT Deals With the Ethics of Nudity Onstage in the Peter Shaffer Drama ‘Equus’
The play is an unconventional mystery—not a whodunit but a whydunit, instead—as it journeys into the maze of a human psyche.
Not Even the Moore County Power Outages Could Stop Drag Queen Naomi Dix
As Dix performed what may now be the most infamous show of her career, the audience lit the theater with their phones, illuminating her in the glow of over 300 individual spotlights.
New Production ‘The Story of Us’ Draws on the Oral Histories of UNC-Chapel Hill LGBTQ+ Alumni
This weekend audiences will see the culmination of three years’ work: the first phase in documenting and This weekend audiences will see the first phase in documenting and studying the oral histories of more than 50 LGBTQ+ people who attended UNC from the 1950s through the 2010s. more than 50 LGBTQ+ people who attended UNC…
New Collective eggNYMPH Takes On an Annie Baker Tale of Generational Discontent
“We know these people,” director Nathalie Ray says of the characters in “The Aliens.”
An Evening-Length Series of Meditations Illuminates the Music of Phillip Glass
“Glass’s music invites us to see the world in a different way,” show creator Phelim McDermott says. “It can invite you to see a bigger pattern, a deeper pattern, in what the world is doing.”
Defiant Local Opera ‘Autonomy’ Was Commissioned After Roe v. Wade Was Overturned
The Dobbs decision came down while Morrisville’s Paradox Opera was working on its debut production, “Covid Chronicles,” last June.
A Surprisingly Upbeat Musical Commemorates the UpStairs Lounge Fire
Plus: Manbites Dog Theater co-cofounder Jeff Storer returns with a triumphant production of “RED.”
Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels bring their new opera ‘Omar’ to Carolina Performing Arts
The opera puts the insights of a 19th-century Sufi scholar enslaved in North Carolina to music.
In Two Productions, Spiritual and Social Reckonings Loom Large
An interfaith production of “My Name is Asher Lev” tells a story of community turmoil, while Burning Coal’s “Mlima’s Tale” tackles a different kind of reckoning.
Waiting for The End of the World with John Waters
“I am the filthiest person alive. Even though Johnny Knoxville is pretty close. I share my crown with him.”
Legendary Raleigh Comedy Club Goodnights Goes Underground
The club opened its first night at its new location in the Village District to a full house.
Opening Up the Possibilities of “Hamlet”
PlayMaker’s “Hamlet” and a review of Honest Pint’s “A Steady Rain.”
Tamara Kissane’s Controversial New Play Hits the Stage in Greensboro
The Durham playwright’s “Nice White Parents 2016” opens at Hyers Theatre on January 19.
The Must-See Winter Performances Coming to the Triangle
From Shakespeare to RENT, here are the performances hitting Triangle stages this winter.
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