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An Unprecedented Opportunity, Coming Up at Carolina Performing Arts
I rarely write previews, because–you don’t really know ahead of time. But sometimes the risk of an event turning out not so well is negligible, and the odds of it being astounding are very good....
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“One Woman Plus a Typewriter Equals a Movement:” Pauli Murray Still Inspires
Pauli Murray’s immortal spirit is reembodied in TO BUY THE SUN, a remarkably dramatic piece of documentary theatre that played in Chapel Hill and Durham in late 2016, in a new and improved version of...
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Get it While the Getting is Good
One of the shadow devices intricately carved from water buffalo leather by artist Eko Nugroho for his production “In the Name of Semelah” performed by Wayang Bocor theatre company, at Carolina...
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Clear as Glass (Philip, 80 proof)
Philip Glass. The protean composer will be at UNC-Chapel Hill for several days during the Glass at 80 festival organized by CPA. Photo: Raymond Meier. Before I tell you about the two wonderful...
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Will Grossman Memorial Photography Show Opens April 8 at Through This Lens
Nap Time, by John Hall, in the Will Grossman Memorial Photo Competition, opening at Through This Lens Gallery on April 8, 2017. Image courtesy of the gallery. The fifth Triangle-wide photography...
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Orbiting in the Outer Reaches
Carley McCready in the cosmic static. Rehearsal photo courtesy of Rabble and Twine. I was thrilled to received a press release from DIDA, Durham Independent Dance Artists, giving information on a new...
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ADF: Coming Up June 23-27
Lucas Melfi and Rachael Mehaffey in an earlier performance of Natalie Marrone’s Thresh, which will be the opening act in Reynolds June 23-24. Photo: Alec Himwich. The American Dance Festival...
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ADF: Bill T. Jones’ TRILOGY, part 1 (again)
The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company performing Jones’ Analogy/Dora: Tramontane in the ADF presentation in the DPAC, July 27, 2017. Photo: Ben McKeown. Two years ago, Bill T. Jones brought the first...
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Turn, turn, turn
And now the season is September, and “the days dwindle down.” It’s a fresh theater season–but 2017-2018 will be imbued with the sense of an ending. Manbites Dog Theater–that bold upstart, that...
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Big Dog Shows Up On Main Street: Manbites Dog Theater, in the beginning
The Dog Arrives. Fall, 1987, in the former shoe store at 343 West Main Street, Durham, NC. From left: Barbara Dickinson, Jeff Storer, Patricia Esperon, and Connie Watkins, rehearsing Manbites Dog...
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