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Surviving with Loudon and other news as PlayMakers Opens 13/14 Season
Loudon Wainwright III and image of Loudon Wainwright Jr., in PlayMakers Repertory Company’s world premiere production of SURVIVING TWIN, written & performed by Loudon Wainwright III, and directed...
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Our Super-Heroes, Now Working Magic at Manbites Dog Theater
Marcia Edmundson, Lakeisha Coffey, Thaddaeus Edwards, and Mary Guthrie as The Fathom Town Enforcers, fundraising (or not) from their submarine lair, in SPIRITS TO ENFORCE, now playing at Manbites Dog...
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Dancing Durham: ADF Opens, and Local Dancers Provide Even More Action
Zoia Cisneros in Nicola Bullock’s UNDONE.Photo: Noah Rosenblatt-Farrell. Each year it seems like a miracle, with this year being no exception–this difficult year of budget cuts and grant shrinkages....
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A New Play On An Old War: The ArtsCenter premieres commissioned work INTO THE...
Opening tonight at the Carrboro ArtsCenter: INTO THE BREACH, Ian Bowater’s new play, commissioned by the ArtsCenter for its season examining World War I. Bowater, who is English and has had a long...
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LOADED OBJECTS, at the Carrack Gallery through 10/26
Stencil for the Bull Jumping Shark tag that’s showing up on the hoardings of various high-dollar developments in Durham, perhaps as a warning. Anonymous. The Carrack Modern Art Gallery, should you have...
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Next Year in the Theater
Aaron Davidman will perform his WRESTLING JERUSALEM at PRC2, Jan 7-11. Photo: Ken Friedman. Whew. 2014 was another amazing year in Triangle theatre, but there’s little time off for the avid audience....
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The REDBIRD Flies Tonight from the ArtsCenter Stage
Two years ago, Dorrie Casey, who’s done pretty much everything else in theatre, decided her next adventure would be a festival of new plays. Add producer to her credits, please, because starting...
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RAD Gets Defiant This Weekend with BLOOD MOON
Renay Aumiller, a slender woman with a 10 megawatt smile and a head full of ideas about bodies in motion, generously took an hour out of tech week to talk to me about her new work that her...
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What a Long Wise Road It’s Been: Thanks, Jim!
The News & Observer marked Jim Wise’s upcoming retirement with a special sweet “front page.” Wise was honored at a reception, with a cake no one could bear to cut, 6/19/15 at the Durham History...
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Eiko: Rare Opportunity to See (and Hear) the Great Dance Artist
TODAY, July 2, at 5:00, Eiko Otake, the female half of the duo Eiko and Koma, frequent visitors to the American Dance Festival, will be present at a special salon at Pleiades Gallery in downtown...
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Tracks in the Sand
First, let me quickly say that this is the final week of ADF 2015, and tonight is the final night of the Footprints program (8 pm, Reynolds Theater). This is the cool program for which ADF commissions...
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The Woman in Charge
PlayMakers Repertory Company has made a brilliant choice for its new Producing Artistic Director: Vivienne Benesch. Regular PRC attendees will remember her for her delicate direction of last year’s...
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Vacation’s Over, Theatre’s in Full Swing
Area theaters are kicking the new year off right. PlayMakers Repertory Company’s PRC2 series has a very interesting one-woman show through Jan. 10, KJ Sanchez’ Highway 47. One of the play’s purposes,...
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Eiko Speaks
A fact not widely understood about dance: for it to communicate to the viewer, its silent language must be informed by clarity of thought in the maker(s). The body is brain-powered, just as the brain...
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Gonna be a hot time in D-town tonight: The Bipeds and Curtis Eller’s American...
The Bipeds in rehearsal for Stacy Wolfson’s Never, Enough, Better, Nothing, with the high-kicking Curtis Eller on banjo. Performances will be June 2-4, 2016 at The Shed, Golden Belt. Photo: Alex...
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Recommended TV: EARTHCASTER
Across the Grain, in Lenoir, NC. The documentary follows this project through to its welcome by the sculpture-loving community. Photo: courtesy Minnow Media. I’ve just had a sneak preview of a fine...
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Opening Tonight: A Youthful VIOLET
One of the lesser-known pleasures of summer around here is the theatre production which culminates the annual Summer Youth Conservatory program of PlayMakers Repertory Company. Talented stage-struck...
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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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