From “A Case for the Existence of God” and “Misery” to “Funny Girl ” and “100% the Triangle.”
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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.
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A Guide to Second Stage Productions at Burning Coal
Productions of “The Face of Emmett Till,” “OR,” and “Ruby” run this June.
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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.”
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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.”
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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?”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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New Production ‘The Story of Us’ Draws on the Oral Histories of UNC-Chapel Hill LGBTQ+ Alumni
The project is the culmination of three years’ work: the first phase in documenting the oral histories of more than 50 LGBTQ+ people who attended UNC from the 1950s through the 2010s.