EMF’s Symphonic Triptych Overflows with Virtuosity and Enthusiasm
GREENSBORO, NC – You could almost hear the consternation behind the scenes as Gerard Schwarz and the Eastern Music Festival deliberated over what to call their most recent Saturday evening concert, the penultimate fourth of five offerings in this season's Joseph M....
Through 7/28: Opera Wilmington Brings Tosca Majestically to Life
WILMINGTON, NC – Being able to watch an Italian opera first staged in 1900 live in coastal North Carolina in 2024 is something of a miracle when you really stop and think about it. This is an art form that has managed to survive for hundreds of years, always finding...
Through 7/20: Terpsicorps’ Before the Scream Makes Art About Art and Scorches the Stage with Magical Movement
WINSTON-SALEM, NC – Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance's international cast blazed onto the stage of Hanesbrands Theatre July 18 with all the energy of a house on fire. Artistic Director and UNC School of the Arts alumna Heather Maloy chose to change the order of the...
American Dance Festival Students Stun In Footprints
DURHAM, NC – Every year, dozens of pre-professional dancers flock to Durham, NC for the American Dance Festival. For the summer months, they have the unique opportunity to study and train under some of the modern dance world's finest choreographers and teachers. They...
THROUGH 7/28: Young Frankenstein Delivers Excess, Glitz, and Ecstatic Filth at Matthews Playhouse
MATTHEWS, NC - Just turned 98, Mel Brooks has overachieved in every way possible, including longevity. Yes, he wrote the music and lyrics in adapting his own Oscar-winning script, The Producers, into a Broadway musical. If that 2001 megahit was the most prodigious and...
MADE IN NC: Stacy Wolfson & Curtis Eller, Iyun Ashani Harrison, Dom-Sebastian Alexis, Gavin Stewart & Vanessa Owen
Striking modern and contemporary dance couldn’t be made in North Carolina without visionary teachers and mentors to nurture the choreographers who make them and train the dancers who enact their work. This home truth was underscored in a moving ceremony Sunday night in Reynolds Industries Theater, as American Dance Festival director Jodee Nimerichter dedicated the festival’s 2024 season to longtime Triangle-based dance teachers Annie Dwyer and Gene Medler, moments before the start of “Made in NC,” the festival’s second annual showcase of North Carolina choreographers.
Les Ballet Afrik Brings “Realness” To Durham
DURHAM, NC – Never underestimate the power that a sparkly gown and a disco ball hold. That's what ballroom culture go-ers would tell you in New York City in the 1970s. I'm now a true believer after Les Ballet Afrik closed Pride Month with a heart-filled and moving...
Through July 27: Eastern Chamber Players Kick Off the 2024 Eastern Music Festival
GREENSBORO, NC – The Eastern Music Festival, housed on the Guilford College campus in Greensboro, NC, kicked off its 63rd season with an evening of chamber music Tuesday night. Two works from the mainstream 19th century Classical-Romantic repertoire (Beethoven and...
Kaleidoscope of Senses with Winston-Salem Symphony Unbound
WINSTON-SALEM, NC – Separated into three groups and led by the musical programming of the Winston-Salem Symphony, the green, pink, and blue groups ventured through each floor of the Kaleideum for a multisensory artistic experience. A mashup of the words "kaleidoscope"...
Pavel Nersessian’s Piano Fireworks at ECU Piano Festival
GREENVILLE, NC – The East Carolina Piano Festival 2024 brought to the stage the incredible Pavel Nersessian, piano, in a performance of an all-Chopin program. The Piano Festival brings together pre-college (grade 6-12) & college students (through age 26) to work...