Author: Byron Woods

MADE IN NC: Stacy Wolfson & Curtis Eller, Iyun Ashani Harrison, Dom-Sebastian Alexis, Gavin Stewart & Vanessa Owen

MADE IN NC: Stacy Wolfson & Curtis Eller, Iyun Ashani Harrison, Dom-Sebastian Alexis, Gavin Stewart & Vanessa Owen

Posted by | Jul 13, 2024 | , ,

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.

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Through 6/1: A Family of Men Trembles as Mom Finally Comes into Her Own in Honest Pint’s Comedy “Grand Horizons”

Through 6/1: A Family of Men Trembles as Mom Finally Comes into Her Own in Honest Pint’s Comedy “Grand Horizons”

Posted by | May 25, 2024 | ,

In playwright Bess Wohl’s insightful dramatic family comedy, which made the short list for the 2020 Tony Awards, unhappy matriarch Nancy French (Lenore Field) has abruptly decided to pull the plug on her 50-year marriage. 

Her taciturn, stick-in-the-mud husband, Bill (Paul Newell), is okay with the move. 

The kids? Not so much, to say the very least.

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Through 4/21: Midsummer magic – mostly: Burning Coal Theatre’s A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC

Through 4/21: Midsummer magic – mostly: Burning Coal Theatre’s A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC

Posted by | Apr 13, 2024 | ,

The romantic conceit dates back before Ingmar Bergman’s 1955 classic, Smiles of a Summer Night, and well before Shakespeare: when humans have gotten themselves stuck in the worst partnerships possible (or, even worse, in abject celibacy), the magic of a midsummer’s night can sort everything out, bring the right pairs together in spite of themselves and restore harmonic community, dyad by dyad.

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