Category: Feature
Facing Problems, On Stage and Off: MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS and DANCE NATION
Above: Mr. Ratchett (Jim Roof) and Hercule Poirot (Jeffrey Blair Cornell) face off in MURDER ON...
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Take a Trip with NC Brass Band in “Brass Around the World”
This preview has been provided as part of a publicity exchange between CVNC and the NC Brass Band....
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Rotating Dynamic Duos to Perform at ECU’s Four Seasons “Muses & Inspirations”
This preview has been provided as part of a publicity exchange between CVNC and East Carolina...
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Downtown Raleigh Gets New Art Gallery Showcasing Works by Artists with Disabilities Year Round
RALEIGH, NC – Non-profit group Arts Access North Carolina will host a grand opening of its new art...
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THROUGH 2/17: The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson Brings a Neglected Pioneer and Her Seminal Opera Company Back Into the Spotlight
CHARLOTTE, NC – Commissioned by the Glimmerglass Festival and premiered there during the summer of...
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THROUGH 2/16: When We Were Queens at NCMA
When We Were Queens is a stunningly beautiful, yet uncomfortable exploration of the human body – its ancestry, its ability to hold and possess new memory, and its need for connection and affirmation.
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THROUGH 2/18: Carolina Ballet’s Gershwin Spectacular Dazzles With “Rhapsody In Blue”
If you’ve ever pleaded for Carolina Ballet to begin taking risks with their guest...
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Majesty and Mastery for Yusuf Salim – His Jazz Tradition, Compositions, and Community Impact Celebrated
A jazz smorgasbord double concert tribute to Brother Yusuf Salim as called by many, a man who through his sheer humanity and mastery of music, impacted and empowered communities and individuals.
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“To Take Shape and Meaning” Opens March 2nd at the North Carolina Art Museum
RALEIGH, NC – The North Carolina Art Museum’s newest exhibit opens March 2nd, making...
Read MoreThrough 1/21: Roasting Romance (and Theater on a Shoestring): South Stream Production’s TWELFTH NIGHT
Twelfth Night, one of the region’s most overproduced and yet under imagined Shakespearean titles, had been ripe for a roasting for some time now. So when, in the opening moments of South Stream Productions’...
Read MoreGreensboro Symphony Orchestra: Season of the Seven; Leslie Dunner, conductor, Gina Perregrino, mezzo-soprano
Leslie Dunner, the third conductor seeking the music director position for the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, led a concert that careened wildly between styles Saturday night. All four compositions were written in the 20th century by composers of different countries: the United States, Germany, Latvia, and Italy.
Maestro Dunner is currently conductor of the Interlochen Arts Academy as well as interim artistic director of the South Shore Opera Company (Chicago). He is also the first American prize-winner of the Toscanini International Conducting Competition. The soloist for the evening, mezzo-soprano Gina Perregrino, is primarily known for her opera performances with the opera companies of Atlanta, Minnesota, St. Louis, Santa Fe, and more.
The evening opened with “Three Dance Episodes” from On the Town (1944) by Leonard Bernstein (US, 1918-90). The work began as a Jerome Robbins ballet (Fancy Free), reworked to become the Broadway musical, and eventually became a motion picture in 1949. The “Three Dance Episodes” is derived from the musical.
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Triangle Theatre and Dance 2023: The Best of What We Saw
Since end-of-year wrap-ups inevitably use a lot of figures, let’s start with the most improbable one of all: 338, for the number of theater and dance productions staged in North Carolina’s Triangle region during 2023. For those counting, it was an all-time high in terms of yearly output for the area, a remarkable comeback for the two art forms that had been most threatened during the first three years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
No, we couldn’t see them all. The curated lists here of superlatives come from the one-hundred shows we did view from the region’s major companies and selected up-and-comers through the year.
The only way a region produces 338 different shows is with a large pool of artists and an even more extensive community of support. Those whose job it is to fret over even good news wondered at year’s-end how sustainable such a level of output could be. We’ll get an answer to that question in the coming year.
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