Category: Theatre
Intriguing Worldbuilding, Incomplete: Stone Soup Theatre’s “R&J” at Center Theater Company
CARRBORO, NC – Worldbuilding isn’t just an esoteric activity limited to the constructs of virtual reality and speculative fiction; it’s a fundamental part of the theatrical enterprise. If drama at its essence...
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Through 4/21: Midsummer magic – mostly: Burning Coal Theatre’s A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
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.
Read MoreThrough 4/14: Spirit Gum’s “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” Delivers Mystery, Whimsy, and Profound Fun
WINSTON-SALEM, NC – It’s so mundane as to be profoundly comical: an annoying cell phone rings incessantly while you are trying to enjoy your soup, and its owner can’t even be bothered to answer it. That’s...
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THROUGH 4/14: “Ada and the Engine” at NC State’s University Theatre
RALEIGH, NC – Students skipped and wandered around NC State University, buzzing with...
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Through 4/14: NC Black Rep’s “Coconut Cake” Serves Up a Deliciously Textured, Emotional Performance
WINSTON-SALEM, NC – The North Carolina Black Repertory Company (N.C. Black Rep) created the...
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Through 3/31: 69-Year-Old Script Asks How Long Is Now? “Trouble in Mind” at Raleigh Little Theatre
Photo Credit: Doug Wood Aya Wallace as Mayer in RLT’s “Trouble in Mind” ...
Read MoreThrough 3/17: Charlie Lovett’s “Escaping Dreamland” Reveals Hopes, Dreams, and Disasters of “Real People” in the Gilded Age
Winston-Salem, N.C. – The splendid excesses of the Gilded Age in New York City and a shattering series of world-altering disasters provide the backdrop for Charlie Lovett’s heartfelt tale of relationship, creativity,...
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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...
Read MoreA Tonic for the Troops on a Needed Night Off: ASBX Live’s “Home Sweet Home” at Theatre Raleigh
It’s hard not to conclude that ASBX Live gave the playwrights a living theatrical sketchpad, one on which to work out a series of interesting opening moves with imaginative themes that we’d strongly encourage both to pursue. Performers who were clearly having a good time got a good workout in a brief project where they got to focus only on vocal acting. And a crowd of theatricals still reeling from the week’s news got a chance to unwind in a night of fellowship, one spangled with wit and savvy, easy-stakes showmanship: a three-way win, in short.
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THROUGH 2/25: Polling Ghosts, and Those About to Be: “Skeleton Crew” at The Justice Theater Project
RALEIGH, NC – Automotive assembly line workers in Detroit qualified as a new endangered species in...
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THROUGH 2/24: Three Bone Theatre Brings Morriseau’s Challenging and Mesmerizing “Confederates” to Charlotte
CHARLOTTE, NC – As Charlotte theatre companies continue to find ways to engage their audiences...
Read MoreThrough 2/11: Pieces (Still) Missing in Stories of Black Men: Burning Coal Theatre’s ‘HYMN’
As Benny, the disaffected half-brother in Burning Coal Theatre Company’s production of Hymn might put it, if theatre itself is a jigsaw puzzle – a literal “mess of images that don’t make sense until you connect...
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