CHARLOTTE, NC – June is Pride month, a time dedicated to the celebration of the LGBTQ+ community while recognizing its activist roots, particularly in the Stonewall Uprising of 1969. In the midst of ever-present struggles for...
Read MoreThe MozART Group invaded historic Thalian Hall with musical humor and craziness. This group is a string quartet of highly professional players who decided to put some insanity into classical music, “despite the sober...
Read MoreGalumpha: I Galumph, You Galumph, We All Galumph Together
Finishing the ArtSparks series at Carrboro’s ArtsCenter, New-York-based comedy dance troupe Galumpha presented a delightful evening of inventive performing that entertained children and adults alike. Established in 2002,...
Read MoreDefending the Caveman: An Indefensible Retread of Ancient Stereotypes
Durham’s historic Carolina Theatre scored a major coup when it booked a double performance of Defending the Caveman. Comedian and actor Rob Becker took three years to write this play (actually, a one-man stand-up comedy...
Read MoreOver the past few years, Mike Birbiglia’s voice has become a familiar one, thanks to occasional appearances on This American Life, where his slightly woebegone cadences accompany stories that are both uniquely funny and...
Read MoreEver been beleaguered by the holidays, when hyped expectations of happiness and good will meet the painful realities of a failed relationship in a head-on collision? Are you amused by the plethora of idiots out there, or...
Read MoreCompany Carolina, a student theatre organization at UNC Chapel Hill, staged a production of The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged). The premise of the show is that three guys act as entertainers and hosts of their own...
Read MoreThe house was packed Friday evening for the second installment of the Transactors Improv Company’s new serial, The Professors, at the Common Ground Theatre in Durham. The serial is designed to do for the City University...
Read MoreAnyone who has enjoyed the rare privilege of seeing a performance of Mark Twain Tonight! starring its originator has no doubt considered that, if Sam Clemens didn’t talk exactly like Hal Holbrook, he should have. With...
Read MoreMitch Albom’s show-biz-sin-and-redemption parable And the Winner Is…, currently on view at the Gaddy-Goodwin Teaching Theatre in a brisk co-production by Actors Comedy Lab and Raleigh Little Theatre, has been...
Read MoreSomeone has said Amy Sedaris is like an inside joke: if you get it, you’re cool. If you don’t, you’re not. There were representatives of both of those groups at Amy Sedaris’s performance at Farthing...
Read MoreRalph Harris is a comedian who has competed with distinction on Last Comic Standing. As an actor, his résumé lists TV credits stretching back to Seinfeld and film appearances that include Dreamgirls. So he is...
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