Tag: Raleigh
THROUGH 2/16: When We Were Queens at NCMA
Posted by Alana Bleimann | Feb 14, 2024 | Articles, Dance, Feature, Music, Music Review, Perfomance Art, Reviews | 0
NC Master Chorale: Bewitched
by CVNC | Oct 9, 2024 | Choral Music, Feature, Holiday Concert, Music, Previews, Vocal Music | 0
RALEIGH, NC – Back by popular demand, this enchanting Halloween-themed program offers fun for the whole family. Forty costumed singers perform captivating, creepy choral compositions. This program runs the gamut from works...
Read MoreNew works delight at Raleigh Fringe Festival
by Byron Woods | Sep 28, 2024 | Reviews, Theatre | 0
An eclectic array of performances came to Raleigh with the Raleigh Fringe Festival last week.
Read MoreThe NCMA and NC Opera Present “Opera in the Park”
RALEIGH, NC – The North Carolina Museum of Art is continuously bringing its members, and curious North Carolina residents coming for a one-off production, fresh and energizing new stage productions. Their outdoor...
Read MoreRevisiting Old Hollywood with By the Way, Meet Vera Stark at Theatre in the Park
by Byron Woods | Sep 2, 2024 | Reviews, Theatre | 0
RALEIGH, NC – The quotation is famous; the source, less so. “We all know that Art is not truth,” Picasso wrote in a letter to Mexican artist, writer and exhibitor Marius de Zayas. “Art is a lie that makes...
Read MoreNew Company’s First Production Gives Modern Scourge a Very Human Face: Vixen Theatre’s A KID LIKE JAKE
by Byron Woods | Aug 31, 2024 | Feature, Reviews, Theatre | 0
RALEIGH, NC – A good friend of mine entered second grade this week. While babysitting for the family earlier in the pandemic, I’d noticed their already iconoclastic tastes in fashion: tie-died t-shirt and dungarees...
Read MoreTHROUGH 9/15 – Raleigh Little Theatre Comes Out Of Its Shell With Something Rotten!
by Alana Bleimann | Aug 27, 2024 | Reviews, Theatre | 0
RALEIGH, NC – Why did the egg regret being in an omelet? It wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. Raleigh Little Theatre’s Something Rotten! was far from rotten – it was fresh, organic, and new. Karey and...
Read MoreThrough 6/1: A Family of Men Trembles as Mom Finally Comes into Her Own in Honest Pint’s Comedy “Grand Horizons”
by Byron Woods | May 25, 2024 | Reviews, Theatre | 0
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.
Read MoreA Tonic for the Troops on a Needed Night Off: ASBX Live’s “Home Sweet Home” at Theatre Raleigh
by Byron Woods | Feb 29, 2024 | Reviews, Theatre | 0
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.
Read MoreDowntown Raleigh Gets New Art Gallery Showcasing Works by Artists with Disabilities Year Round
by Andrea Luke | Feb 22, 2024 | Articles, Exhibition, Feature, News, Previews, Public Art, Visual Art | 0
RALEIGH, NC – Non-profit group Arts Access North Carolina will host a grand opening of its new art...
Read MoreBryan, Barber, and Beethoven With the North Carolina Symphony
by Emmeline MacMillan | Feb 18, 2024 | Articles, Instrumental Ensemble, Music, Orchestral Music, Reviews | 0
RALEIGH, NC – “How many of you have never seen Beethoven 5 performed live?”...
Read MoreTHROUGH 2/25: Polling Ghosts, and Those About to Be: “Skeleton Crew” at The Justice Theater Project
by Byron Woods | Feb 14, 2024 | Theatre | 0
RALEIGH, NC – Automotive assembly line workers in Detroit qualified as a new endangered species in...
Read MoreTHROUGH 2/16: When We Were Queens at NCMA
by Alana Bleimann | Feb 14, 2024 | Articles, Dance, Feature, Music, Music Review, Perfomance Art, Reviews | 0
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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