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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 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 2/16: 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.
Read MoreTHROUGH 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...
Read MoreNC Opera’s Inventive “Barber of Seville” a Feast for Ears and Eyes
It’s been nearly eight years since North Carolina Opera last presented The Barber of...
Read MoreThrough 2/11: Pieces (Still) Missing in Stories of Black Men: Burning Coal Theatre’s ‘HYMN’
by Byron Woods | Feb 2, 2024 | Articles, Reviews, Theatre | 0
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...
Read MoreTriangle Theatre and Dance 2023: The Best of What We Saw
by Byron Woods | Dec 31, 2023 | Articles, Dance, Dance Theatre, Feature, Musical Theatre, News, Theatre | 0
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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