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27132
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NC Theatre was apprehensive last Thursday when the lead actor quit its production of Wit the day before opening, and the company had already invited Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Margaret Edson to speak after the performance. Fortunately, the company found Kate Goehring as a replacement, resulting in a strong performance.
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The Women’s Theatre Festival produced North Carolina’s first festival devoted to a full spectrum of female stage artists, from playwrights to technicians. The company made many important achievements in establishing professional links with regional theaters, and in addressing gender equity in the theater.
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28957
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The inherently political nature of theater is exposed, with varying success, in The God Game and Zuccoti Park, two productions featured in Raleigh. The God Game debates an uncomfortable and paradoxical reality of present-day American politics. Zuccoti Park is a musical about the historic Occupy Wall Street demonstrations.
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28059
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At the University of North Carolina, the Process Series helps creators develop new works. Directed by Joseph Megel, the series helps artists performing new works on stage. The series helps mentor and critique the works, offering feedback to the artists. All six works that received help from the series and Megel will be performed in North Carolina.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 26 Issue 44, November 2009,
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27143
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Four prominent university-affiliated series are key ambassadors from North Carolina to the world, and how they use their platforms is especially important after the discriminatory House Bill 2. Presenters and artists drive change, whether they boycott the state or alter their shows to speak to it.
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Indy Week
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 33 Issue 19, May 2016,
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28797
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Common Ground Theatre in Durham opened in 2005 to serve itinerant artists and companies who cannot afford to buy a place to stage their works. Common Ground recently closed and other independent theaters may be lost as well. Artists are now trying to understand what causes these venues to lose viability.
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Woods discusses the best and the worst of the American Dance Festival of 2008.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 25 Issue 30, July 2008,
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27048
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There were changes aplenty this year, as artists came and went and innovated when faced with challenges old and new. New groups and artists flourished in the Triangle, and local artists made waves in New York productions. Triangle theaters premiered plays addressing race, leadership changed at PlayMakers Repertory Company, and Deep Dish Theater Company closed.
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The first ever CHAT Festival was held on UNC-Chapel Hill’s campus. The title stands for Collaborations: Humanities, Arts, and Technology. The gather features four full days of performances, hands-on workshops, interactive software exhibits, and panel discussions with nationally recognized designers, entrepreneurs, artists, and scholars. This group uses, develops, and markets the technology on display at the festival.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 27 Issue 7, February 2010,
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27192
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Durham’s Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern and Raleigh’s Bare Theatre are two of the region’s oldest independent theaters. Neither group has its own permanent space for rehearsals and performances. As expenses become more difficult, they must rethink the way they structure their fundraising and the relationships they build with their audiences and the larger community.
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The original budget approved by the House Appropriations subcommittee called for $1.45 million in cuts to the arts. In the late hours of the House session, this amount was amended to $597,000. The Department of Cultural Resources will take the biggest hit, $500,000 and will have to decide where these cuts will be administered.
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Durham’s Ward Theatre Company is now staging the debut production, Jacuzzi, a psychological thriller by the New York playwright collective The Debate Society. Founded by Wendy Ward, the company teaches acting techniques of Sanford Meisner, which stress interaction among actors in the present moment.
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Two plays currently performed in Raleigh tackle the fragility of history and show that we may lose memories of major events if we do not frequently remind ourselves of them. The Movement: 50 Years of Love and Struggle, by Ron Jones', brings to life the last fifty years in civil rights and African American culture. Oh What a Lovely War tackles the responses of British culture to World War I.
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Indy Week
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 32 Issue 20, May 2015,
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Emil Kang and the Carolina Performing Arts are producing Sacred/Secular: A Sufi Journey. This year-long festival highlights the differences in the Islamic faith and explores the experience of living with a Muslim identity in the modern world. Performances include concerts, staged readings, plays, dance, and other media formats throughout the Triangle Area starting Friday September 29th through April 12th.
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Paperhand Puppet Intervention in downtown Saxapahaw has a new show called The Beautiful Beast, which opens at Chapel Hill’s Forest Theatre this weekend. The show draws on the imaginary beasts of childhood, and casts light on the role of monsters in learning and culture.
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