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BWW Review: STEEL MAGNOLIAS at Theatre Raleigh

BWW Review: STEEL MAGNOLIAS at Theatre Raleigh

by Taryn Oesch — July 29, 2016

What better way to spend a hot summer night than seeing "Steel Magnolias" at Theatre Raleigh's Hot Summer Nights? Theatre Raleigh's summer series is beginning to wind down, but it's definitely not cooling off.

BWW Review: 2016 Triangle Rising Star Awards

BWW Review: 2016 Triangle Rising Star Awards

by Jeffrey Kare — June 7, 2016

The Triangle Rising Star Awards is a regional competition that brings together high school musical theater students from Central and Eastern North Carolina to perform and compete for the chance to represent the Triangle in The National High School Musical Theater Awards in New York City every summer

BWW Review: 42ND STREET National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center

BWW Review: 42ND STREET National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center

by Jeffrey Kare — May 4, 2016

Based on Bradford Ropes' 1932 novel as well as Busby Berkeley's 1933 film musical adaptation of the same name, 42nd Street tells the story of famed dictatorial Great White Way director Julian Marsh to mount a successful stage production of a musical extravaganza at the height of the Great Depression

BWW Review: North Carolina Theatre's WIT

BWW Review: North Carolina Theatre's WIT

by Jeffrey Kare — May 2, 2016

Wit is a 90 minute one act play by Margaret Edson that tells the story of Vivian Bearing, a renowned English professor who has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.

BWW Review: CABARET National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center

BWW Review: CABARET National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center

by Jeffrey Kare — April 20, 2016

Based on John Van Druten's play I Am a Camera which was adapted from Christopher Isherwood's short story Goodbye to Berlin, Cabaret is based in the nightlife at the seedy Kit Kat Klub as the Nazis were rising to power in Berlin back in 1931.

BWW Review: North Carolina Theatre's GREASE

BWW Review: North Carolina Theatre's GREASE

by Jeffrey Kare — February 10, 2016

Set in 1959, Grease tells the story of ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of peer pressure, politics, personal core values, and love in their senior year of high school.

BWW Review: THE BOOK OF MORMON National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center

BWW Review: THE BOOK OF MORMON National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center

by Jeffrey Kare — December 31, 2015

The Book of Mormon is an original musical that tells the story of two young Mormon missionaries who are sent to a remote village in Uganda, where they try to share one of their scriptures, The Book of Mormon (hence the title), but have trouble connecting with the locals who are more worried about wa

BWW Review: North Carolina Theatre Conservatory's CRAZY FOR YOU

BWW Review: North Carolina Theatre Conservatory's CRAZY FOR YOU

by Jeffrey Kare — August 17, 2015

Just as another Gershwin-based musical An American in Paris is currently playing big on Broadway, the triangle area was recently treated to a performance of the 1992 Tony-Winning Best Musical Crazy for You presented by the North Carolina Theatre Conservatory Master Summer Theatre Arts School.

BWW Reviews: NEWSIES National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center

BWW Reviews: NEWSIES National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center

by Jeffrey Karasarides — June 4, 2015

Based on the 1992 Disney film of the same name, which in turn was inspired by the real-life newsboys strike of 1899 in New York City, Newsies tells the captivating story of a band of underdogs who become unlikely heroes when they stand up to the most powerful men in New York.

BWW Reviews: North Carolina Theatre's NEXT TO NORMAL

BWW Reviews: North Carolina Theatre's NEXT TO NORMAL

by Jeffrey Kare — May 3, 2015

Next to Normal is an original musical by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey that tells the story of a mother who struggles with worsening bipolar disorder and the effect that her illness and the attempts to alleviate it have on her family.

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