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BWW Review: 2016 Triangle Rising Star Awards
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: IF/THEN National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center
If/Then is an original musical that tells the story of Elizabeth Vaughan, a 40-year-old woman who moves back to New York City seeking a fresh start to her life. The musical depicts two different paths of where Elizabeth's life could take her....
BWW Review: 42ND STREET National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center
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
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. During the course of her illness, Vivian comes to reassess her life and her work with a profundity and humor that are transforma...
BWW Review: CABARET National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center
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. The action is overseen by a Master of Ceremonies with the ...
BWW Review: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center
MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center...
BWW Review: THE LION KING National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center
Based on the 1994 Disney animated film of the same name, The Lion King tells the story of Simba, a young lion who is supposed to succeed his father Mufasa, as King of Pride Rock. But when Simba's Uncle Scar kills Mufasa, Simba runs away from home after being tricked into thinking that he was respons...
BWW Review: Cary Arts Center's FORBIDDEN BROADWAY
For one night only, the Cary Arts Center presented a production of Gerard Alessandrini's hit off-Broadway musical revue Forbidden Broadway. In the show, a quartet of performers sing rewritten parodies of classic musical theatre songs from classics such as Annie, Aspects of Love, Beauty & the Beast, ...
BWW Review: North Carolina Theatre's GREASE
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: MATILDA National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center
MATILDA National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center...
BWW Review: RAGTIME National Tour at North Carolina Theatre
RAGTIME National Tour at North Carolina Theatre...
BWW Review: THE BOOK OF MORMON National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center
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: THE SOUND OF MUSIC National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center
THE SOUND OF MUSIC at Durham Performing Arts Center...
BWW Review: THE ILLUSIONISTS National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center
THE ILLUSIONISTS National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center...
BWW Review: North Carolina Theatre's INTO THE WOODS
North Carolina Theatre's INTO THE WOODS...
BWW Review: A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE & MURDER National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center
A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE & MURDER National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center...
BWW Review: BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center
BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center...
BWW Review: Raleigh Little Theatre's MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT
Lovingly ripped off from the 1975 classic film Monty Python & the Holy Grail, Spamalot is a highly irreverent spoof of the quest of King Arthur and and his Knights of the roundtable....
BWW Review: North Carolina Theatre Conservatory's CRAZY FOR YOU
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: North Carolina Theatre's BUDDY - THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY
Set before 'the day the music died,' Buddy-The Buddy Holly Story tells the true story of rock star Buddy Holly's meteoric rise to fame in the late 1950s-before his life was cut short, along with Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson, in a 1959 plane crash....
BWW Reviews: NEWSIES National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center
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: PIPPIN National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center
Loosely based on the fictitious life of Pippin the Hunchback, this musical tells the story of the young prince Pippin, Heir to the Frankish throne, who is in search of the secret to true happiness and fulfillment. He seeks it in the glories of the battlefield, the temptations of the flesh and the in...
BWW Reviews: North Carolina Theatre's NEXT TO NORMAL
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. The musical also addresses such issues as grieving a loss, suicide, d...
BWW Reviews: JERSEY BOYS National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center
Set in the 1960's, Jersey Boys is presented in a documentary-style format that dramatizes the formation, success and eventual breakup of The Four Seasons. The musical is structured as four 'seasons', where each member of the group narrates giving their own perspective on the story....
BWW Reviews: KINKY BOOTS National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center
Based on the 2005 British independent film of the same name which was inspired by a true story, this musical tells the story of Charlie Price, who inherits a shoe factory from his father. To save the business, Charlie forms an unlikely partnership with cabaret performer and drag queen, Lola. With Lo...
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Wicked Durham Performing Arts Center (3/31-4/18) |
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Waitress DPAC (2/05-2/07) |
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Hadestown (Non-Equity) Durham Performing Arts Center (3/05-3/07) |
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Hadestown DPAC (3/05-3/07) |
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Gospel R and B Comedy Show Hilton Garden Inn Raleigh /Crabtree Valley (7/10-7/10) |
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Almost Like A Dance Carolina Theater Workshop (6/26-6/27) |
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C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts (9/12-9/13) |
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Danger! Burning Coal Theatre Company (6/12-6/12) |
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Death Becomes Her DPAC (11/10-11/15) |
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