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BWW Reviews: CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Flies Into Raleigh
Prepare for takeoff - the national touring company of Catch Me if You Can is currently playing at the NC Theatre, in the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium at the Progress Energy Center for Performing arts in downtown Raleigh. Despite a few minutes fixing a technical snafu during opening night, the show i...
BWW Reviews: JERSEY BOYS Wows Durham
Their songs are some of the most iconic in rock and roll history, but their story is largely unknown. Currently showing at the Durham Performing Arts Center, Jersey Boys is the Tony Award winning story of the rise of The Four Seasons. The musical has been playing on Broadway since 2005 and has cap...
BWW Reviews: PlayMakers Rep's World Premiere Adaptation of IMAGINARY INVALID
PlayMakers Repertory Company in Chapel Hill has commissioned a world-premiere adaptation of Imaginary Invalid, the final play written by Moliere. The story follows Argan, a hopeless hypochondriac, as he surrounds himself with people who will cater to his ridiculous medical delusions of chronic il...
BWW Reviews: Deep Dish's SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER
No one writes a finely-crafted comedy like the British playwrights of the Restoration and 18th Century. Oliver Goldsmith's 1773 She Stoops to Conquer, the current production at Chapel Hill's Deep Dish Theater Company, is certainly no exception. It is the perfect balance of deception and misunderst...
BWW Reviews: Raleigh Little Theatre's THE 39 STEPS is a Comedic Take on a Hitchcock Classic
Calling all Hitchcock fans - the comedic stage adaptation of The 39 Steps is the current production at the Raleigh Little Theatre. For everyone from those who know every Hitchcock movie inside and out to casual fans, there's something to enjoy....
BWW Reviews: NC Theatre's LEGALLY BLONDE Charms Raleigh
Part of the latest group of movies-turned-Broadway-musicals is Legally Blonde, which is now at the North Carolina Theatre, in the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium of the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts....
BWW Reviews: SOUVENIR Brings Big Heart and Bigger Laughs to Theatre Raleigh
Souvenir is, in some ways, unassuming and small, but in the ways that count, it is big....
BWW Reviews: WAR HORSE Delights as it Gallops into Durham
The 2011 Tony Award Winning Best Play War Horse is now touring the nation, and is in Durham this week. The play, based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo, follows a young man named Albert as he enlists in the British army during World War I to find his beloved horse Joey, who was sold to the army by ...
BWW Reviews: RED is a Brushstroke of Genius at PlayMakers Repertory Company
There's something magical happening on stage at PlayMakers Repertory Company in Chapel Hill. Their production of John Logan's Red is one which you will not want to miss! The play, which won the Tony Award for best play in 2010, tells the story of painter Mark Rothko and his assistant, Ken. Over t...
BWW Reviews: NEXT TO NORMAL Shows Promise at Theatre in the Park
Despite some instances of singing upstage and offstage, the direction was good, and the cast members certainly tackled the intense vocal demands of the show....
BWW Reviews: BRIGADOON is Enchanting at Raleigh's Burning Coal Theatre
Right in the heart of downtown Raleigh, there is a magical town popping up, thanks to Burning Coal Theatre Company's current production of Brigadoon. Their small space comes to life as the enchanted Scottish village in this classic 1947 Lerner and Loewe musical....
BWW Reviews: ROCKY HORROR Gets Audiences Dancing and Shouting at Raleigh Little Theatre
Rocky Horror is so much more than just a musical. It's an experience....
BWW Reviews: Hot Summer Nights | Theatre Raleigh's AVENUE Q is a Hilarious Hit
Did you ever wonder what would have happened if Sesame Street grew up with us and continued teaching us important life lessons even as adults? Wonder no more -Avenue Q has made its way to downtown Raleigh with Hot Summer Nights | Theatre Raleigh....
BWW Reviews: RACE Gets Audiences Talking at Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy
Marking the first time that actor/director Lauren Kennedy has directed her Tony-nominated husband Alan Campbell in a play, Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy in downtown Raleigh is currently featuring Race, a play by contemporary American playwright David Mamet. Race is the third show of the season, ...
BWW Reviews: Bianca Marroquin and Cast Razzle Dazzle Durham Audiences in CHICAGO
Tuesday night at DPAC was a good news/bad news situation. The bad news: the much-publicized Christie Brinkley was not able to perform her role of Roxie Hart in Chicago, due to illness. The good news: Bianca Marroquin was flown in from NYC, right from the Broadway production of Chicago to fill in f...
BWW Reviews: OLIVER! Lights Up NC Theatre
NC Theatre is keeping kids busy this summer by putting the best and the brightest young performers, from the Triangle area and beyond, center stage in their current production of Oliver! The show, based on the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist, follows young orphan Oliver on a journey from the wor...
BWW Reviews: Tap the Night Away with DAMES AT SEA at Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy
Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy, right in downtown Raleigh, is making the most of their small space by taking on the ambitious project of staging Dames at Sea, the musical which is most known for launching the career of Bernadette Peters in the late 1960s. Though the space is intimate, the show is...
BWW Reviews: Hilarity Flies into Raleigh with BOEING BOEING by Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy
I have a theory when it comes to the theater. That theory states that the number of doors on a set is directly correlated to the hilarity which will ensue onstage. There are 6 doors on stage at Boeing Boeing at Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy - 7 if you count the big double-doors as two separate ...
BWW Reviews: Theatre in the Park's CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF Brings Deep South to Raleigh
Kick off your summer down south in the Mississippi delta with Theatre in the Park's current production of the seminal American play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof....
BWW Reviews: WEST SIDE STORY Heats Up Durham
Everybody knows West Side Story. Even if you have never seen the show before, even if you haven't seen the movie, you know West Side Story. The iconic show is so enmeshed in American culture that it is inescapable. For good reason, I might add. West Side Story is landmark theater, marking the ge...
BWW Reviews: Manbites Dog Theater Does a Lot With a Little in IN ON IT
Two actors, two chairs, one jacket. Physically, that's what is on stage right now at Manbites Dog Theater in Durham. Their current production of Daniel MacIvor's play In on It almost redefines minimalism, in a sense. It almost seems like those elements of the show (set, props, etc.) are stepping ...
BWW Reviews: WICKED Flies Back into Durham
Wicked has clearly established itself as a runaway success, so I don't think what people need now is my personal "review" of the show. Ever since being nominated for the Tony Award for best musical, people have known that the show is good. But I do want to put in my two cents about seeing the tour...
BWW Reviews: Looking Back or Looking Forward - HENCEFORWARD... at Deep Dish Theater
There's a first time for everything. This past weekend marked the first time I saw a play in which one of the main characters is a robot. You're going to have to trust me that it's not quite as strange as it sounds - it's Deep Dish Theater Company's production of Alan Ayckbourn's Henceforward…. ...
BWW Reviews: Bringing Hardy to Life: JUDE THE OBSCURE at Burning Coal Theatre Company
New work is exciting - it is the lifeblood of the arts community. I am honored by every opportunity I get to see new work opening itself up to the world for the very first time. I was particularly honored to see Burning Coal Theatre Company's world premiere of Jude the Obscure because it is based ...
BWW Reviews: NOISES OFF, Funny On at PlayMakers Repertory Company
This sounds like an exaggeration, but I promise that it's not: Noises Off at PlayMakers Repertory Company in Chapel Hill is, honest-to-goodness, the funniest thing I have seen in quite some time. It reminded me that live theater is magical - I cannot think of a single movie which is as funny as thi...
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Dear Evan Hansen Theatre Raleigh (6/03-6/21) |
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Shadows in Red Light Burning Coal Theatre Company (6/21-6/21) |
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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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MAMMA MIA! DPAC (12/29-1/03) |
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Little Women Temple Theatre (10/15-11/01) |
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Pleasure Toys Store Fredericksburg Adam & Eve Stores (7/05-7/29) |
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Buena Vista Social Club DPAC (9/22-9/27) |
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Hadestown DPAC (3/05-3/07) |
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The Notebook Durham Performing Arts Center (7/14-7/19) |
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Shadows in Red Light Burning Coal Theatre Company (6/26-6/26) |
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