One of UNC’s own has been nominated by President Barack Obama to serve on the National Council on the Arts.

The recipients of Grammy Awards in nine categories — the most in the awards’ history — will play tonight in Memorial Hall.

Carolina Performing Arts will bring nine world premieres and two U.S. premieres from around the globe to the Memorial Hall stage in its 2012-2013 season.

Within two weeks, Carolina Performing Arts is presenting two very different ballets.

In the span of a week, the music of Senegal, European youth and some of America’s finest jazz musicians will grace the stage of Memorial Hall.

A warmly lit green room with walls covered in framed posters of iconic plays, ballets and music performances buzzes with French chatter.

After months of midnight rehearsals and hours of practice, four dance groups will showcase their work this weekend at Memorial Hall, with tickets free to anyone with a valid One Card.

Shana Moulton has an alter ego named Cynthia, an agoraphobic hypochondriac who lives in her own virtual environment.

Tori Ralston was walking down the aisle of a thrift store when a couple of puppets caught her eye. A graduate student studying sculpture at the University of Minnesota, Ralston was about to discover a new artistic love.

In September, an intriguing line-up of modern American stories and commissioned premieres will begin for PlayMakers Repertory Company.

Audiences in Gerrard Hall this weekend aren’t expected to simply watch, applaud and leave.

This month is relatively empty for Carolina Performing Arts. Rather than its usual four or five performances per month, Carolina Performing Arts presented only one performance in January.

Brooklyn Rider has performed in the Library of Congress, New York nightclubs and the Todai-ji Temple in Japan.

Though showing tonight at Historic Playmakers Theatre, Jared Mezzocchi’s one-man show — “Poppa, God Bless” — isn’t complete. The performance is the second installment of the Process Series, which features performance works that are still in progress.

Carolina Performing Arts is presenting the world premiere of magician Rick Thomas’ updated “Nutcracker” this weekend at Memorial Hall.

His colleagues agree that Estes Tarver deserves a standing ovation. While staging his acting career amidst greats like Oscar-winner Colin Firth and writing quirkily murderous characters, Tarver still manages to participate in local theater.

As funding for the University’s major arts organizations dwindles, the value of student support has grown.

Carolina Performing Arts is hosting a tribute to the historic James Brown tonight, led by saxophonist and composer Pee Wee Ellis, who was a part of Brown’s band in the 1960s.

Beethoven’s 19th century classical and romantic music is coming to Memorial Hall. The Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, an acclaimed orchestra from the United Kingdom, specializes in playing Beethoven exactly the way it was composed, played and heard in the 19th century before the composer became deaf.

Irish accents and wordplay will begin a four-day run tonight. Carolina Performing Arts is sponsoring the performance of two of Irish absurdist playwright Samuel Beckett’s pieces, “Watt” and “Endgame.”