Carolina Performing Arts - The Daily Tar Heel

Art majors adapt to the pandemic moving into the new semester

By Elaina James | January 26

Although performing arts is especially reliant on community spaces, students remain optimistic despite a remote start to the spring semester.

Carolina Performing Arts' Commons Festival gives a digital platform to local artists

By Ellis Riggsbee | January 21

“The subject matter that they're dealing with at this time, and for all four of these artists to be young Black artists and to be given a platform for ...

Carolina Performing Arts explores art during the pandemic with its "Feedback" program

By Lily Chubb | October 18

Carolina Performing Arts is offering a new online program called "Feedback" that explores concepts of arts that are shifting in response to the COVID-19 ...

Grammy-nominated UNC alum Tift Merritt to host livestream interview series for CPA

By Avery Baker | September 15

Carolina Performing Arts' upcoming virtual series, “The Spark,” is being hosted by Grammy-nominated musician and UNC alum Tift Merritt.   ...

Carolina Performing Arts suspends fall performances, launches virtual concert series

By Elizabeth Egan | July 5

Like many other areas of the UNC and Chapel Hill communities, Carolina Performing Arts is "looking forward" with an ongoing virtual concert series.

Carolina Performing Arts cancels remaining performances of the spring season

By Maddie Ellis | March 12

Carolina Performing Arts has canceled all remaining performances and public events to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, according to an email sent Thursday.  ...

Despite Oscars' neglect of women in top categories, UNC female filmmakers fight on

By Maddie Ellis | February 10

The Academy Awards were held on Feb. 9, honoring what many would consider to be the best of film. In the category for best director, no women were nominated. ...

'Distorted and false version of history': CPA responds to Silent Sam settlement

By Gaby Iori | January 16

On Dec. 20, Carolina Performing Arts released a statement in response to the Sons of Confederate Veterans settlement. Chancellor Emeritus James Moeser ...

'Not your parents' Swan Lake': Carolina Performing Arts hosts Loch na hEala

By Dominick Ferrara | November 18

A new take on "Swan Lake" is coming to Chapel Hill, rooted in folklore, the modern world and Irish influences. 

Sarah Cahill celebrates the 19th amendment in 'The Future is Female'

By Rylee Parsons | November 14

The five-hour event will feature over 60 pieces composed by women and allows listeners to arrive and leave at any time. 

'She is a goddess': Emmylou Harris brings her unique style of music to UNC

By Megan Friedman | November 6

Singer-songwriter Emmylou Harris is performing at Memorial Hall on Friday as a part of Carolina Performing Arts' 15th anniversary.

New exhibit illuminates North Carolina’s complicated history with women’s suffrage

By Hannah Correll | September 19

Artist Craig Walsh honors women's suffrage, which was a long time coming to North Carolina, with projection art installation, "1971." 

'She's a barrier-breaking artist': Carolina Performing Arts to host dancer Misty Copeland

By Jessica Hardison | August 27

She is a woman who persevered through adversity and became a world-renowned ballerina. Carolina Performing Arts prepares to kick off their new season ...

Compagnie Kafig had its Chapel Hill debut on Tuesday and Wednesday as a part of the 2013-2014 Carolina Performing Arts season. The dance group, made up of 11 dancers, combines the dance style of hip-hop and samba with capoeira. (Photo courtesy of Carolina Performing Arts)

Carolina Performing Arts founder departs UNC for N.Y.C. arts foundation

By Preston Lennon | July 10

Carolina Performing Arts is the brain-child of Emil Kang, an influential professor in the music department who worked in the chancellor's cabinet to elevate ...

Find your next good read with these short story dispensers debuting on Friday

By Cam Edson | April 9

UNC is bringing story dispensers, which will print short stories for on-the-go readers, to campus for Arts Everywhere Day. These dispensers have two buttons, ...

Stone Center to host 15th annual "He Was a Song, He Was a Poem" for MLK Day

By Maydha Devarajan | January 20

Charles E. Williams, an artist based out of Greensboro, N.C., explores the family relationship, forgiveness and transformation in his exhibit.The exhibit ...

'The Nutcracker' brings holiday magic to Memorial Hall

By Elsa Mark | November 27

Experience the magic of ballet and the holidays this weekend at Memorial Hall.

The Town has ideas for Varsity Theatre, but do they have the owners' support?

By Andreamarie Efthymiou | October 29

The Town of Chapel Hill plans to establish a task force to investigate potentially broadening the use of Varsity Theatre, helping attract patrons to other ...

Southern Oral History Program aims to give a voice to untold stories

By Suzanne Blake | October 8

The Southern Oral History Program online database allows students to look back into the lives 6,000 people in the American South. 

'It's a constant vigil': PlayMakers celebrates 100 years of breaking down barriers through art

By Karen Stahl | September 6

It all started with a letter.