After nine years of bringing world-renowned musicians like Yo-Yo Ma and breakthrough dance groups like L-E-V to UNC, Carolina Performing Arts has established itself in Chapel Hill.
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America: land of the free — unless in a time of war.
Read More »Every year, Carolina Performing Arts brings Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater to campus to engage students who are otherwise disinterested in the arts — and it works.
Read More »The Art of Cool Festival, an inaugural event in Durham, is bringing performances from local jazz combos, student musicians and internationally renowned jazz artists to the Triangle this weekend.
Read More »Having taken the stage over 700 times for her one-woman show, veteran actress Barbara Bates Smith still describes every performance as magical.
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This gender-bending night of music and entertainment isn’t at all like your grandma’s typical theater show.
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When scenic designer McKay Coble met with visiting artist Joseph Megel last spring to plan the Kenan Theatre Company’s 2013-14 season, she looked to a production from the past for inspiration
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PlayMakers Repertory Company’s production of “Assassins,” a musical written by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman and directed by Mike Donahue, brought an assortment of well-developed and well-played characters to the Paul Green Theatre Saturday.
Read More »UNC Pauper Players’ “Avenue Q” combined two opposing elements — innocent-looking puppets and vulgar, crude humor — to teach audience members that the internet is only for porn.
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Chapel Hill is a home away from home for many students during their college years, but even musicians from Brooklyn, New York, have found comfort in returning to the town time and time again.
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Imagine Cookie Monster lyrically professing his love for Internet porn, or Bert and Ernie serenading each other with romantic confessions, alongside other “Sesame Street” characters as they crack jokes about racism and religion.
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A relatively fresh cast will bring a fresh perspective to Company Carolina’s production of “Dog Sees God,” which opens tonight at Historic Playmakers Theatre.Freshman dramatic art major Connor Sturgis, plays the lead role as Charlie Brown, or CB.
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Three and a half tons of rice will arrive on campus tonight. Not at the dining hall, but on the stage of Memorial Hall.
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Audiences will enter a surreal world in which presidential assassins from America’s history, including John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald, mix and mingle in PlayMakers Repertory Company’s production of “Assassins.”
Read More »The statistics are staggering — approximately 27 million people in slavery today — yet many people don’t know that sex trafficking exists.
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The Peanuts gang is taking Chapel Hill, complete with melancholy monologues by a young Charlie Brown, philosophical ponderings from a confused Snoopy and bullying antics by the infamously evil Lucy.
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With the grand scenery of UNC’s Forest Theater behind them and with the dramatic equivalent of “House of Cards” on a bloody Shakespearean stage, Lab!
Read More »The UNC Opera and UNC Opera Orchestra and teaming up for this second time this weekend to perform Puccini’s “Gianni Schicchi” and Michael Ching’s “Buoso’s Ghost." The two-part opera combines the classic and its 21st-century sequel, written by the living composer Ching.
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Costume pieces, sheet music, black and white production pictures and multicolored playbills tell the story of the PlayMakers Repertory Company, one of the first student theater groups at UNC which was formerly known as Carolina Playmakers.
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Eric Kuhn and Erica Fink are not your average couple. Sure, they can finish each other’s sentences and there’s a sparkle in their eyes when they look at one another, but there’s something else that makes their bond even stronger: music.
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