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PlayMakers hosts Texas theater ensemble Rude Mechanicals

By Marcela Guimaraes | June 2

PlayMakers Repertory Company opens its doors to Austin-based theater ensemble Rude Mechanicals this summer.

Th3rd Power Productions presents four episodes of the Twilight Zone at the Arts Center in Carrboro.

ArtsCenter play takes a step into Twilight zone

By Marcela Guimaraes | May 19

You are about to enter another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination. Next stop, ...

Carolina Performing Arts preps for 10 more years

By Rupali Srivastava | April 24

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 ...

‘Hold These Truths’ performed at PlayMakers

By Karishma Patel | April 23

America: land of the free — unless in a time of war.

Alvin Ailey audience draws from multiple majors

By Ally Levine | April 21

Every year, Carolina Performing Arts brings Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater to campus to engage students who are otherwise disinterested ...

First Art of Cool festival in Durham hopes to engage residents in local, international jazz

By Stephanie Zimmerman | April 21

The Art of Cool Festival, an inaugural event in Durham, is bringing performances from local jazz combos, student musicians and internationally renowned ...

Actress Barbara Bates Smith to perform Ivy Rowe for 25th year

By Robert McNeely | April 16

Having taken the stage over 700 times for her one-woman show, veteran actress Barbara Bates Smith still describes every performance as magical.

Broadway Twisted raises money, performs gender-swapped songs

By Megan Caron | April 13

This gender-bending night of music and entertainment isn’t at all like your grandma’s typical theater show.

Kenan Theatre Company presents Tmberlake Wertenbaker's "Our Country's Good," directed by Joesph Megel.

Theater group dedicates performance of "Our Country's Good" to Andrew Crabtree

By Breanna Kerr | April 9

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 ...

Playmakers’ ‘Assassins’: A well-done performance

By Samantha Sabin | April 7

PlayMakers Repertory Company’s production of “Assassins,” a musical written by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman and directed by Mike Donahue, brought ...

Review: Broadway-quality vocals, laughs boost ‘Avenue Q’

By Josephine Yurcaba | April 6

UNC Pauper Players’ “Avenue Q” combined two opposing elements — innocent-looking puppets and vulgar, crude humor — to teach audience members ...

Brooklyn Rider Quartet, pictured Thursday rehearsing at Gerrard Hall, performs on Sunday at Memorial Hall. Members (left to right) Johnny Gandelsman, Eric Jacobsen, Nicholas Cards, and Colin Jacobsen are glad to be back at Carolina for their tenth year; "Music is more than notes on a page, it's life," commented C. Jacobsen on music and its discussion within the university.

Brooklyn Rider returns for 10th time

By Rupali Srivastava | April 3

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 ...

Student performers act out a musical scene during a dress rehearsal for Pauper Player's production of Avenue Q. The rehearsal took place at the Arts Center in Carrboro, Wednesday the 2nd of April.

Pauper Players walk the long road to ‘Avenue Q’

By Sarah Vassello and Madison Flager | April 3

Imagine Cookie Monster lyrically professing his love for Internet porn, or Bert and Ernie serenading each other with romantic confessions, alongside other ...

From left, Steffie Park, Connor Sturgis, Rachel Deason, Alex Ferraz, Mollie Paige Wilson, Wesley Darling, and Rachel Anderson act during a dress rehearsal of Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead. The play premieres on Friday evening and will run through Sunday.

Company Carolina to bring fresh perspective to Dog Sees God

By clayton johnson | April 3

A relatively fresh cast will bring a fresh perspective to Company Carolina’s production of “Dog Sees God,” which opens tonight at Historic Playmakers ...

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan will perform tonight with 3.5 tons of rice on stage. Courtesy of Joe Florence.

Taiwanese dance company performs with tons of rice

By Ally Levine | April 1

Three and a half tons of rice will arrive on campus tonight. Not at the dining hall, but on the stage of Memorial Hall.

PlayMakers Repertory Company’s production of “Assassins” features presidential assassins and explores their plots and motives.

PlayMakers brings ‘Assassins’ to the stage

By Juanita Chavarro | April 1

Audiences will enter a surreal world in which presidential assassins from America’s history, including John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald, mix ...

Maya Lea Osterman performs one-woman show to increase sex trafficking awareness

By Maddie Flager | March 30

The statistics are staggering — approximately 27 million people in slavery today — yet many people don’t know that sex trafficking exists.

Jonathan Scott plays Charlie Brown in Company Carolina's musical "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown."

‘You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown’ opens tonight

By Rupali Srivastava | March 27

The Peanuts gang is taking Chapel Hill, complete with melancholy monologues by a young Charlie Brown, philosophical ponderings from a confused Snoopy ...

Senior Melanie Rio combined Shakespeare's three classic Henry VI plays into one 90-minute production for her senior honors thesis. The show will be performed Saturday and Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Forest Theater.

A LAB! show compiles Shakespeare’s three ‘Henry VI’ plays

By Everett Handy | March 27

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, ...

UNC opera groups to perform companion pieces Friday

By Madison Flager | March 26

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 ...