A scaffolding draped in greenery towers upstage in the Paul Green Theatre. Fairies flutter" glide and dance across the stage as a piano floats through the air.This is a scene from the PlayMakers Repertory Company's Summer Youth Conservatory production of ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" which opens tonight.
Thursday begins the second phase of the 8th Annual 10 By 10 Festival that will continue showing through Sunday at the ArtsCenter in Carrboro. ""I think the best way to describe it is ‘great theater for people with a short attention span"""" said sound designer and Musical Director Shannon O'Neill.
Twenty-four venues throughout Chapel Hill and Carrboro will open their doors Friday night welcoming pedestrians to this month's 2ndFriday ArtWalk.
The language barrier dissolved Saturday evening between the Russian-speaking Bolshoi Ballet and its English-speaking audience in Memorial Hall. The company moved to Tchaikovsky's music played by the N.C. Symphony under the baton of Bolshoi orchestral conductor Pavel Sorokin manifesting expressions that words could not.
Acoustic guitars lined the stage Friday as a sold-out crowd awaited the entrance of Brandi Carlile at The ArtsCenter in Carrboro.
