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Free Reign Theatre’s ‘A Soldier’s Play’ Recalls the Brink of a New Era
The effects of segregation, Jim Crow, and the Ku Klux Klan choke the atmosphere surrounding Fort Neal, a fictitious 1944…
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‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’ Makes the Speech. Does It Slam the Door?
If you make a brief study of Henrik Ibsen’s original A Doll’s House script — going beyond the Wikipedia write-up…
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Three Bone Theatre’s ‘The Chinese Lady’ Tells a Tragic but Unknown American Story
Somewhere in China, either forgotten in the innards of a few cellphones and computer hard drives or hanging up proudly…
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Walls and Borders Lurk Invisibly in ‘how to make an American Son’
Beyond the first two capital letters ever used by playwright christopher oscar peña in any of his titles, peña injects…
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Opera Carolina Takes off on an International Flight
Look up, look around, and look quick. There’s a new international music festival here in Charlotte, and it’s already in…
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Theatre Charlotte’s ‘Detroit ’67’ Spins Motown into History
Baked into many great American plays is the notion that dreaming big, striving for the golden apple of success, is…
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Spoleto Festival USA 2023: Sorting 300 Artists Over 17 Days
With so many theatre, dance, opera, jazz, orchestral, choral, and chamber music events to choose from — more than 300…
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QC Concerts Aims High with ‘Angels in America’
The Queen City has played host to historic productions of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America before, most famously the Charlotte…
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‘Sister Mary Ignatius’ Takes Dogma and Certitude to the Limit
For playwright Christopher Durang and now for the Queen City, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You has a…
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Charlotte Conservatory Theatre Takes ‘POTUS’ to Cain Center
After the morning press conference, there’s China, an international meeting on nuclear proliferation, followed by a photo op with…
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Theatre Charlotte’s ‘Pippin’ Overachieves at The Barn
There was plenty of magic to do last Friday night as Theatre Charlotte opened their new production of Pippin at…
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‘Misery’ Loves the Theatre Charlotte Company at Queens Road Barn
Fame can be unsettling and painful. It can be dangerous, corrupting or toxic. But it was Stephen King who had…
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Three Bone Theatre’s ‘Andy and the Orphans’ Showcases Untapped Talent
When playwright Lindsey Ferrentino wrote Amy and the Orphans about her Down syndrome aunt Amy, she convincingly demonstrated that she…
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Alejandro Cerrudo Revives Innovative Works with New Run of Shows
Charlotte Ballet’s reveal wasn’t as dramatic as Theatre Charlotte’s recent return to the renovated Old Barn on Queens Road with…
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Theatre Charlotte Returns to Queens Barn with ‘Something Rotten!’
We are all stupid and silly — and we all love smart-ass musicals that tell us so. That’s the deep…
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Envy, Racism, and Pure Evil Explode in ‘A Soldier’s Play’
Premiered Off-Broadway by the Negro Ensemble Company at Theatre Four in late 1981, Charles Fuller’s A Soldier’s Play went on…
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