'Caleb Calypso," currently being staged at Manbites Dog Theater in Durham, is a play about the tensions among black, white and Hispanic soldiers stationed in Germany soon after the Berlin Wall has come down.
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Music review: I hate Christmas music. Every year the same handful of stale Yuletide standards gets flogged to death by stores, radio stations and family members, with no regard for the fact that some of us would rather administer power drills to our skulls than endure "Santa Baby" for the 30,000th time.
Modified: 11/08/09 06:16:45 AM
When he began, with "Richard III" in 1984, Simon Donoghue didn't plan on producing all 37 of Shakespeare's plays over three decades. But the 56-year-old director, who runs the drama program at Belmont Abbey College, is more than halfway toward achieving that ambitious goal.
Modified: 11/06/09 02:30:15 PM
The reviews are so gushy that they'd have to go straight to your head. For the comic actress Mo'Nique, "Precious," opening in theaters across the country in November, has become the classic "big break," that once-in-a-lifetime star turn that changes a career.
Modified: 11/06/09 02:55:13 PM
In a well-traveled career that includes stints with the Lonesome River Band, Alison Krauss and Union Station, the Isaacs, and the Dan Tyminski Band, mandolinist Adam Steffey has earned a reputation for taste and versatility.
Modified: 11/08/09 06:17:04 AM
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You know the Warhol portraits - big, colorful, star-struck paintings. But what you haven't seen are the photographs the artist took of his subjects in the first place.
Modified: 11/06/09 02:25:20 PM
Longtime jazz fans can remember organist Reuben Wilson as a soul-jazz trendsetter in the 1960s and early '70s, during which time (1968-1971) he recorded five albums for Blue Note.
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This holiday season, theaters across the country will celebrate by staging some form of Charles Dickens' classic "A Christmas Carol." There will be community theater plays and at least 50 professional productions, including Theatre in the Park's long-running musical comedy in Raleigh.
Modified: 11/08/09 11:00:27 AM
Pop culture: The latest movie to both make fun of and pay tribute to the blaxploitation movie genre hit several theaters around the country last month.
Modified: 11/08/09 06:13:22 AM
Mention "MI-5" to the typical Anglophile, public television viewer and you will be filled in on the latest episode of BBC America's riveting, well-acted, late Saturday night show.
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A conniving crook and a young innocent. Paths cross. Beliefs are challenged.
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Theater Review: All Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals thoughtfully explore human foibles, but they are often categorized as sweetly old-fashioned. Lately, that myth has been shattered with Broadway revivals emphasizing their darker, grittier realities.
Modified: 11/05/09 06:42:46 AM
Theater Review: Durham playwright, Howard L. Craft followed the classic advice "write what you know" for his first full-length play, "Caleb Calypso and the Midnight Marauders."
Modified: 11/04/09 06:44:10 AM
Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific" ran on Broadway for five years after its 1949 premiere, but had no Broadway revival until last year.
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Julie Bowen apologizes for conducting an interview from Los Angeles in her car. "This is pretty much the only time I can call," the actress says.
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Two days after Karen Elizabeth Price turned 17, she stood on a red-white-and-blue-draped stage at the North Raleigh Hilton and smiled broadly for the TV cameras. Her father, David Price, had just been elected to Congress.
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At first, I thought Juan Logan was having some fun.
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The N&O's 11th annual travel photo contest is open for business.
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What would artists do with a 2,400-square-foot studio space in an old warehouse?
Modified: 11/01/09 07:52:59 AM
News from the Triangle's arts scene
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