Theatre North Carolina

Community Connections - ARTS NC

ARTS North Carolina is beginning a program called Community Connections, a blitz of ARTS North Carolina activities in one location over a two or three day period of time. 



We begin in Winston-Salem this week and have events planned in Fayetteville, Raleigh, Durham, Charlotte, Asheville, and Greensboro-High Point. 

The central event is an Advocacy Workshop designed to get more people actively engaged in speaking for the arts, an imperative if we are to sustain state public funding in the years ahead and achieve our goals of a comprehensive arts education policy.  Projections have our budget deficit for 2010-11 at $4.4 billion, and to put this in perspective, the current-year deficit was $3.3 billion.  Cultural Resources overall saw a 7% cut in 2009-10, but NCAC recurring grants funding was sustained. 

Because of the deep reductions in operating funding in the current year, if additional cuts are made to Cultural Resources in 2010-11, our grants programs could be vulnerable. 

If  you would like to sponsor a Community Connection event in your community, just email Karen Wells at karen@artsnc.org.  No one is allowed to sit this one out.

Are You Going? Triangle Arts Mixer!

Triangle Arts Mixer

Friday, November 20 , 2009
6PM to 9PM

Building 2, The Cotton Room
Free, Open to public


The first-ever Triangle Arts Mixer is an evening for arts organizations, arts supporters, and artists of all disciplines to mix, mingle, and find new ways to activate and advance the Triangle arts scene.

The Mixer will feature a broad network of area arts organizations and young professional arts groups, dj Yes! Sputnik, light food, and a cash bar in the spectacular, newly-opened event venue—The Cotton Room. You won't want to miss this unique opportunity to interact with art organizations and other members of the Triangle community that share a common purpose and passion for the arts.

Held as part of Third Friday Durham, hosted by Golden Belt, CAM/now, and The Cotton Room.

Arts groups are still signing up to participate. The current list of groups attending includes:
CAM/now
Artspace
Carolina Ballet
NC Symphony
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Carolina Theatre
NC Museum of Art's Contemporaries
Code f.a.d. Company
Arts NC State

South Pacific at Broadway Series South

I love South Pacific! Anyone going? It's playing at the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium (Broadway Series South) now through November 8th. Check out the review from IndyWeek.com here.

RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN'S

SOUTH PACIFIC

November 3 - November 8, 2009

“Simply Wonderful! Beguiling Theatrical Magic!” hails the New York Post for the breathtaking new production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s SOUTH PACIFIC. A stunning reinvention produced by Lincoln Center Theater, SOUTH PACIFIC swept the 2008 Tony Awards®, winning seven honors including Best Musical Revival and Best Director for Bartlett Sher. Set on a tropical island during World War II, the musical tells the sweeping romantic story of two couples and how their happiness is threatened by the realities of war and by their own prejudices. The beloved score’s songs include “Some Enchanted Evening,” “I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair,” “This Nearly Was Mine” and “There is Nothin’ Like a Dame.” USA Today cheers, “★★★★! Gorgeous! SOUTH PACIFIC doesn’t just float; it soars!”

Based on James Michener’s Pulitzer Prize winning book Tales of the South Pacific, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s SOUTH PACIFIC has music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, a book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan and is directed by 2008 Tony Award®-winner Bartlett Sher.

GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS Through November 14th at Deep Dish Theater

GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS
by David Mamet,
directed by Paul Frellick
October 23 – November 14

Tough economic times and a cut-throat sales contest bring out the worst in a group of unscrupulous real estate salesmen in this Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy.

(L-R) John Murphy and Harvey Sage in GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS.
All photos by Lisa Marie Albert.



(L-R) Jonathan Leinbach and Joshua Purvis in GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS.
All photos by Lisa Marie Albert.

The Deep Dish Book Book Selection for this production is The Bible Salesman by Clyde Edgerton. A discussion of the book, free and open to the public, will be held at 6:30 p.m., prior to the performance on Thursday, November 12.

You can also join the online discussion of The Bible Salesman at www.deepdishbook.blogspot.com.

The Vision Series - Nicholas Nickleby

The Vision Series

Directors in Conversation

The Making of a Epic

Nicholas Nickleby


PlayMakers Repertory Company

November 4
6:30pm

The Vision Series is an exciting new series that invites you to join PlayMakers Repertory Company in the Paul Green Theatre for a glass of wine and the chance to learn about a production in process. Meet the director, and get a behind the scenes look at the design and vision for Nickleby. Each evening in the Vision Series is sponsored by a Whole Foods Market of Chapel Hill and Counter Culture Coffee so you will be able to experience the flavors of the Triangle while learning more about our upcoming productions.

These events are free, open to the public and begin at 6:30pm.

Space is limited, so please contact our box office to make reservations - 919.962.PLAY (7529).

CREATIVITY SNAPSHOT: The Arts

CREATIVITY SNAPSHOT: The Arts

Thursday, November 12, 2009

5:30 - 7:00 PM at
DOS PERROS RESTAURANT
200 N. Mangum St., Durham, NC 27701

The Institute for Emerging Issues (IEI) and the Durham Arts Council invite you to this interesting conversation of how a community can support and welcome artists as part of its culture. This event is part of IEI's creativity program of work, and one lucky person will win a ticket to the Emerging Issues Forum on February 8 and 9, 2010.

Appetizers provided; Cash Bar
Admission is Free. Please reserve your space.

CLICK HERE TO RSVP

Panelists:
Todd Atlas - Owner, Sound Pure Studios Durham
Greg Kueber - Development Manager, Golden Belt, Durham
Sherry DeVries - Executive Director,Durham Arts Council
Nancy Tuttle May- Nationally recognized Visual Artist, Durham
Moderator: Anita Brown-Graham - Director, Institute for Emerging Issues


About the NC State University Institute for Emerging Issues

The Institute for Emerging Issues (IEI) is a public policy, think-and-do tank that convenes leaders from business, non profit organizations, government and higher education to tackle some of the biggest issues facing North Carolina’s future growth and prosperity. More about IEI here.

Picasso's Closet

Picasso's Closet
by Ariel Dorfman

Ariel Dorfman, the acclaimed author of Death and the Maiden, unveils an extraordinary reimagining of Pablo Picasso living in a time of terror: What if Picasso didn't die in 1973 but was murdered by the Germans during the occupation of Paris? A work of dazzling innovation, romantic intrigue and probing dilemmas for our time.

This new play by Ariel Dorfman, Duke’s Walter Hines Page Research Professor of Literature, is a staged reading by Jay O'Berski, artistic director, Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern.

Thursday, October 29 at 7:00pm
Friday, October 30 at 7:00pm
Saturday, October 31 at 2:00pm
Sunday, November 15 at 7:00pm

Nasher Museum of Art
Duke University
Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Family Lecture Hall

General Seating

$5  General Admission

Approximately 2 hours with one 15 minute intermission.

**Please arrive early. Late seating restrictions may be enforced.**

Tickets may be purchased on the day of the show or through the Duke Ticket office:
tickets.duke.edu (919) 684-4444

Carolina Ballet - Picasso Talkback

Picasso, Picasso, Picasso

I love collaboration! The Triangle is fortunate to have a vibrant arts scene and to have artists and administrators who are eager to work with one another. The Nasher Museum of Art, the Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern and the Carolina Ballet are working together to celebrate and examine the work of Picasso! It's a win-win-win! Bravo!!

The Indy has three great articles about the collaboration surrounding the Picasso exhibit at Duke's Nasher Museum of Art.
Check them out below!

A new conversation about Picasso at the Nasher

It's astonishing to consider that Picasso and the Allure of Language is the first major exhibition to have focused on the importance of text and language in Picasso's work.

Picasso's "Dice, Packet of Cigarettes, and Visiting-Card" (1914). Painted and printed paper, graphite and watercolor. 5-1/2" x 8-1/4"


Ariel Dorfman discusses his play about Pablo Picasso

In Picasso's Closet, this phantom called Balzac asks Picasso, "Don't you want to be who you were at the beginning? With nobody between you and the terror?"


Ariel Dorfman, author of "Picasso's Closet," at Duke University

It's no stretch to explore Picasso's relationship to modern dance

Carolina Ballet's Picasso explores the narratives in Picasso's works more than what makes up their uniquely visual genius.

Carolina Ballet's "Picasso"

Speaking Without Tounges - Violence and Survival

Speaking Without Tongues
A Hidden Voices Performance on Domestic Violence

Duke Reynolds Theatre: Speaking Without Tongues performance, October 27, 7 pm.
Sponsored by the Duke Human Rights Center.



Speaking Without Tongues explores violence and survival in the lives of women across North Carolina.

As part of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the Carrboro-based nonprofit group Hidden Voices presents “Speaking Without Tongues,” a performance by and about the survivors of violence against women. The play is based on true stories gathered across the state from women who have been, or still are being, abused. Rights groups around the world are framing domestic violence as a human rights violation, when governments fail to protect victims or prosecute perpetrators. The performance is joined by a month-long exhibition in Duke Chapel of photographs and multi-media boxes that help tell the personal stories of violence and survival in the lives of women from diverse ethnic backgrounds across North Carolina. “Speaking without Tongues” is written by Lynden Harris, Hidden Voices director.

Sponsored by the Duke Human Rights Center. Cosponsored by Women’s Studies at Duke University, Duke Theater Studies, the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South and the Duke Chapter of Amnesty International.

Violence against women and girls is a major human rights issue and a global phenomenon of epidemic proportions. The survival stories these women share are difficult but undeniably inspiring. Looking steadfastly at both realities allows us to enter a realm in which awareness grows and healing thrives.

This play tells the real life stories of domestic violence of seven women and so many others.  Interspersed with a fairy tale that follows the story of control, submission, victimization, realization, escape and eventual redemption that all of these women experienced, these women tell the stories of their lives.  As these women find their voices in the darkness, they step out of backlight into  full light and share stories that are usually left in the shadows.

“Life asks us to be courageous in so many ways, and the women on that stage tonight were very brave for what they endured and for what they shared.”

“Awesome performance. It took my breath away.”