Performance
“In the Next Room”
PlayMakers Repertory Company
Paul Green Theatre
Sept. 21 through Oct. 9, Tues. to Sat. at 7:30 p.m., Sat. and Sun. at 2 p.m.
Tickets are $10 to $45
This Tony-winning play is about women and vibrators. What more is there to say?
Read assistant Arts editor Katherine Proctor’s review of the play here.
Anthony Dean Griffey
Carolina Performing Arts
Memorial Hall
Thursday at 8 p.m.
Tickets are $10 to $39
Four-time Grammy winner Anthony Dean Griffey sings classics of all sorts, accompanied by various faculty playing strings. One of his last performances had a six-minute standing ovation. Unbeatable.
“SIC”
LAB! Theatre
Center for Dramatic Art, Room 103
Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., Monday at 5 p.m.
Free admission
This play is about college graduates who have to deal with the real world. Also, the text of the play has no punctuation, which is totally edgy.
William S. Newman Series: Clara Yang
Hill Hall
Saturday, 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
$10 for UNC faculty and staff, $15 general admission
Faculty pianist Clara Yang will play a solo recital featuring the music of Handel and Tchaikovsky.
Funny Business Live!
The Carrboro ArtsCenter
Saturday at 8 p.m.
Tickets are $15
Kyle Dunnigan, of “Reno 911!” fame, performs at the ArtsCenter in the first of a series of professional comedy shows.
Music in the Galleries: The String Theory Quartet
Ackland Art Museum
Sunday, 2 p.m.
Free admission
A student string quartet will play in the galleries of the Ackland Art Museum.
Three for Three
Hill Hall
Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Free admission
A concert featuring Donald Oehner on clarinet, Yoram Youngerman on viola and Jane Hawkins on piano.
For more information, visit music.unc.edu.
Art
Ackland Art Museum
Gallery and Exhibits (10 a.m. – 8 pm Thursday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. Sunday)
Free admission
The Ackland’s latest exhibition, “Carolina Collects,” features pieces from alumni collection. It’s open until December 4.
The first in a series of films about collecting art, presented in conjunction with the museum’s “Carolina Collects” exhibit.
Look for staff writer Alex Edwards’ story about the series in tomorrow’s print edition.
Nasher Museum of Art
Duke University
Gallery and Exhibits (10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday, 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday)
Admission $5, but free to all 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursdays
The Nasher’s exhibit “The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure The Signs of Power, 1973-1991” opens Thursday. The exhibit is a survey of leading female artists who examine feminine contribution to the development of deconstructivism.
Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History: Paul Hills
Hanes Art Center
Thursday, 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Free admission
Hills will lecture on the use of clothing and drapery in the art of Lorenzo Lotto.
Look for staff writer Kathryn Muller’s post about the lecture on Canvas tomorrow.
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