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“Triassic Parq: The Musical” premiered on Thursday.

Rock musical Triassic Parq delivers witty numbers and constant laughs

By Josephine Yurcaba | August 22

Audience laughter wasn’t the only thing that was hard and extended in Wagon Wheel Arts’ Thursday night production of “Triassic Parq: The Musical.” ...

Dramatic arts prepares for new chair

By Samantha Sabin | August 21

McKay Coble, the current dramatic art department chair, will pass the department chair torch to fellow dramatic art professor Adam Versenyi in January. ...

Natalie Myrick plays T-Rex 1 in “Trassic Parq: The Musical”, directed by Nathaniel P. Claridad. The play runs Thursday, August 22nd through Sunday, August 25th.

‘Triassic Parq: The Musical’ opens tonight at the Center for Dramatic Art

By Gabriella Cirelli | August 21

Dinosaurs, sex and Morgan Freeman will share the stage tonight at the Center for Dramatic Art.

Tribe in Motion expresses spirituality through dance

By Elizabeth Tew | August 21

It’s a constantly moving journey of experience. That’s how Rremida Shkoza described her show “Tribe in Motion,” which is a combination of theater, ...

'Mobile Mural' bus takes art to the streets

By Katie Hjerpe | August 20

Mary Carter Taub created a piece of installation art on a Chapel Hill Transit bus. The “Mobile Mural” in an array of colorful, intersecting stripes ...

Q&A with author Fred Bahnson

By Sarah Ang | August 20

Local author Fred Bahnson will discuss his new memoir “Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith” at Flyleaf Books on Thursday. Bahnson ...

Wale to headline Homecoming

By Josephine Yurcaba | August 19

The Carolina Union Activities Board officially announced Sunday that rap artist Wale will be performing at the fall 2013 Homecoming Concert with Ace Hood ...

Q&A with Ackland's Emily Kass

By Josephine Yurcaba | August 17

This year the Ackland Art Museum has major plans to get the community more involved in its work. Emily Kass, director of the Ackland, spoke to Josephine ...

Flyleaf inspires 'a poem in everyone'

By Tat'yana Berdan | August 16

Chapel Hill’s Flyleaf Books will kick off its busiest season of the year with a dual poetry reading featuring author Marly Youmans and former Carrboro ...

Loyal Womancraft Gifts patron, Edna Webster, (left) and Karen Graves, Display Chair, (right) discuss a jewelry purchase. Webster loves the atmosphere of the store, the ladies are very helpful and the prices are reasonable. Graves has been working at Womancraft Gifts since 1976 and loves the work environment said it was great way to learn and share with other artists.

The Shops at Eastgate businesses reopen after summer flooding

By Samantha Sabin | August 16

The arts businesses of Chapel Hill’s The Shops at Eastgate shopping center have finally recovered from the June rain that caused them to close their ...

Emil Kang has served as the Executive Director of the Arts since 2005 and is the Executive Director of CPA.

Q&A with CPA's Emil Kang

By Sarah Ang | August 16

Carolina Performing Arts’ 2013-2014 season launches the new initiative, Arts@TheCore, which aims to bridge the gap between the arts and academics on ...

Durham Arts Council exhibits blend past, present

By Breanna Kerr | August 15

Two local artists who look to the past for inspiration are showing their paintings at the Durham Arts Council as the city of Durham continues to support ...

Pierce Freelon and James Livingston, who goes by Median, are behind the new Emcee Lab, a class offered in the music department that will teach students how to be emcees.

UNC music department offers course on emceeing

By Gabriella Cirelli | August 15

Aspiring emcees and music culturists alike will now have the chance to practice and appreciate the craft in the classroom. Music 286, called Music as ...

The Daily Tar Heel’s Arts Desk calls for UNC students’ fiction submissions for blog posts

By From staff and wire reports | August 14

Calling all fiction writers: The Arts Desk is looking for UNC students writing any kind of fiction to submit content biweekly to be published on the paper’s ...

FRANK Gallery hosts animal shelter discussion

By Samantha Sabin | July 24

Joanna Adruscavage, executive director of Paws4Ever, said open house events are typical for the Mebane no-kill pet shelter — but they have never hosted ...

Songwriters renew their harmony

By Sam Schaefer | July 24

Four North Carolina singer-songwriters will perform an encore in Carrboro tonight — of a show they first played in March.

Ackland Museum Store hosts garden-themed pottery exhibit

By Samantha Sabin | July 15

The Ackland Museum Store will bring the great outdoors inside in its new garden-themed pottery show opening Friday.

PlayMakers' Summer Youth Conservatory is performing Sweeney Todd, July 17-21. Nadia Agourram and Adrian Thornburg rehearse on Monday night.

High school actors make the cut with 'Sweeney Todd' production

By McKenzie Coey | July 15

The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is making an appearance at UNC’s Center for Dramatic Art this weekend.

FRANK Gallery opens animal-themed exhibit

By McKenzie Coey | July 10

Animals of all kinds will be represented and celebrated at Chapel Hill’s FRANK Gallery in the new exhibit, ANIMALS: Forces of Nature.

Carolina Performing Arts to gear grant funds toward new program personnel

By Samantha Sabin | July 9

At first glance, Carolina Performing Arts’ project to bridge the arts and academics might seem too simple to require an $800,000 grant.