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High performances with comical twist: Ruddigore

By Courtney Spear | October 27

What happens when "Rocky Horror Picture Show" meets Gilbert and Sullivan? Very good and very funny things do, said Steven Dobbins, actor and co-director ...

New movie make funny for Heels

By HARRY KAPLOWITZ | October 27

Only 30 broken chairs kept the Carolina Union Activities Board from filling the Student Union auditorium with UNC students anxious to see what's been ...

Pauper players to get dramatic

By Jess Thom | October 27

This weekend students won't have to venture to Broadway to discover that life is a "Cabaret." Pauper Players' latest production of the famed musical ...

Halloween costumes need less glitter, more gore

October 27

When I was about 7 years old, I wanted nothing else but to be Scorpion from "Mortal Kombat" for Halloween. Mom decided he was too blatantly evil, ...

'Danton's Death' premieres with all-female production

By Lea Luquire | October 26

It's described on the play's Web site as a "disturbingly contemporary meditation on the limits of reason, ideology's cruelty and man's eternal search ...

Theater debuts true stories of exonerated convicts

By Sara Wise | October 26

In the past 30 years, 123 people have been freed from death row because of new evidence proving their innocence. Playwrights Jessica Blank and Erik ...

Foreign drama to take stage

By MORGAN ELLIS | October 26

With every chaotic act that occurs, there always seems to be an artistic voice to make light of those events. Ratan Thiyam's Chorus Repertory Theatre ...

Rock-inspired play set to premiere

By Laura Thompson | October 26

Company Carolina is building a wall. And this year it's not just referring to a set. Premiering tonight and running through Monday in the Forest Theatre ...

Former student searches for Hollywood fame

By Katie Hughes | October 25

An anonymous friend slipped Erin White the key to a ritzy apartment complex in Studio City, Calif. The key has been passed down for years, its owner ...

'Trials' takes center screen

By Amy Zhang | October 24

Justice sometimes can be elusive. As the documentary "The Trials of Darryl Hunt" attempts to depict, justice might take about 20 years, two convictions, ...

Nightlight to host 'Audible, visible' collaboration

By David Berngartt | October 18

The fancies of both art and music lovers will be tickled Saturday at the Nightlight bar and club in Chapel Hill. "Audible, Visible: A Night of Electronic ...

Music adds to draw of fair

By HARRY KAPLOWITZ | October 18

The choice between a funnel cake and a live concert might not seem like much of a tossup, but food, not music, is the No. 1 draw for N.C. State Fair attendees. "The ...

Festival to highlight Durham music scene

October 18

The Troika Music Festival, after expanding to venues across the Triangle in 2005, is making its way back home to Durham with a lineup of local and national ...

UNC alumni to play at Aartscenter

By Bennett Campbell | October 18

When UNC graduate Brendan James got a call from Carly Simon in 2004 asking him to sing with her at the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize, he was shocked. After ...

Upward movement

By Lea Luquire | October 16

Famed American dancer and choreographer Agnes de Mille once said, "To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, ...

Absurdist 'La Turista' beyond the norm

By Laura Thompson | October 13

Lab! Theatre's latest production, "La Turista," tells a tale of two American tourists vacationing in Mexico. But this is no normal vacation. "It ...

Jazz master playing campus

By MARGARET HAIR | October 13

For more than 40 years, Chick Corea has been anchored on the list of jazz greats - and his style as a pianist has changed with each passing decade. "What's ...

'Rent' not just not great, it's downright bad

October 13

The production of "Rent" at Memorial Hall has somehow, disturbingly, managed to move tickets faster than the University's homecoming concert. And I ...

N.C. museum hosting 'Money in Normandy'

By Jess Thom | October 13

Beginning Sunday, visitors of the N.C. Museum of Art will be able to experience the coastal sunsets and picturesque villages created by iconic Impressionist ...

Putting down Roots

By MORGAN ELLIS | October 12

With the opportunity to camp out for basketball tickets long gone, students slumbered on the bricks for a chance to see the 2006 Homecoming concert. Tickets ...