Theatre Feature 
SITI Company Will Present “Who Do You Think You Are,” a Work-in-Progress, for Free May 18th at UNC(0)
PlayMakers Repertory Company is hosting the SITI Company of New York City, which will present a FREE performance of its new work-in-progress, entitled “Who Do You Think You Are,” at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, May 18th, in Frey Rehearsal Hall in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Center for Dramatic Art. (Note: Although admission is free, the space is small, and e-mailing PRCresidencies@gmail.com to reserve seats is highly recommended.)
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Ntozake Shange’s Choreopoem “For Colored Girls …” Is a Passionate Elegy for African-American Women
Burning Coal Theatre Company and She-Cow Productions will present “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” a passionate elegy for black women everywhere penned by now 63-year-old Trenton, NJ-born African-American dramatist and poet Ntozake Shange (pronounced “en-to-zaki shong-gay”), on May 10-13 and 17-20 in the Murphey School Auditorium as part of Burning Coal’s “Wait Til You See This!” second-stage series. N.C. Central University Department of Theatre faculty member Karen D. Dacons-Brock will direct the show, and Emelia “Me-Me” Cowans and Sherida McMullan will produce For Colored Girls … for She-Cow Productions.
TAS’ 2012 Season Includes “A Streetcar Named Desire” and a Solo About Louis Armstrong
The 2012 season of the Theater of the American South, a professional theater founded in 2006, will include Tennessee Williams’ 1948 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, “A Streetcar Named Desire,” and “A Tuff Shuffle: Backstage with Louis Armstrong,” a critically acclaimed one-man show written and performed by Danny Mullen. “A Tuff Shuffle” will play May 10-27 in the Lauren Kennedy and Alan Campbell Theatre at Barton College in Wilson, NC; and “A Streetcar Named Desire” will play May 11-27 in the Edna Boykin Cultural Center in downtown Wilson.
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- In “For Lucy,” an Imaginative, Fearless Third Grader Learns How to Cope After Her Mother Passes Away
- Sir Alan Ayckbourn’s 1987 Comedy “Henceforward…” Is a Wickedly Funny Look at Love, Art, and Robots
- May 2012 Theater Calendar
- Deborah Jean Templin’s “Unsinkable Women” Tells the Untold Stories from the Sinking of the Titanic
- “Penelope,” a New Play Written and Performed by Ellen McLaughlin, Will Premiere at PlayMakers Rep
- Jennifer Evans and J. Evarts Star in Ghost & Spice’s Production of Shelagh Delaney’s “A Taste of Honey”
- In Caroline Francke’s Comedy, His Daughter’s Wedding Drives the “Father of the Bride” Crazy
- Tony® Winner Beth Leavel Will Star as M’Lynn in NCT’s Gala Presentation of “Steel Magnolias”
- Four Reform-School Girls Idolize Margaret Sanger in Monica Byrne’s “What Every Girl Should Know”
- “Bring It On: The Musical” Is a Behind-the-Scenes Look at the World of Competitive Cheerleading
- “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller Is a Cautionary Tale About the Salem Witch Trials’ Rush to Judgment
- An Invigorating Comedy of Ideas, David Auburn’s “Proof” Won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
- Burning Coal’s “Jude the Obscure” Is a Two-Part Musical Adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Novel
- “Leaving Iowa” at Theatre in the Park Is a Hilarious — and Touching — Comedy About Family Vacations
- Michael Frayn’s Fast and Furious Backstage Sex Comedy “Noises Off” Sends the Sardines Flying
- April 2012 Theater Calendar
- “Cape Disappointment” Is a Bizarre Comic Homage to Drive-in Movies by the Authors of “Buddy Cop 2″
- Shana Moulton and Nick Hallett’s Opera “Whispering Pines 10″ Features Moulton’s Agoraphobic Alter Ego
- Ira Glass, Host of NPR’s “This American Life,” Will Perform at DPAC at 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 24th
- “MythBusters” Co-hosts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage Will Play Raleigh Memorial Auditorium at 3 and 7 p.m. on March 25th
- Tom Stoppard’s “Rough Crossing” Is a Backstage Farce Set on a Third-Rate, Shabby Ocean Liner
- Richard Krawiec’s New Play “Creeds” Tells the Story of FBI Agent-Turned Soviet Spy Robert Hanssen