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SITI Company Will Present “Who Do You Think You Are,” a Work-in-Progress, for Free May 18th at UNC(0)

May 16, 2012

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.

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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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