Triangle Arts and Entertainment – News and Reviews Theatre Dance Music Arts

The TheaterMakers Studio (Tony® Award-winning Producer Ken Davenport, founder) presents the fourth annual TheaterMakers Summit on November 14 and 15. This year, the event will be held virtually for attendees and speakers. The TheaterMakers Summit is the destination for all theater makers. This two-day event aims to unite aspiring writers, producers, directors, actors, and other… Read More ›

It has been over a year now. My last show before Covid-19 was March 10, 2020. The rest of the years concerts and shows were canceled or postponed. I was hoping to cover over 40 shows last year. The impact of Covid-19 on the live music industry was huge. Still is. A lot of small… Read More ›

by LeeAnn Riddle  All parents know that what is appropriate for one child may not be suitable for another child. This is also true with respect to the toys kids play with. Age can determine what type of toys are safe for children. It is the toy manufacturers legal duty to ensure all products display… Read More ›

When an evening of ballet includes music like perennial favorites George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings, the audience knows already that they’re in for a treat, but what the Carolina Ballet’s patrons got with the opening night of Rhapsody in Blue, was a gift tied up in a brilliant diamond-blue… Read More ›

Céline Dion @ the PNC Area February 11, 2020 Standing by the soundboard were they placed photographers to shoot our one song, it looked like Céline Dion sold out the PNC Arena.   As we waited for the beginning of the show,a DJ was playing music. The camera crew was on the dance monitor.  As… Read More ›

Theatre Raleigh’s Oh What A Night! has become somewhat of a local tradition. And, this year’s production- one of the first in the area to take place on a live stage since COVID- does not disappoint. Directed and choreographed by Lauren Kennedy Brady, this mash-up of medleys, performed by some of the area’s most promising… Read More ›

The Durham Savoyards, Ltd.’s FREE 2021 production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s “poetical, aesthetical, comical operettical” Patience (or, Bunthorne’s Bride) (1881), with music by Sir Arthur S. Sullivan (1842-1900) and a libretto by Sir William S. Gilbert (1836-1911), is a deliciously light, crisp satire on — of all things — the Aesthetic Movement, which pioneered the… Read More ›

The Philharmonic Association – Triangle Youth Music is offering a week intensive for young musicians who want to gain skills in jazz. Auditions will be held Monday July 15 for selection into two big bands. The intensive will run July 16 – 19, 6:30 – 9:00 at the Cary Arts Center. A free concert Saturday… Read More ›