Tag: N.C. State LIVE
BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play Features Five Well-Trained and Highly Talented Dancers
First up, I will need to admit that I am not by any means qualified as a critic of dance, so have the proverbial “grain of salt” handy. The subtitle of N.C. State LIVE’s Feb. 25th presentation of Camille A. Brown’s BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play created an expectation in me of a something a bit… Read More ›
Camille Brown’s BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play Is a Captivating Hour of Dance, Beats, and Chants
If I could compare N.C. State LIVE’s Feb. 25th presentation of Camille A. Brown’s BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play to anything it would perhaps be this scene from the 1950 film Summer Stock. Like Gene Kelly investigating a creaky floorboard and an abandoned newspaper, Brown takes it further to delve into the sounds and feeling of… Read More ›
The HillBenders’ Tommy: A Bluegrass Opry Is an Amazing Experience
It’s hard to hear the song lyric, “Ever since I was a young boy I played the silver ball,” without breaking out in your own air-guitar rendition of The Who’s historic 1969 rock opera, Tommy. The HillBenders, wanting to “pair bluegrass with the other music we grew up with,” bring it into their own genre… Read More ›
Playwright/Performer Sylvia Milo Gives Voice to the Unsung Genius of The Other Mozart
N.C. State LIVE brought Polish playwright, violinist, and actress Sylvia Milo and her internationally touring one-woman play, The Other Mozart, to N.C. State University’s Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre last weekend. Milo won the 2015 New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Solo Performance as Maria Anna “Nannerl” Mozart (1751-1829), older sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)…. Read More ›
Politicians’ Foibles and Scandals Provide Grist for The Capitol Steps’ Satirical Mill
Pretty nearly everyone over 55 has heard of The Capitol Steps, a political parody troupe that performed two shows this past Saturday in Stewart Theatre in N.C. State University’s Talley Student Union in Raleigh, NC, as part of the N.C. State LIVE series. The satirizing singing group arose in the early 1980s as a pastime… Read More ›