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Current & Upcoming Events
Party Girl! Productions Presents: Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
An historical match struck over a river of gin built on the foundation of Pompeii. While Virginia Woolf may be the most vicious portrait of a marriage ever, it is ultimately – deeply and truly – a love story.
Directed by Tom Marriott, starring Mark Jeffrey Miller and Nicole Farmer with Ryan Brock and Beth Popelka. Production design by Dorrie Casey, Jeff Alguire, Steve Tell, and Tom Guild.
Preview: Wednesday, June 25- Pay What You Will ($5 minimum)
June 26, 27, 28, July 2, 3, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12 at 8:00 p.m.
June 29 & July 6 at 2:00 p.m.
NO PERFORMANCE ON FRIDAY, JULY 4TH!
Tickets: Friday, Saturday, Sunday: $16
Wednesday & Thursday cheap seats: $12
Reservations: (919) 240-5398 or by E-Mail
Website: Party Girl Productions
Common Ground Theatre Presents: The Wonderful Life of a Fly Who Couldn’t Fly with Special Guests TAFFY: Transactors for Families
Our July Theatre Performance Arts Camp Presentation
The Wonderful Life of a Fly Who Couldn’t Fly, adapted from a beautiful story written by Bo Lozoff, is about a fly who is born without wings. She takes a journey to discover her purpose in the world, and on the way meets all the bugs of the forest. In the end, she learns that everyone can make a difference in the world.
TAFFY will open for our presentation. Transactors for Families will perform on-the-spot scenes that have the perfect amount of silliness for young funny bones.
Saturday, July 19 at 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
Tickets: $5
Reservations: (919) 698-3870 or by E-mail
The Common Groundlings Present: The Window
Common Ground Theatre presents an uncommon night of improvisational theater featuring an all-star cast of Triangle area actors and improvisers.
The Common Groundlings (Jeffrey Alguire, Ryan Locante, Lamont Reed, Dan Sipp, Jane Allen Wilson and Annie Zipper) began working together in the summer of 2007 as a rehearsal group. After nearly a year together they are ready to unveil their labor of love, The Window, in a one night only performance that is unlike any improv show you’ve ever seen.
In The Window, all of the scenes take place in the real world we inhabit. The difference is that in these scenes people confess their darkest secrets. Characters say the kinds of things we all want to say but never do – opening the chest of secrets we carry around with us and dealing with the consequences. It’s a heightened version of our world where everyone is honest, everyone is vulnerable and nothing is off-limits. Some of the scenes will be funny. Some of them will not. If that sounds like your typical improv show, come see how different the world is seen through The Window.
Sunday, July 20th at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets: $8 (100% of the proceeds go to Common Ground Theatre)
Reservations: (919) 943-6373
FatMouth Improv
Silliness with a purpose! Short and longform improv based on audience suggestions—all in one evening.
Saturday, July 26th at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets: $7
Information: (919) 698-3870
Website: FatMouth Improv
Bare Theatre presents: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern is the fourth installment of Bare Theatre’s wildly popular Rogue Company, an annual conservatory program aimed at giving young artists the chance to perform onstage in a professional environment. Rogue Company members typically range in age from middle school to college students.
This play, which made Stoppard famous, takes a behind-the-scenes look at the lives of two minor characters who appear in William Shakespeare’s masterpiece, Hamlet. The two unwitting protagonists stumble through a world that has already been written, intersecting with bits of Shakespeare’s play, and they attempt to question a destiny that is ultimately final.
The two worlds in this production will be co-directed by Bare Theatre’s founders, Artistic Director Carmen-maria Mandley and Managing Director Heather J. Hackford. Mandley has studied comedia at the prestigious Dell’Arte International in California. Hackford is a certified member of the Society of American Fight Directors and both have received critical acclaim for directing Bare Theatre’s mainstage productions.
Bare Theatre is a Raleigh-based company that began its first full season in 2005 with a Rogue Company production of Titus Andronicus, which was awarded runner-up for the top ten shows in 2005 by the News & Observer and The Classical Voice of North Carolina. Bare Theatre has continued to receive critical acclaim, most recently with its production of Twelfth Night in 2007 being named one of the year’s ten best shows by the News & Observer and Othello in 2008, with one reviewer noting “As one young man said to his father at the play’s close, ‘This felt real, Dad’” (Kathy Justice, Independent Weekly, 20 February 2008).
July 30, 31, August 1 & 2 at 8:00 p.m.
August 2 & 3 at 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $15- General/ $7- Student/Senior/Military
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Reservations: (919)771-3281
Website: Bare Theatre