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In the Heights descends on DPAC
By Jessie Tang | February 24, 2011If you think going past 96th Street in Manhattan is foreign territory, you still haven’t gone north enough.
If you think going past 96th Street in Manhattan is foreign territory, you still haven’t gone north enough.
Presented by Duke Performances, this weekend marks the Abbey Theatre of Ireland’s first-ever performance in North Carolina and first U.S. tour in more than 10 years.
Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels in America soars under the able direction of Brendon Fox.
When dance instructor Andrea Woods Valdes moved from New York City to Durham, and took on the role of a professor at Duke in addition to her art, she knew it would take some adjusting.
A snapshot of a pastor holding his Bible in front of a Baptist church, a close-up of a medicine man from the Lakota tribe and a formal portrait of Dolly Parton—Sparkle & Twang: An American Musical...
What do we talk about these days when we talk about dancing? The perceived authenticity of Natalie Portman’s pirouettes in Black Swan? Seasonal fallout from countless productions of The Nutcracker?
Opened last night at the Nasher Museum of Art, The Jazz Loft Project: W. Eugene Smith in New York City, 1957-1965 is a remarkably realized recreation of a space and time.
Hank Willis Thomas has, in his short career, branded our collective memory with his stunning and evocative imagery. With a keen sensitivity to the impact of visuals and visual history, Thomas...
On a campus in love with sampled beats and mash-up booty-jams, a classically-trained pianist will perform this weekend with a country-folk singer-songwriter. This Friday and Saturday, songwriter...
Looking to volunteer abroad over the summer? It turns out that there are more options than just DukeEngage.
Haitian artist Edouard Duval-Carrie understands the challenge of summing up a breadth of knowledge into one visual whole.
Young Frankenstein may be an unorthodox pick for the holiday season’s entertainment, but it doesn’t take itself too seriously and is definitely worth seeing during its six-day stint in...
Forget Black Friday shopping—this weekend, the Durham Art Walk Holiday Market can serve everyone on your list, featuring handcrafted works of art from more than 200 artists.
This weekend at the Lincoln Theater in Raleigh, local record label Abstract Logix is hosting the inaugural New Universe Music Festival, a two-day event that features some of the most influential...
The semester-long, combined efforts of roughly 50 to 60 staff members, faculty, guest artists and students will culminate in this weekend’s annual November Dances.
For a group with such deliberate performances, Spoken Verb had quite the spontaneous beginning.
Fresh on the heels of its mostly sold-out fall show Into the Woods, Hoof ‘n’ Horn has entered its 75th season as the self-proclaimed oldest student-run theatrical group in the South.
This weekend, the pen is mightier than the mob.
Decreasing ticket sales may lead to a change in programming next year for Duke’s cultural and artistic presenter.
The theme may be blackness, but the genres are many: science fiction, slave narratives, a superhero trilogy.