A Pulitzer Prize-winner straight from Broadway, the world premiere of a new adaptation of a timeless classic and a tour de force musical by Stephen Sondheim will highlight the six-play 2015-2016 main-stage season from PlayMakers Repertory Company.
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Jakelin Bonilla, a 2012 alumna, is a recipient of the 2015 Luce Scholars Program fellowship.
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StreetSigns’ 2014-2015 season concludes with a production of Trojan Barbie by Christine Evans, directed by StreetSigns Artistic Director, Joseph Megel. This time-bending, car-crash collision of the past and present, based on Euripides’ Trojan Women, challenges our notions of gender, war (both ancient and modern), and politics. Past and present violently collide as the dreams of
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Through Media and the Movement, assistant professor Seth Kotch hopes to give a glimpse into the experiences of everyday people and activists from the civil rights era. He is creating a digital archive of broadcasts from black activist radio stations from the 1960s and ’70s.
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The mayors and municipal staffs of five of America’s historic black towns will come to campus April 6-7 for a symposium with UNC scholars that will address legal and government issues, oral history collection, entrepreneurship and cultural tourism, archive development and preservation, foodways and community health.
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Joseph Haj, producing artistic director of PlayMakers Repertory Company at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named the next artistic director of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minn. He will begin the position in July.
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(NOTE: THE TIME OF THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN MOVED UP TO 6:45 P.M.) University of Toronto professor emeritus of history Modris Eksteins will discuss the legacy of World War I in a free public lecture Feb. 25 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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In the early 2000s, Kenan Professor of English Alan Shapiro received an unusual job offer from Dean Smith.
The ‘complete picture’: The Institute for the Arts and Humanities remembers Dean Smith Read More »
The core members of global performance troupe La Pocha Nostra will come together on the Carolina campus for a one-week intensive residency to produce a new work-in-progress.They will debut the piece Feb. 20 at 8 p.m. in Swain Hall. The performance, presented by the department of communication studies in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences,
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PlayMakers Repertory Company presents Henrik Ibsen’s dramatic masterpiece “An Enemy of the People,” in a searing adaptation by Arthur Miller, Feb. 25 through March 15. PlayMakers is the professional theater in residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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