This painting is entitled “Cow Now.” It’s by Nathalie Worthington, whose studio is located in the Lost Corner region of Chatham County. Worthington is one of several artists featured as part of the Local Farms/Local Art exhibit at Panzanella in celebration of the Piedmont Farm Tour. The juried show opened on April 1 and runs [...]
At some point, the frenzy of basketball that engulfs the end of March and early April fades and thousands of residents will venture away from the HighDef glow long enough to find that they are surrounded by the riot of color that is this town in spring.
The ArtsCenter
Black Poetry: Performance Poetry Meets Theater
April 4-6, 8pm, 3pm Sunday. $10, $8 Friends, $7 students
April in Paris (of the Piedmont) with Transactors Improve Co.
April 11, 8pm. $14, $12 Friends, $8 students
Pittsboro’s First Sunday celebration is April 6 from 12 to 4 p.m. on Hillsboro Street. This month’s music will be provided by The Haw River String Band on the circle from 1 to 3 p.m. Arts and craft vendors will line the streets selling their work and local galleries and shops are open. Food will [...]
PlayMakers Repertory will put on nine plays embodying everything from Shakespearean adventure to coping with HIV/AIDS in its 2008-2009 season. It starts with Shakespeare’s Pericles, from September 24 until October 12. Tanya Barfield then explores African-American identity in Blue Door from October 22 until November 9.
Rick Cummins and John Scoullar’s adaptation of Antoine de [...]
Transactors Improv will celebrate “April in Paris (of the Piedmont)” at The ArtsCenter on Friday, April 11 at 8 p.m. The improvised show’s themes are life in Carrboro and spring. The performers will ask the audience to suggest parts of the unscripted performance. Special musical guest guitarist Bryon Settle will also perform with the group.
Tickets [...]
“Bolshoi” is Russian for “grand,” and it’s the perfect word to describe the upcoming 2008-2009 Carolina Performing Arts Series. The series will present 31 programs in 42 performances in its biggest season yet, including the regional debut of “Swan Lake” by Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet, performances by the Kirov Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic and the [...]
Carrboro
The ArtsCenter
Center Gallery: ArtsCenter Student Show April 3-29, reception 6-9 p.m. East End Gallery: Elements, the fifth annual Community Art Project.
The Beehive
Matt Vooris- Dinosaurs, Drums, and You! Live storytelling and performance of Drumheller Dinosaur Dance, with dancing and percussion. Performances at 6:30, 7:30 and 8:30, Friday April 11.
McIntyre’s Fine Books
Fearrington Village Center, Pittsboro
542-3030
fearrington.com/village/mcintyres.asp
April 10, 3-5pm—Lynne Rossetto Kasper discusses her cookbook The Splendid Table’s How To Eat Supper.
April 12, 11am—Virginia Ironside reads from her book No! I Don’t Want to Join a Book Club.
By Erica Eisdorfer
Recently, I made the mistake of giving my 11-year-old daughter a copy of The Children’s Miscellany by Matthew Morgan. Mistake? I jest. It wasn’t really a mistake: It’s just that now she’s delighted to deliver such tidbits as, “Mom, a billion seconds ago you were a child.” This, as I’m grappling with whether [...]
4/2-20
Amadeus
PlayMakers Repertory
The award-winning tale of Mozart and the court composer Salieri is a sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, brilliant examination of a man at war with his god.
4/4
Howlin Rain
Local 506
Mellow rockers perform with Nightstick and Stratocrusier. 9pm, $10
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