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Fall Preview

Posted on September 2, 2010September 22, 2010 by Staff

Time to sit down with your iCal or whatever and figure out how you’re going to fit all the events in a jam-packed fall. We’ve detailed a list of some of the special events and concerts ahead, especially the kind that quickly sell out.

THE ARTSCENTER
Grammy Award-winner Shelby Lynne kicks off the fall season, which also features the return of The Monti; an eerie Transactors show; and a play with Puck, Ophelia and zombies. Highlights include:

• Sept. 11: The Monti — The season opens with favorite storytellers George Singleton, David Gessner, Belle Boggs and Greg Taylor.

• Sept. 15: Shelby Lynne with Charlie Mars — Touring her new record, Tears, Lies, and Alibis

• Sept. 18: John Cowan —Newgrass innovator with Jeff Autry on guitar and fiddler Shad Cobb

• Sept. 25: Gustafer Yellowgold — an official “SuperFun Show” for kids hailed by the New York Times as “a cross between Yellow Submarine and Dr. Seuss”

• Oct. 1: Transactors Suspense! — The troupe explores horror, mystery, thriller and sci-fi film genres with musical accompaniment by Killer Filler

• Oct. 8-9: Minus Sound Research featuring The Moaners, The Kingsbury Manx, Free Electric State & Birds and Arrows the first night and Americans in France, Shark Quest, North Elementary and Organos the next

• Oct. 15-17: Living Dead in Denmark — performed by the Youth Conservatory, the play is a comic book fantasia that throws Shakespeare’s most beloved characters into an us-versus-zombies apocalyptic scenario

• Oct. 22: Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks — An American original and a snappy dresser at that

• Oct. 23: N.C. Songwriters Co-op Competition

• Nov. 6: PlaySlam! — The eighth annual event “where the audience calls the shots!”

• Nov. 18: Azure Ray — Touring their fourth album, Drawing Down the Moon

artscenterlive.org

CAROLINA PERFORMING ARTS

“The first half of our season is very much geared toward presenting some of the world’s major musical contributors of the past few decades,” Emil Kang, CPA’s executive director, said in announcing the season. Here’s the proof:

• Sept. 9: McCoy Tyner — One of the true giants of jazz, that’s him with Coltrane on A Love Supreme

• Sept. 15: Earl Scruggs — Hey, another giant, this one of the banjo. Earl is performing with special guests The Red Clay Ramblers

• Sept. 24: Chick Corea — fusion co-founder and jazz piano powerhouse

• Oct. 11: Hugh Masekela — South African trumpeter and freedom fighter

• Nov. 5: Omara Portuondo — Cuban songstress from the Buena Vista Social Club

• Nov. 10-11: Sutra — a collaboration between the monks of the Shaolin Temple and London dance producers Sadler’s Wells

carolinaperformingarts.org

DUKE PERFORMANCES

Another wide variety of events just across the Durham border, including:

• Sept. 17-19: — three nights at the Hayti Heritage Center with Megafun, Fight the Big Bull and more, using Alan Lomax’s seminal Sounds of the South anthology as source material

• Sept. 24: Loudon Wainwright III & Friends — “High Wide and Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project”

• Sept. 25: Carolina Chocolate Drops— another night of Carolina-themed tunes with the Drops and Joe Henry

• Oct. 20: Del McCoury Band with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band

• Nov. 7: Allen Toussaint with special guests Nicholas Payton & the Joe Krown Trio — featuring Krown, Walter “Wolfman” Washington and Russell Batiste

dukeperformances.duke.edu/

PLAYMAKERS REPERTORY COMPANY

The repertory company opens its 35th anniversary main stage season Sept. 22-Oct. 10 with William Shakespeare’s romantic comedy As You Like It, which includes some of the Bard’s most beloved characters in a charming tale of love at first sight, mix-ups, mistaken identities and comedy high and low. PlayMakers producing artistic director Joseph Haj directs the show.
Also during this fall’s main-stage season, PlayMakers presents the Tony Award-winning play Fences by August Wilson

PRC²

PlayMakers PRC² series opens with Samuel Beckett’s absurdist comedy Happy Days, Sept. 8-12. Not to be confused with the 1950s adventures of TV’s Richie, Potsie and the Fonz, Happy Days is the story of Winnie, a woman inexplicably buried to her waist in a large and mounting mound of earth, and her insistence, even as the mound begins to consume her, that today is going to be a good day. Longtime PlayMakers company members Julie Fishell and Ray Dooley play Winnie and her husband, Willie.

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