
{"id":12690,"date":"2010-09-02T14:01:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T22:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=12690"},"modified":"2010-09-22T13:28:02","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T21:28:02","slug":"fall-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/09\/02\/fall-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time to sit down with your iCal or whatever and figure out how you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to fit all the events in a jam-packed fall. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve detailed a list of some of the special events and concerts ahead, especially the kind that quickly sell out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE ARTSCENTER<br \/>\n<\/strong>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:<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Sept. 11: The Monti \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The season opens with favorite storytellers George Singleton, David Gessner, Belle Boggs and Greg Taylor. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Sept. 15: Shelby Lynne with Charlie Mars \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Touring her new record, Tears, Lies, and Alibis<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Sept. 18: John Cowan \u00e2\u20ac\u201dNewgrass innovator with Jeff Autry on guitar and fiddler Shad Cobb<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Sept. 25: Gustafer Yellowgold \u00e2\u20ac\u201d an official \u00e2\u20ac\u0153SuperFun Show\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for kids hailed by the New York Times as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a cross between Yellow Submarine and Dr. Seuss\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Oct. 1: Transactors Suspense! \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The troupe explores horror, mystery, thriller and sci-fi film genres with musical accompaniment by Killer Filler<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Oct. 8-9: Minus Sound Research featuring The Moaners, The Kingsbury Manx, Free Electric State &#038; Birds and Arrows the first night and Americans in France, Shark Quest, North Elementary and Organos the next<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Oct. 15-17: Living Dead in Denmark \u00e2\u20ac\u201d performed by the Youth Conservatory, the play is a comic book fantasia that throws Shakespeare\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most beloved characters into an us-versus-zombies apocalyptic scenario<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Oct. 22: Dan Hicks &#038; The Hot Licks \u00e2\u20ac\u201d An American original and a snappy dresser at that<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Oct. 23: N.C. Songwriters Co-op Competition<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Nov. 6: PlaySlam! \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The eighth annual event \u00e2\u20ac\u0153where the audience calls the shots!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Nov. 18: Azure Ray \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Touring their fourth album, Drawing Down the Moon<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artscenterlive.org\/\">artscenterlive.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>CAROLINA PERFORMING ARTS<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The first half of our season is very much geared toward presenting some of the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s major musical contributors of the past few decades,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Emil Kang, CPA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s executive director, said in announcing the season. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the proof:<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Sept. 9: McCoy Tyner \u00e2\u20ac\u201d One of the true giants of jazz, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s him with Coltrane on A Love Supreme<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Sept. 15: Earl Scruggs \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Hey, another giant, this one of the banjo. Earl is performing with special guests The Red Clay Ramblers<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Sept. 24: Chick Corea \u00e2\u20ac\u201d fusion co-founder and jazz piano powerhouse <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Oct. 11: Hugh Masekela \u00e2\u20ac\u201d South African trumpeter and freedom fighter<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Nov. 5: Omara Portuondo  \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Cuban songstress from the Buena Vista Social Club <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Nov. 10-11: Sutra \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a collaboration between the monks of the Shaolin Temple and London dance producers Sadler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Wells <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/carolinaperformingarts.org\/\">carolinaperformingarts.org<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DUKE PERFORMANCES<\/p>\n<p>Another wide variety of events just across the Durham border, including:<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Sept. 17-19: \u00e2\u20ac\u201d three nights at the Hayti Heritage Center with Megafun, Fight the Big Bull and more, using Alan Lomax\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s seminal Sounds of the South anthology as source material<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Sept. 24: Loudon Wainwright III &#038; Friends \u00e2\u20ac\u201d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153High Wide and Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Sept. 25: Carolina Chocolate Drops\u00e2\u20ac\u201d another night of Carolina-themed tunes with the Drops and Joe Henry<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Oct. 20: Del McCoury Band with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Nov. 7: Allen Toussaint with special guests Nicholas Payton &#038; the Joe Krown Trio \u00e2\u20ac\u201d featuring Krown, Walter \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wolfman\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Washington and Russell Batiste<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dukeperformances.duke.edu\/\"><br \/>\ndukeperformances.duke.edu\/<\/a><br \/>\n<strong><\/p>\n<p>PLAYMAKERS REPERTORY COMPANY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The repertory company opens its 35th anniversary main stage season Sept. 22-Oct. 10 with William Shakespeare\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s romantic comedy As You Like It, which includes some of the Bard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 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.<br \/>\nAlso during this fall\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s main-stage season, PlayMakers presents the Tony Award-winning play Fences by August Wilson<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRC\u00c2\u00b2<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nPlayMakers PRC\u00c2\u00b2 series opens with Samuel Beckett\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s absurdist comedy Happy Days, Sept. 8-12. Not to be confused with the 1950s adventures of TV\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ArtsCenter; Carolina Performing Arts; Duke Performances; Playmakers Repertory Company<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12692,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12690\/revisions\/12692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}