Dance Gala Greensboro: The Vital Grace Project Kicks Off 17 Days Festival
Dance Gala Greensboro: The Vital Grace Project is Friday, September 20th at 7:00 pm in Aycock Auditorium. It's the opening night of the 17 Days Festival. Vital Grace Project director and University of NC at Greensboro Associate Professor Duane Cyrus danced with Martha Graham and Alvin Ailey before beginning Cyrus Art Production and choreographing his own works. In Dance Gala Greensboro, Duane hopes to engage a range of communities with works by Graham, Charles Moore and others. Images from his book Vital Grace: The Black Male Dancer will be projected on a large screen behind the dancers during the performance.
Daniel Craig Heads Back To Broadway With 'Betrayal'
The actor joins NPR's Robert Siegel to talk about an upcoming revival of the 1978 Harold Pinter play. In the show, directed by Mike Nichols, Craig is acting with his real-life wife, Rachel Weisz — but he says the two don't talk about it outside the office.
Bio Credits Manson's Terrible Rise To Right Place And Time
California parolee Charles Manson arrived in San Francisco in 1967, when the city was full of young waifs looking for a guru. In Manson, Jeff Guinn argues that if the cult leader had instead been paroled in a place like Nebraska, he likely would not have been so successful.
Wake Forest University Theatre Presents The Laramie Project
In October of 1997, Matthew Shepard, a gay student attending the University of Wyoming was beaten and left to die tied to a fence post in Laramie, Wyoming. In the murder's aftermath Techtonic Theatre Project traveled to Laramie to talk with townspeople. The interviews they conducted forms the basis of "The Laramie Project", a moving and insightful piece of theatre by Moises Kaufman. It's coming to the Mainstage Theatre on the campus of Wake Forest University September 20-29th with evening performances at 7:30 pm and a weekend matinee at 2:00 pm. The Laramie Project is directed by Department of Theatre and Dance Associate Professor Brook Davis. She was joined at WFDD by actors Ali Buckman and Mike Dempsey.
National Book Awards Look To Raise Profile ... And It's Not The First Time
When most people think "NBA," they think of the National Basketball Association. This year, in an attempt to maximize coverage, the National Book Foundation is releasing "long lists" of NBA nominees in different genre categories, one day at a time for a week.
Kitchen Time Machine: A Culinary Romp Through Soviet History
Author Anya Von Bremzen's new memoir, Mastering The Art of Soviet Cooking, is a tragic-comic history of a family and a nation as seen through the kitchen window. Everything we ate in the Soviet Union was grown ... by the party state," she says. "So, with the food, inevitably, you ingested the ideology."
Barnard President: Today's 'Wonder Women' Must Reframe Feminism
Many think of the feminist movement as a thing of the past, but Debora Spar says the battle isn't won yet. She tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross about the misinterpretation that got us where we are, and the need to improve support and pay for working women.
Locally Produced "Living in the Overlap" Documentary Tells of Love, Equality
Lennie Gerber and Pearl Berlin have shared a passion for social justice and for each other for 47 years. Today, the indelible spark of their love and commitment inspires many others particularly in the LGBT community as they continue to fight for their right to marry in North Carolina.
In Los Angeles, Showcasing A City That Might Have Been
A exhibit at L.A's Architecture and Design Museum focuses on eye-popping buildings and structures that were imagined for the City of Angels — but never actually built.