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 Tony-nominated comedy opens PlayMakers mainstage season
Ackland showcases modern masters
Art, films, lectures,
history to highlight
fall at Stone Center
Tony-nominated comedy opens PlayMakers mainstage season
PlayMakers Repertory Company kicks off another mainstage
season Sept. 21–Oct. 9 with Sarah Ruhl’s Tony-nominated comedy “In the
Next Room (or the vibrator play).”
“In the Next Room,” Ruhl’s Broadway debut, was a 2010 Tony
Award nominee for best play, as well as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in
drama. Playwright Ruhl was honored in 2006 with a MacArthur Fellowship.
The story, an insightful tale of desire, frustration and
sympathy, and understanding between the sexes, is inspired by historic fact.
“In the Next Room” is written with the sensibility of a play by George Bernard
Shaw or Oscar Wilde, and set in the same period with the lovely costumes and
decorations of that era, while seen through the lyrical lens of one of
America’s finest modern playwrights.
Show times will be 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays,
2 p.m. on Oct. 1, and 2 p.m. Sundays. For a complete schedule, more information
and to purchase tickets, call 962-PLAY (7529) or visit www.playmakersrep.org.
Tickets are $10 to $45.
Ackland showcases modern masters
Gathered from the private collections of more than 60
alumni, “Carolina Collects: 150 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art from
Alumni Collections” brings together nearly 90 hidden treasures by some of the
most renowned artists of the modern era. From Claude Monet to Alexander Calder,
from Louise Bourgeois to Yayoi Kusama, “Carolina Collects” offers an
extraordinary overview of art of the past
150 years through paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and sculptures, many
of which have rarely been exhibited. It will be on display through Dec. 4.
As
part of its programming, Amanda Hughes, the Ackland’s director of external
affairs, will speak with collector Robert Forbes Sept. 16 at 6 p.m. in a
conversation about collecting. To learn more, see http://bit.ly/mWXMVy.
Right,
Claude Monet, “The Seine at Argenteuil,” 1877, oil on canvas, from the
collection of Julian H. Robertson Jr.
Art, films, lectures,
history to highlight
fall at Stone Center
An exhibition of 54 photos, cartoons and political posters –
illustrating how American and German history became intertwined in the struggle
for civil rights – will be on display through
Oct. 28 at the Stone Center’s Robert and Sallie Brown Gallery and Museum.
“The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs and Germany”
traces the encounter between African Americans and Germany from the mid-1930s
through the 1970s. It depicts how African Americans’ demands for civil rights
at home and abroad were framed in reference to the struggle against Nazi
Germany, then played out in occupied Cold War West and East Germany.
To learn more about the center’s fall programs, see sonjahaynesstonectr.unc.edu.
Above, Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy at the
Berlin Wall in West Germany. Photo by Landesarchiv Berlin. |
