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A & E

Last weekend we attended a play, Black Pearl Sings, at Triad Stage.  Before the play had concluded my thoughts were entangled in conflict.  The social sentiments characterized in the stage play were poignant and created the kind of empathetic response in the audience that they were designed to do; however, a fundamental element of the [...]

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The Night Of The Iguana

After spending a week hiking trails along the Blue Ridge Parkway I wasn’t certain that trading the rugged landscape of western North Carolina for the roiling emotional terrain of Tennessee Williams.  Too many recent experiences with Triad Stage productions have fallen well below the quality of performances I’d come to expect since becoming a season [...]

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Pirated

Sadly, Sunday night’s performance of Bloody Blackbeard was one of the least interesting productions I have seen at Triad Stage in quite some time. I refrain from using the term “worst performance” because more goes into the finished product of a play than what is written by the playwright; indeed, several actors gave compelling [...]

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Redoubtable

Over the last two years seeds of doubt regarding our status as season ticket holders to Triad Stage, a local professional theater, had germinated more frequently into an obnoxious variety of weed following what I felt were disappointing performances. While there was always an aspect of each performance that in itself was exceptional, i.e., [...]

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