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Artists turn on the power at Manbites for THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM
It is always a special treat to see theater work made by talented, skilled artists who have generated their synergy not in just this production, but in many plays over years, even decades. In the...
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Ivey on Ice Skates, and Other Pleasures in THE HOMOSEXUALS at Manbites
UPDATE: DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND, THE RUN OF THIS SHOW HAS BEEN EXTENDED THROUGH MAY 25. PLAYWRIGHT PHILIP DAWKINS WILL BE PRESENT FOR A POST-SHOW CONVERSATION WITH DIRECTOR JEFF STORER ON FRIDAY, MAY 25....
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COCK: a recent play on the perennial theme of the wandering rooster
The program for COCK, British author Mike Bartlett’s 2009 play that ends its run at Manbites Dog Theater Oct. 19, includes a verse from a song by the late great Willie Dixon that gets right to the...
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Our Super-Heroes, Now Working Magic at Manbites Dog Theater
Marcia Edmundson, Lakeisha Coffey, Thaddaeus Edwards, and Mary Guthrie as The Fathom Town Enforcers, fundraising (or not) from their submarine lair, in SPIRITS TO ENFORCE, now playing at Manbites Dog...
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I AND YOU sounds its “barbaric yawp” at Manbites Dog
Barbaric yawp: Natalie Izlar and Gerald Jones III in I AND YOU, at Manbites Dog Theater.Photo: Alan Dehmer. Now playing at Manbites Dog Theater, Lauren Gunderson’s 2013 prize-winning I AND YOU,...
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What Will We Remember After the Meltdown? Manbites Dog Presents MR. BURNS, A...
(L-R) Sam (Geraud Staton), Jenny (Lormarev Jones), Matt (Michael Brocki), and Colleen (Carly Prentis Jones) rehearse for some primetime historical re-enactment. Photo: Ed Hunt. I may be the worst...
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You Don’t Know the Troubles I Seen: brownsville song (b-side for tray), at...
Every one has troubles and sorrows, and generally it is difficult to find a perspective where your own don’t look like the biggest, worst ones. The current show at Manbites Dog may be able to help you...
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Manbites Dog Plays The Trump Card
Carl Martin in The Trump Card, adapted from the monologue by Mike Daisey. Photo: Manbites Dog Theater. Manbites Dog Theater is doing it again: currently they are presenting a very fresh production of...
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Just Passing Through: The Open House, at Manbites Dog Theater
L TO R: J Evarts, Matthew Hager, Marcia Edmundson, Michael Brocki, and Michael Foley as Father, in THE OPEN HOUSE by Will Eno. Directed by Jeff Storer, at Manbites Dog Theater October 27 – November 12,...
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Aides-mémoire: MARJORIE PRIME, at Manbites Dog Theater
Jon (Michael Brocki) with his mother-in-law Marjorie (Marcia Edmunson), who is losing her memory in Jordan Harrison’s MARJORIE PRIME, directed at Durham’s Manbites Dog Theater by Jeff Storer. Through...
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And now the season is September, and “the days dwindle down.” It’s a fresh theater season–but 2017-2018 will be imbued with the sense of an ending. Manbites Dog Theater–that bold upstart, that...
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Big Dog Shows Up On Main Street: Manbites Dog Theater, in the beginning
The Dog Arrives. Fall, 1987, in the former shoe store at 343 West Main Street, Durham, NC. From left: Barbara Dickinson, Jeff Storer, Patricia Esperon, and Connie Watkins, rehearsing Manbites Dog...
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LIFE SUCKS. Aaron Posner’s touchingly revised Chekhov at Manbites Dog Theater
Thaddaeus Edwards as Uncle Vanya, Rhetta Greene as Babs, and Jock Brocki as Dr. Aster, with Faye Goodwin as Sonia and Lakeisha Coffey as Pickles, in Manbites Dog’s new production of Aaron Posner’s LIFE...
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I Say Goodbye, You Say Hello: The Last Stage Show at Manbites Dog Theater
Derrick Ivey as Guy, in Will Eno’s Wakey, Wakey, directed by Jeff Storer, in Manbites Dog Theater’s final production. Photo: Alan Dehmer. If you are looking for “balanced” criticism, look somewhere...
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