Friday, November 15 at 1:00pm
A Duke Health exclusive 60-minute matinee performance of Last Ward that intertwines an abbreviated presentation with a conversation about the artists' creative process and the role of the arts in healthcare. A New York Times Critics’ Pick, Last Ward is a work of dance theatre that follows one man’s journey towards death in a hospital room.
February 28 - March 2
Bill’s 44th is an original comedic puppet show for grown-ups created by puppeteers Dorothy James & Andy Manjuck around one very worried leading man – Bill.
November 15 - November 16
A New York Times Critics’ Pick, Last Ward is a work of dance theatre that follows one man’s journey towards death in a hospital room. This highly visual evening length performance is performed in Arabic with English supertitles.
February 7 - February 8
See the play that shaped a theatre landscape in this rare revival. When it opened in 2005, Tim Crouch’s An Oak Tree changed the rules of the game: bringing in an actor who has neither seen nor read the play.
October 4, 2024 - October 5, 2024
Five actor-candidates vie for your real-time vote using charm, byzantine rules, audience polls – anything but the issues themselves. The play takes one of over 100 possible outcomes as the audience eliminates candidates one-by-one in this unforgettable theatrical experience.
Emi Hegarty is the winner of the 2024 Louis Sudler Prize, given every year to the graduating senior who has demonstrated the most distinguished record of excellence in performance or creation in the arts.
April 11, 2024 - April 12, 2024
Presented by “There is always a dark precursor that no one sees, and then the lightning bolt that illuminates, and there is the world.” Performed in the round, the second ...
October 24, 2023
“I write books in a difficult place, that is to say between music and silence. I think it’s something like that. We always miss something, this is forced, it is ...
January 25, 2024 - January 26, 2024
Presented by “A brilliant piece of dance theatre that’s honest and insightful about long-term relationships – and very funny” Lost Dog’s show reveals the real story of Romeo and Juliet. It ...
September 22, 2023 - September 24, 2023
Ocean Filibuster: a genre-crashing music theater experience set in a future Global Senate. When “Mr. Majority” proposes a bill to end the ocean as we know it, The Ocean arrives ...
April 3, 2024
Presented by In 2019, Cornell University started “Freedom on the Move,” a database of “runaway ads” from the United States’ early newspapers—names, dates, descriptions, rewards. The database notes that it ...
March 27, 2024 - March 28, 2024
Presented by “A delicious piece of theater… a playful, intimate experiment conducted by a master practitioner… utterly delightful” Bill Irwin can’t escape Samuel Beckett. He has spent a lifetime captivated by ...
Reynolds Industries Theater went dark in the beginning of fall semester 2022 for replacement of its HVAC system. Thanks to support from Duke Arts, Duke Facilities Management, Duke Student Affairs, and the efforts of the venue and production management team, it has come roaring back to life. The refreshed theater boasts many improvements, and a new Duke blue main curtain is ready to be drawn for the upcoming musical Rent, a production by Duke's Theater Studies Department in collaboration with Hoof ‘n’ Horn.
Pursue an acting curriculum full-time for the first time at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City.
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Branching into theater with introductory workshops taught by professional acting coaches in Los Angeles.
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A bilingual screenplay that tackles the issue of immigration—featuring narratives of refugees from Ukraine and Russia—was composed within a four-week summer intensive workshop at the Pargue Film School.
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Felwine Sarr, Anne-Marie Bryan Distinguished Professor of Romance Studies at Duke, has been described in various biographies as a public intellectual, humanist, philosopher, economist, musician, playwright and poet. His face and his distinguished work will soon become more familiar to the community with the production of two of his plays by Duke Performances.
Theater major Samantha Streit ’22 reflects on her senior project, a one-woman show titled This Green Plot Shall Be Our Stage, which she will perform April 14–16 at the Duke Gardens. The show centers on the idea that nature—in particular, the forest—acts as a metaphorical place of potential, freedom, and magic in Shakespeare’s works.
After nearly two years of virtual performances, live theater has made its long-awaited return to both Broadway and Duke’s campus. Samantha Streit ‘22, who was part of the cast of Duke Theater Studies’ Fall Mainstage Show Golem, interviews Duke alumni and faculty about their thoughts on producing theater during the pandemic and what the future holds for live performances.
In a world where comic book characters live side by side with real people, Malachi Washington works to free comics cast in prejudice bodies while Bob McCay seeks to revive his father's comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland. What follows is a compelling story of reckoning, healing, and examining the racist legacy of comics and animation, told through various forms of puppetry.
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On April 15, 17 and 18, Duke Theater Studies will present its spring mainstage production, Medea. Directed by senior María Zurita Ontiveros and set designed by senior Ash Jeffers, Medea is the first mainstage Theater Studies has produced with students at its helm. The show will be performed in person and live streamed to virtual audiences.
I wrote a full-length play titled God's Last Name, a piece written for one actor and a series of recorded voices. The play tells the story of Huck and Amy, two sisters who find themselves driving a mysterious (and possibly dangerous?) hitchhiker to St. Louis.
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Hoof 'n' Horn invites submissions to a reinvented audition process and fall production!
Torry Bend & Howard L. Craft Dreaming WORLD PREMIERE: FRI, NOV 22 – SUN, NOV 24, 2019 Award-winning puppet artist and Associate Professor of Theater Studies at Duke, Torry Bend, ...
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Rude Mechs Now Now Oh Now DUKE PERFORMANCES PREMIERE: WED, SEP 24 – SUN, SEP 27, 2014 Internationally celebrated Austin, Texas theater collective Rude Mechs have been delighting audiences with ...
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Fiasco Theater Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure DUKE PERFORMANCES PREMIERE: TUE, JAN 31-SUN, FEB 19, 2012 Founded in 2007, this six-person company, the Fiasco Theater, is renowned for its dynamic, actor-focused ...
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Lee Breuer & Mabou Mines The Glass Menagerie DUKE PERFORMANCES PREMIERE: SUN, FEB 27, 2011 The “most incendiary” experimental theater company of the past half-century (The New York Times), Mabou ...
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John Supko, Bill Seaman, Jim Findlay & Lorelei Ensemble the_oper& WORLD PREMIERE: THU, MAR 8 – SAT, MAR 10, 2018 Is technology making or breaking our world? That question is ...
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Hoi Polloi Republic DUKE PERFORMANCES PREMIERE: THU, FEB 20-SAT, MAR 1, 2014 Brooklyn theater company Hoi Polloi creates full-throttle theatrical experiences that look at how Americans come together and how ...
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The Civilians & Ethan Lipton School Project DUKE PERFORMANCES PREMIERE: WED, OCT 4, 2017FIRST WORK-IN-PROGRESS SHOWING: SAT, JAN 28, 2017 The Civilians, Duke Performances Artists-in-Residence and practitioners of investigative theater, ...
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Bombadil & Torry Bend Love’s Infrastructure DUKE PERFORMANCES PREMIERE: FRI, JAN 24 – SUN, JAN 26, 2014 Durham’s Bombadil made their name on the local and national scenes playing ambitious ...
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Talya Klein, who taught "Acting for the Camera" this spring, shares the class's final project, an original feature filmed titled "EMERGENCY CONTACTS" set in 2030 during a new, fictional pandemic that explores and incorporates present experiences during the coronavirus crisis.
Duke faculty teaching visual arts, music, and theater share how they navigated the move to online teaching. It wasn’t easy. Supplies were mailed, collaborative projects were reinvented. Transformations and solutions discovered this spring have expanded the teaching repertoire—even as we look forward to safely returning to studio and stage.
Ira Knight shares a performance of "From Myth To Man: Martin Luther King, An Interpretation," as recorded live at the Ruby earlier this year, as a reminder of our shared humanity to create better days ahead.
Five questions for Tyler Edwards (Class of 2022), biology major and producer for Hoof 'n' Horn's The Wiz, the first production with an all-black cast and a sensory friendly performance.
I spent the summer studying with the New York Film Academy in Paris, France. There, I got the chance to spend five days a week learning on-camera acting technique. After class and on weekends I acted in students' films, all in the place where cinema was born.
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The Theatermakers Summer Intensive in directing is a highly competitive training program at the National Theater Institute. It exposes four directors every year to innovative and challenging techniques in directing, script analysis, staging and composition as they work with professional directors, actors and playwrights.
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Florian is the managing director of the American Ballet Theatre Studio Company.
We look back at 10 years of the Me Too Monologues at Duke. "It is a communal experience and I think that’s the core of what it means,” says Anne Delmedico, this year's producer. "No matter what challenges you’re facing—whether you relate to the challenges on the stage or not—you are not alone."
“This show is such a beautiful showcase of a culture that is often misrepresented,” says Maria Zurita-Ontiveros, a Duke Sophomore and Director of Hoof ‘n’ Horn’s Spring 2019 production of In The Heights. Duke Arts sits down with Maria and lead cast member, Gustavo Andrade, to learn more about how this special show celebrates Latinx diversity and empowers individuals to proudly represent the communities they call home.
1600 Vine: The Musical is an original multimedia theatrical project loosely based on a Los Angeles apartment complex that is home to social media’s trendiest celebrities.
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Chuck Catotti retires from Duke University this week after a year as director of the Rubenstein Arts Center and after 33 years in theater and box office management for venues across campus.
Brittany Halberstadt (Class of 2019) shares her journey from becoming a production assistant for The Lion King as a first-year student to a Broadway League intern and a Tony Awards seat filler this past summer.
Students in a Theater Studies production class work with Torry Bend to adapt a beautiful but tainted masterpiece for the puppet stage.
The 2016 winner of Duke's premier undergraduate arts award, the Sudler Prize, makes theater of, by, and for the community.
Some days he’s an artist who teaches and some days he’s a teacher who makes art, but either way, Professor Jeff Storer thinks it is a happy advantage that he can be both—for him and his students.