WFDD Triad Arts Archive: Triad Arts Weekend!

Triad Arts with David Ford

Listen to the program as broadcast on February 10, 2012

Triad Arts Weekend!

February 10, 2012

Back in 1948, A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Over 60 years later the play full of rich characters and their heart-rending interactions continues to challenge actors and audiences alike. The award-winning theatre department at North Carolina A&T State University is well up to the task with evening and matinee performances of Streetcar beginning Thursday, February 16 through the 26th in the Paul Robeson Theatre on the A&T campus in Greensboro.

The play is directed by Associate Professor of Theatre Miller Lucky Jr., and in part 2 of his interview TAUC host David Ford talks Streetcar with Miller in the Directr's chair.

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A Dozen Dresses: The Recollection is a fascinating multimedia work by local performance artist, photographer, writer, educator, and longtime Voices and Viewpoints commentator Diana Greene. Part memoir, part dream, part psychology, the show uses clothing as a vehicle for remembering key events in life. Diana explores the blurry intersection of the past and present through provocative photographs of and essays about her dresses from days gone by. Diana's exhibition was one night only on Thursday, February 9, but you can see and experience creative ongoing exhibits Out of Fashion and Margarita Cabrera's The Space in Between up close and personal at the always hip, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA). Both exhibits are FREE!

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The University of NC Greensboro boasts one of the finest theatre departments in the country. See it for yourself in Taylor Theatre on the UNCG campus with the UNCG production of Stage Door. It’s an American comedy about the exciting life in Theatre in the 1930s by Edna Ferber and George Kaufman. The play, produced by an all student cast and crew will run from February 10th through the 19th. UNCG actors John Dillon, Emily Gardenhire, and Phillip Wright dropped by WFDD to talk about it. They were joined by Professor and Head of the Theatre Department, and Betty Jean Jones Award winner for Excellence in the Teaching of American Theatre from the American Drama Society James Fisher.