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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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Black Ops Probes for Elusive Truth in The Typographer’s Dream, at Manbites
The Typographer’s Dream, by Adam Bock, plays at Manbites in a joint production with Black Ops, through Dec. 17, 2016. With Jessica Flemming as the Typographer (note type on her shirt), JoRose as the...
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Stars, Satellites and the Ferris Wheel of Love: BRIGHT HALF LIFE, at Manbites
Women in love: JoRose (Vicky) and Tamara Kissane (Erica), in Tanya Barfield’s BRIGHT HALF LIFE, as directed by Jules Odendahl-James. At Manbites Dog Theater through March 4, 2017. Photo: Alex Maness....
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Howard L. Craft’s New Play at Manbites: More Miraculous than Mundane
Durham playwright Howard L. Craft has leapt to a higher level of prowess with The Miraculous and the Mundane, his new two-act piece now in a workshop production at Durham’s Manbites Dog Theater, in...
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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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Turn, turn, turn
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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Summer Sisters return as BAD MOTHERS & NEGLECTFUL WIVES, at Manbites Dog
In Bad Mothers & Neglectful Wives, devised and presented by Summer Sisters, the struggle within the struggle: “Don’t dilute the message,” say the white women, pulling their black sister down. From...
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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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