Triad Stage in the News
December 4, 2008
Sedaris' holiday hell comes to life again
by Joe Scott
GoTriad from the Greensboro News & Record
A department store "Santa" who refuses to break character, "elf" co-workers who used to work on TV soap operas and a kid encouraged by his parent to urinate on an indoor winter wonderland? It's all in a day's work for Crumpet, the main character of "The Santaland Diaries."
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November 26, 2008
Holiday traditions continue at Triad Stage
by Brian Rose
Burlington Times-News
The Christmas season invokes different feelings for different people. Some folks focus on the birth of Jesus, while others concentrate on shopping and gifts and Santa Claus. Triad Stage is offering something for each of those crowds this year with productions of David Sedaris' "Santaland Diaries" and Preston Lane's "Beautiful Star: An Appalachian Nativity."
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November 6, 2008
Triad Stage's scene stealer
by Dawn Decwikiel-Kane
Greensboro News & Record
Lil' Mo didn't aim for star status. Or maybe he did. He won't say. Four months ago, Lil' Mo was an abandoned kitten perhaps five weeks old, wanting little more than a good home.
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November 2008
Making Spirits Bright - See a Show: 'Beautiful Star' at Triad Stage
by Michael Breedlove
Greensboro Monthly
Preston Lane, Artistic Director at Triad Stage, is a strong believer in simplicity when it comes to Christmas. That’s why the playwright went out of his way to ensure his holiday production, Beautiful Star, stayed refreshingly simple.“We like to think of the play as sort of the antidote to all the extravagance we see around the holidays,” Lane says.
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October 28, 2008
Arts group pays honor to two for contributions
by Dawn Decwikiel-Kane
Greensboro News & Record
Preston Lane makes art. Pam Allen helps art get made. The United Arts Council of Greater Greensboro honored both for their contributions to the local arts scene at its annual Vanguard Society celebration Monday night at the Proximity Hotel.
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October 16, 2008
Triad Stage is the Triad's "Best Live Theater" Again!
GoTriad from the Greensboro News & Record
Greensboro's GoTriad readers vote Triad Stage "Best Live Theater" in the 2008 Readers' Choice Awards. That's six years in a row!
Read the full list of winners.
October 16, 2008
Triad Stage and Black Theatre: The A&T Connection
by Frank O'Neill
Carolina Peacemaker
As part of a diverse theatre community, Greensboro’s Triad Stage (TS) has made a conscientious effort to promote Black theatre.
Productions include: Lynn Nottage’s “Crumbs from the Table of Joy” in Feb. 2002, the stage adaptation of Ernest Gaines’ “A Lesson before Dying” for the 2002 “One City, One Book” project, and August Wilson’s “Seven Guitars” with N.C. A&T, Feb., 2004. This past May TS staged Dr. Endesha Mae Holland’s “From the Mississippi Delta: A Memoir,” and this coming January will see the opening of “Black Pearl Sings.”
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October 15, 2008
Witchy women, mortal men
by Brian Rose
Burlington Times-News
When selecting the plays for this year's "Season of Spirit," Triad Stage artistic director Preston Lane knew he should include something funny. Laughter, he said, is what brought to mind John Van Druten's "Bell, Book and Candle."
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September 25, 2008
Meet an Artist: Lee Spencer
by Joe Scott
GoTriad from the Greensboro News & Record
ON PLAYING DRACULA
So many people already have such a preconceived notion of Dracula. It can be very intimidating, but you can't really shy away from that.
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September 3, 2008
Night of the New Iguana
by Amy Kingsley
Yes! Weekly
“Didn’t we have real iguanas in Dallas?” “Yes!” says Preston Lane. “And they were nightmares. They hissed, they bit, they pooed. The actor who had to bring them on stage, his arms were covered in scratches, but the minute they got under the stage lights, they thought it was the sun and they completely stopped moving.”
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August 27, 2008
One wild night
by Brian Rose
Burlington Times-News
A new season brings a new theme at Triad Stage, and this time around, it’s all about spirit. After a year of exploring passionate plays such as Anthony Shaffer’s “Sleuth” and George Bernard Shaw’s “Mrs. Warren’s Profession,” the downtown Greensboro theater begins its quest for spirit with Tennessee Williams’ “The Night of the Iguana.”
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July 20, 2008
Creative Collaboration
by Ken Keuffel
Winston-Salem Journal
When Preston Lane travels to the mountains of Western North Carolina this week, he'll be wearing two hats. One hat is well-known to area theater fans. Lane first put it on in 2002 when he became the founding artistic director of Triad Stage in Greensboro. He is directing a Triad Stage production of Doubt that will be staged Thursday and Friday in Valborg Theatre at Appalachian State University, as part of An Appalachian Summer Festival in Boone.
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June 10, 2008
Swashbucklers, swordsmen come to hook Greensboro
by Amy Kingsley
Yes! Weekly
There’s a pirate ship buried hatch-deep in sand at Triad Stage. The Queen Anne’s Revenge, the vessel belonging to the outlaw Blackbeard, has crashed ashore on Ocracoke Island, spilling its crew of peg-legged scalawags onto the stage. For most of the men, Ocracoke - and North Carolina - are foreign soil. But for at least three actors playing more than half a dozen characters, the crash brings them back to home turf in Greensboro.
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June 8, 2008
A Portrait of a Pirate: Artistic director of Triad Stage and area musician create a large-cast production about the legendary Blackbeard
by Mary Martin-Niepold
Winston-Salem Journal
Imagine a large man with thick black hair and clusters of hemp flaming from his long hair and beard. Some, they say, shuddered at the mere sight of him. Even the flag on his pirate ship could prompt terror.
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June 8, 2008
Infamous Carolina Rogue, Bloody Blackbeard, Sings in New Musical June 8-July 6
by Kenneth Jones
Playbill.com
Following its premieres of two Appalachian mountain-set musicals in earlier seasons, Triad Stage in Greensboro, NC, draws on lore of the Carolina coast for its new homegrown musical, Bloody Blackbeard, beginning previews June 8.
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June 7, 2008
Actor’s Pirate Risks It All
by Joe Scott
GoTriad from the Greensboro News & Record
Clean-shaven actor Mark David Watson has all of Blackbeard’s height and none of his facial hair. For the next month, the 6-foot-2-inch thespian will have one of the best jobs in the world. He’ll be playing the lead pirate in Triad Stage’s original musical “Bloody Blackbeard.”
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June 6, 2008
Triad Stage gives Blackbeard some bloody new tales to tell
by Brian Rose
Burlington Times-News
Preston Lane and Laurelyn Dossett made a pact with each other at the end of their last production. “We went in with the notion of no banjos and no bibles,” Lane joked in a recent interview.
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June 5, 2008
Triad Stage Presents Epic
by Joe Scott
GoTriad from the Greensboro News & Record
He robbed merchant ships belonging to England, Spain and France. He had about 14 wives, and according to legend, he killed them all. He braided cannon fuses into his hair and lit them during battle so smoke would billow from his head like a demon.
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June 2008
The Swashbuckling Adventures of Preston and Laurelyn
by Bill Cissna
Greensboro Monthly
On a busy day in mid-April, Preston Lane and Laurelyn Dossett sit down at Triad Stage’s new third-floor UpStage Cabaret and try to explain why their third play-and-music collaboration, Bloody Blackbeard, has them a little worried.
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Reviews
November 26, 2008
A dispatch from Santaland on stage
Theatre Review by Keith Barber
YES! Weekly
Who among us hasn’t felt at some point in our lives just a little bit cynical about the holiday season? Even Charlie Brown railed against the commercialism of Christmas in Charles Schulz’s animated masterwork, A Charlie Brown Christmas.
Read the full review.
October 31, 2008
Review of Triad Stage’s newest play, 'Bell, Book and Candle'
Theatre Review by Joe Scott
Greensboro News & Record
In his note for Triad Stage’s newest play, “Bell, Book and Candle,” director John Feltch points out that this story about a community of witches and warlocks hiding in plain sight is an apt metaphor for the gay community circa 1950.
Read the full review.
September 13, 2008
Actors, setting excel in "Iguana"
Theatre Review by Joe Scott
Greensboro
News & Record
With "The Night of the Iguana," director Preston Lane and his team at Triad Stage put me in a rare predicament. They put me in the position of having to ask myself which part is better about their play, the acting or the show's production values.
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June 16, 2008
“Blackbeard” unleashes terror at Triad Stage
Theatre Review by Brian Rose
Burlington Times-News
Triad Stage is calling “Bloody Blackbeard” one of its biggest productions ever, and after seeing the play, it’s hard to argue with that assessment.
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June 14, 2008
Ahoy: “Blackbeard” Serves Up Pageantry
Theatre review by Mary Martin-Niepold
Winston-Salem Journal
He terrifies those around him and loves drawing blood as much as stealing treasure and conquering women. He is Blackbeard, the stuff of pirate legend, and the star of Triad Stage’s most recent production, Bloody Blackbeard, which opened Thursday night in Greensboro.
Read the full review.
Podcasts
November 18, 2008
“Triad Arts Up Close” - The Santaland Diaries
With host Bradley George
WFDD 88.5 FM
September 24, 2008
“The State of Things” - Dracula
With host Frank Stasio
WUNC North Carolina Public Radio 91.5 FM
September 1, 2008
“Triad Arts Up Close” - The Night of the Iguana
With host Bradley George
WFDD 88.5 FM
June 11, 2008
“The State of Things” - Bloody Blackbeard
With host Eric Hodge
WUNC North Carolina Public Radio 91.5 FM
June 4, 2008
“Triad Arts Up Close” - Bloody Blackbeard
With host Bradley George
WFDD 88.5 FM
Press Releases
November 10, 2008
Triad Stage's Family Friendly Holiday Hit Beautiful Star: An Appalachian Nativity Returns for a Third Season, November 28 – December 21, 2008
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November 4, 2008
David Sedaris’ irreverant The Santaland Diaries skewers the holidays at Triad Stage’s UpStage Cabaret, November 20 – December 20, 2008
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September 29, 2008
Triad Stage Makes Magic with the Bewitching Comedy Bell, Book and Candle, October 19 – November 9, 2008
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September 15, 2008
Triad Stage’s UpStage Cabaret Begins
Its 2008-2009 Season with the Return of Dracula, September 25 – November 1, 2008
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August 12, 2008
Triad Stage Launches "Season of Spirit" with Tennessee Williams' Classic The Night of the Iguana, August 31 – September 21, 2008
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June 2, 2008
It’s Pirate Family Day at Triad Stage, Saturday, June 14
Free activities for children, and mini-performances of Redbeard’s Revenge
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May 23, 2008
Triad stage Concludes 2007-2008 Season with Bloody Blackbeard, a World Premiere Adventure by Preston Lane, with Original Music by Laurelyn Dossett, June 8 – July 6, 2008. Part of THTR 232 – Triad Stage and UNCG Theatre’s Third Annual Summer Theatre Festival
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April 23, 2008
Triad Stage’s Bloody Blackbeard Continues a Successful Tradition of Writing with a Regional Voice
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April 9, 2008
Civil Rights Activist Dr. Endesha Ida Mae Holland’s Uplifting From the Mississippi Delta Comes to Triad Stage, April 27 – May 18, 2008
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March 7, 2008
Triad Stage Announces 2008-2009 “Season of Spirit” Lineup Includes Well-known MasterPieces, New Works and the Return of the Holiday Hit Beautiful Star
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