Triad Stage in the News
September 11, 2009
Sod Story: NC Picnic, Opening Sept. 11, Comes Complete With Layer of Grass
by Kenneth Jones
Playbill.com
Theatregoers at Triad Stage's revival of Williams Inge’s Picnic, the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama set over a hot Labor Day weekend, have been getting to their seats by crunching across a carpet of dead sod. It’s not an outdoor production.
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September 10, 2009
'Picnic' gets a perfect setting: real (dead) grass
by Dawn DeCwikiel-Kane
News & Record
Howard C. Jones designs big dreams. So when the Triad Stage scenic designer envisioned a lawn for his set of William Inge's drama, "Picnic," he naturally pictured real grass. But not a lush, plush lawn.
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September 6, 2009
Triad's Picnic, Starting Sept. 6, Will Be Played on a Grassy Stage in NC
by Kenneth Jones
Playbill.com
Triad Stage's new production of William Inge's Picnic, that late-summer-set play about a stranger upsetting emotions in a Kansas town, begins Sept. 6 in Greensboro, NC.
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August 19, 2009
Picnic Will Open Triad's Ninth Season in NC
by Kenneth Jones
Playbill.com
Casting is set for Triad Stage's new production of William Inge's Picnic, directed by artistic director Preston Lane, in Greensboro, NC.
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June 11, 2009
Modern-Day Tartuffe Adaptation Premieres at Triad in NC June 11
by Kenneth Jones
Playbill.com
A new 90-minute adaptation of Tartuffe, or The Hypocrite, Molière's 1664 classic of a family fooled by a falsely pious schemer, opens June 11 in a world-premiere engagement at Triad Stage in Greensboro, NC.
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May 21, 2009
Husband and Wife Weiss and McGuire Star in NC World Premiere of Modern-Day Tartuffe
by Kenneth Jones
Playbill.com
Casting has been announced for the world premiere of a 90-minute version of Tartuffe, or The Hypocrite, Molière's 1664 classic of a family fooled by a falsely pious schemer, to play June 7-28 at Triad Stage in Greensboro, NC.
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March 15, 2009
New Adaptation of Ghosts Materializes March 15 at NC's Triad Stage
by Kenneth Jones
Playbill.com
Triad Stage conjures Ghosts, the Henrik Ibsen play about family lies and legacies, in a world-premiere adaptation written and directed by Preston Lane, March 15-April 5 in Greensboro, NC.
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March 13, 2009
Triad Stage tackles another Ibsen play with "Ghosts"
by Brian Rose
Burlington Times-News
Things are about to get a little spooky at Triad Stage, and it isn't even Halloween. The downtown Greensboro theater will present a world-premiere adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts" beginning with preview performances at 7:30 p.m. today, Tuesday and Wednesday.
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January 23, 2009
Music unites two strangers in "Black Pearl Sings!"
by Brian Rose
Burlington Times-News
America witnessed history last week when it inaugurated Barack Obama as the country's first African-American president. That's one of the reasons director Benny Sato Ambush is so excited to be a part of Triad Stage's next production: Frank Higgins' "Black Pearl Sings!"
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Reviews
February 23, 2010
Recalling Around the World in 80 Days
Theatre Review by Perry Tannenbaum
Creative Loafing Charlotte
Two of my favorite French-speaking literary characters, Hercule Poirot and Phileas Fogg, have similar personalities, cool and precise to a fault, yet surprisingly quick-witted and quick-acting in a crisis. We can have our fill of Poirot, who appears in no less than 33 Agatha Christie novels, but Fogg (an Englishman who only "spoke" French in the original text) was brought to life once by Jules Verne in 1872. His epic adventures in Around the World in 80 Days are so vast that, after the humongous Hollywood version of 1958, Fogg has largely evaporated from popular culture.
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February 14, 2010
Preston Lane Takes Triad Stage Patrons on a Remarkable Trip Around the World in 80 Days
Theatre Review by Lynn Jessup
Classical Voice of North Carolina
What could be more staid than the Victorian stage? Heavily draped curtains, overdone fringe, portraits of pompous dignitaries, painstakingly painted backdrops. Enter Preston Lane. Thanks to Triad Stage’s co-founder and artistic director, chaos erupts within this stuffy Victorian setting, and the theater’s audiences are whisked away on a rollicking whirlwind tour: Around the World in 80 Days, adapted from the 19th century Jules Verne adventure novel by Mark Brown.
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December 4, 2009
Triad Stage’s Beautiful Star Tells an Appalachian Nativity Story
Theatre Review by Lynn Jessup
Classical Voice of North Carolina
For many years, the little country church I grew up in had a Christmas Eve play, and it was the highlight of the year. I can look back and mark my growth through the parts I played, and watching Triad Stage’s Beautiful Star: An Appalachian Nativity was like revisiting those years.
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November 25, 2009
Triad Stage’s SantaLand Diaries Offers Holiday Satire at Its Finest
Theatre Review by Keith Barber
YES! Weekly
Charles M. Schulz, the creator of the Peanuts comic strip, railed against the commercialization of Christmas in the TV animated holiday classic, A Charlie Brown Christmas. Schulz’s method of delivering his message came in the form of a sweet, heartwarming story about Charlie Brown’s search for the true meaning of Christmas. David Sedaris took a slightly different approach with his 1992 NPR radio essay, SantaLand Diaries. If A Charlie Brown Christmas is the G-rated version of holiday satire, SantaLand Diaries definitely merits an R.
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October 28, 2009
Triad Stage’s Oleanna Does Justice to Mamet's Vision
Theatre Review by Keith Barber
YES! Weekly
The tile-covered walls deep inside Triad Stage reverberated with the voices of men who had been unnerved by what they had just witnessed. Opening night of David Mamet’s Oleanna sparked a vigorous postmortem in the men’s room. “That’s why you always have a third person in the room!” one gentleman exclaimed. Nearly everyone inside the lavatory either nodded or voiced their agreement.
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October 25, 2009
Triad Stage’s Oleanna Is an Eyebrow-Raising He Said, She Said
Theatre Review by Lynn Jessup
Classical Voice of North Carolina
A theater, like a symphony, needs to take on intellectually challenging projects, as much for its audiences as itself, if it exists truly for the edification of the community. Triad Stage’s latest production, Oleanna, written by David Mamet, is one of those productions.
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September 11, 2009
Triad Stage Kicks off New Season with Picnic
Theatre Review by Christine McCarthy
The Community Arts Café
Triad Stage has opened their “Season Together” with a winner! Their production of William Inge’s “Picnic” was energetic and moving, comedic and heartbreaking, much like the human condition.
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September 11, 2009
Triad Stage’s Picnic Is a Superb Rendition of a Theater Classic
Theatre Review by Lynn Jessup
Classical Voice of North Carolina
Staging a period production is always a challenge: modernizing it inflicts change, and audiences don’t always like change; keeping the integrity of the era in which it was written runs the risk of seeming old-fashioned and stilted. Triad Stage’s Picnic manages to overcome both challenges: while keeping the feel and face of the 1950s, when William Inge wrote the play, Triad Stage artistic director Preston Lane has made the show as fresh and titillating as a work wet off the press.
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June 14, 2009
Triad Stage’s Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite Is a
Riotous Blast from the Past
Theatre Review by Lynn Jessup
Classical Voice of North Carolina
Any way you translate it, Triad Stage’s Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite is a riotous blast from the past. Who’d have thought a 300-year-old play, a French one at that, could feel so fresh and sharp?
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May 12, 2009
Trailer trash in The Blonde, The Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead
Theatre Review by Perry Tannenbaum
Creative Loafing
Up in Greensboro, you also have just a few more days to catch the regional premiere of Robert Hewitt's The Blonde, The Brunette, and the Vengeful Redhead at Triad Stage. It's a one-woman show starring Kate Goehring -- and a curious assortment of wigs and hats as she portrays five women, a man and a boy.
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May 3, 2009
The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead at Triad Stage Takes Wing in the Second Act
Theatre Review by Lynn Jessup
Classical Voice of North Carolina
The title The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead, aptly describes the three main characters in Triad Stage’s current production of Australian playwright Robert Hewett’s 2004 one-woman show.
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Podcasts
December 8, 2009
"Triad Arts Up Close" – The Santaland Diaries
With host David Ford
WFDD 88.5 FM
June 23, 2009
"Triad Arts Up Close" – Appalachian Summer Festival
With host David Ford
WFDD 88.5 FM
June 18, 2009
“Triad Arts Up Close” – Tartuffe II
With host David Ford
WFDD 88.5 FM
June 9, 2009
“Triad Arts Up Close” – Tartuffe
With host David Ford
WFDD 88.5 FM
March 11, 2009
“Triad Arts Up Close” – Ghosts
With host Bradley George
WFDD 88.5 FM
February 6, 2009
“The State of Things” – Black Pearl Sings!
With host Frank Stasio
WUNC North Carolina Public Radio 91.5 FM
January 26, 2009
“Triad Arts Up Close” – Black Pearl Sings!
With host Bradley George
WFDD 88.5 FM
Press Releases
January 27, 2010
Triad Stage announces 2010-2011 "The 10th Season"
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January 22, 2010
Bring the kids out to Around the World Day at Triad Stage, Saturday, February 20. Free activities for children and mini-performances from cultures around the world
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January 19, 2010
Greensboro audiences go Around the World in 80 Days with Triad Stage. Mark Brown’s family-friendly comic adaptation of Jules Verne’s classic adventure in extended run, February 7 – March 7, 2010.
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January 14, 2010
It’s Around Downtown in 80 Minutes, Friday, February 5
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November 10, 2009
Triad Stage's family-friendly holiday hit Beautiful Star: An Appalachian Nativity returns for the fourth and final year, November 27 – December 23, 2009
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November 4, 2009
David Sedaris’ hilarious The Santaland Diaries is a holiday laugh riot at Triad Stage’s UpStage Cabaret, November 19 – December 19, 2009
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September 29, 2009
Triad Stage presents both sides of the story in David Mamet’s controversial Oleanna, October 18 – November 8, 2009. Dramatic power play becomes Greensboro regional theater’s first production performed in-the-round.
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August 18, 2009
Triad Stage takes audiences on a Picnic to launch “A Season Together." William Inge’s summer romance opens the regional theater’s ninth season. Performances September 6 – 27, 2009.
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May 19, 2009
Triad Stage closes out its 2008-2009 “Season of Spirit” with a new reimagining of Molière’s classic, Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite.
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April 8, 2009
Robert Hewett’s New International Hit, The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead, Makes Its Regional Debut at Triad Stage, April 26 – May 17, 2009
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February 26, 2009
Triad Stage Presents World Premiere Adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts, March 15 – April 5, 2009
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February 23, 2009
Triad Stage Announces The 2009-2010 “A Season Together” 5-Play Lineup and the Return of the Holiday Hit Beautiful Star. New season provides patrons with more price-conscious option
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February 12, 2009
Molière’s Classic comedy Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite replaces Triad Stage’s June 2009 production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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January 28, 2009
Pearl Cleage Takes a Stand with Mad at Miles in Triad Stage’s UpStage Cabaret, February 12 – March 7, 2009
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January 26, 2009
Announcing “163” – Triad Stage’s $16 Ticket Special:
$16 Tickets for 16 hours on February 16, 2009. Area Theater Lovers Get Great Shows for a Great Bargain
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January 7, 2009
American Express Corporation Presents Triad Stage’s Musical Journey Black Pearl Sings!, January 25 – February 15, 2009
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