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Current & Upcoming Events
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Transactors Improv Presents: City of Medicine
Join us for our third season of this completely improvised serial medical drama. Inspired by Grey’s Anatomy and E.R., this real-life drama is set at Bull City Medical Center, Durham’s newest teaching hospital. Each show the cast is joined by a special guest who is either saved or killed by our doctors. Don’t miss a single episode!
City of Medicine: Where who you heal is not nearly as important as whose heart you steal.
Fridays: March 12, April 2 & June 11 at 8pm Eastern
Tickets: $12-General, $10-Students & Seniors
Reservations: (919) 698-3870 or by E-mail
Website: Transactors Improv
When a Man Makes Love… A Uncle Typhus Uncommon Burlesque
featuring
International Male Dual-Sensation, “Menvious”
The Exotic Dance Stylings of “M.I.L.F.”
Dana Marks as Nick Cave Does Leonard Cohen
Lucius Robinson’s Children’s Theatre of Cruelty in “The Further Adventures of Timothy Dentist”
Stand-Up-and-Spread-’Em Comedy by Annie Zipper
Another Death-Defying 80’s Video Reenactment by Rachel & the Klembots
Wil “Sexual Sunshine” Weldon, Screamin’ Geraud Hawkins and Dr. Tony Perucci, PHD.
All supported by our gentleman house band, Captain and Tunnell.
Children and the infirm will be escorted from the premises…
Saturday, March 13, 8:00 p.m.
Suggested $10 donation
No reservations
Princess Dragon Productions Presents: Mama Juggs: Three Generations Healing Negative Body Images
Written and performed by ‘rie Shontel, Mama Juggs is a provocative one-woman show that challenges black female body awareness in an Oakland, CA housing project. Each character – ages 17, 27, 47 and 100 – create a healing salve to overcome cultural taboos as they deal with breast cancer, late puberty bra stuffing, old age, and the frustrations of breast feeding. A ‘capella breast-feeding songs passed down from ‘rie’s great-grandmother are included in the performance. The shows are a prelude to ‘rie Shontel’s much-anticipated July reunion with her family’s ancestral tribe in Cameroon, Africa.
Proceeds will support ‘rie’s journey and improving her Tikar tribe’s access to healthcare/education.
March 19 & 20 at 8:00 pm
March 20 at 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $25- General, $20- Students and 55+
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Website: rie Shontel“
See Trailer for Mama Juggs
FatMouth Improv
Silliness with a purpose! Short and longform improv based on audience suggestions—all in one evening.
Saturdays: April 3 & May 29 at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets: $8.00
Information: (919) 698-3870
Website: FatMouth Improv
Black Poetry Theatre Presents: Confessions of a Lounge Singer
Confessions of a Lounge Singer is a one man production written and performed by Dasan Ahanu. Set in the ‘60s it follows the life of popular lounge singer Earl “Treetops” Johnson as he struggles to hold onto his dreams, find love, meet expectation s and satisfy his goon of a boss. Not only a fictitious representation of the lounge scene, it is a metaphor for spoken word today. Many poets come to find their voice in lounges or coffee shops sharing their work at the open mic and gaining popularity with each new piece. They soon feel the tug of their art at their soul. It leaves them seeking to balance the pull of home and the community they love (City), life and personal relationships (Songbird), and the pursuit of their own aspirations and dreams. Come take this journey inside the soul of a lounge sin…I mean poet. This is another Black Poetry Theatre Production.
“People ask me how far I’ve come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.” – David Lee Roth
Sunday, April 11 at 7:00 p.m.
In Advance- $7: E-MAIL at blackpoetrytheatre@gmail.com or ONLINE at Black Poetry Theatre
At the Door- $10
More info contact: Joseph “Church Da’Poet” Churchwell 919-627-1076 or Dasan Ahanu 919 295-0176
Ghost & Spice Productions Presents: Boston Marriage by David Mamet
Witty, wicked, hilarious. This brilliantly clever and rhythmic play, by multi-award winning playwright David Mamet, leads us into the world of two surly old friends living on society’s fringe. As they articulate their skewed perceptions of love and gender roles, the language ignites into delightful and deliciously vicious banter. The plot twists and turns as we witness their jealousy, fear, and desperation for love.
The cast of Boston Marriage will feature company members Tracey Coppedge and Lenore Field with guest artist Lakeisha Coffey, and will be directed by guest artist Jay O’Berski.
With its “small but mighty” approach to theatre, Ghost & Spice Productions puts special emphasis on high standards of acting and directing while minimizing production costs. Its rich storytelling brings audiences varied, engaging, and affordable professional theatre.
April 16 & 17, 22-24, 29-May 1 at 8:00 p.m.
April 25 at 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $16- General, $14- Students and Seniors
Reservations: (888) 239-9253 or by E-Mail
Website: Ghost & Spice