Triad Arts

Winston-Salem Festival Ballet Presents Dracula

“I have waited for centuries in secrecy and shadows for the return of my beloved. She is here, in this place and I must know her, protect her, love her”. The Winston-Salem Festival Ballet brings the classic story of Dracula to life the, but with a modern twist. The new ballet by Founder and Artistic Director Gary Taylor with original music by UNCSA Film Music Composition head Chris Heckman, is told from the viewpoint of the Count himself.

Children's Theatre of Winston-Salem Busy As Ever

Children’s Theatre of Winston-Salem is just as busy as ever with Fall productions at the Arts Council
 
Theatre and Dixie Classic Fairgrounds, Playhouse Acting Classes, and their Best Christmas Pageant Ever auditions are just around the corner. Coming up Friday and Saturday, October 4th and 5th it’s the TheatreworksUSA production of The Teacher From The Black Lagoon & Other Story Books with shows 10am and noon on Friday and 11am on Saturday morning. Children’s Theatre of Winston-Salem General Manager Karen McHugh and Artistic Director Cheri Van Loon provide this season preview.

The Music Behind the Ken Burns Documentaries

Pianist Jacqueline Schwab has been heard on more than a dozen PBS documentaries by film maker Ken Burns who calls her playing “…insistent, physical, heartfelt and…unusually moving”. You can hear for yourself Friday night, October 4th at 7:30 pm in Presbyterian Church of the Covenant in Greensboro. Jacqueline’s performance will feature traditional Celtic music, Civil War tunes, hymns and spirituals, ragtime, blues and even tango.

Flentrop Organ Restoration Celebration Concert Held at Salem College

The Clemens and Margaret Sandresky Artist Faculty Series presents Flentrop Organ Restoration Celebration—Inaugural Concert Featuring Organist Timothy Olsen on Friday, September 27, at 7:30 p.m. It'll be in Shirley Recital Hall, inside Elberson Fine Arts Center on the Salem College campus. As the school and the wider regional organ community celebrate the restoration and renovation of the 1965 Flentrop organ in Shirley Recital Hall, Salem's Associate Professor of organ, Timothy Olsen, kicks off a series of events featuring the magnificent Flentrop organ in a solo recital. 

Paper Lantern Theatre Company Presents "Time Stands Still"

A regional premiere of Time Stands Still, the Tony nominated play by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Donald Margulies comes to the Triad this month courtesy of Paper Lantern Theatre Company. "The play's two hours fly by as if you've barely taken a breath”, so says Variety magazine. Time Stands Still kicks off Paper Lantern's 6th season and its first season as the official resident theatre company for the Triad Stage UpStage Cabaret.  

Dance Gala Greensboro: The Vital Grace Project Kicks Off 17 Days Festival

  

Dance Gala Greensboro: The Vital Grace Project is Friday, September 20th at 7:00 pm in Aycock Auditorium. It's the opening night of the 17 Days Festival. Vital Grace Project director and University of NC at Greensboro Associate Professor Duane Cyrus danced with Martha Graham and Alvin Ailey before beginning Cyrus Art Production and choreographing his own works. In Dance Gala Greensboro, Duane hopes to engage a range of communities with works by Graham, Charles Moore and others. Images from his book Vital Grace: The Black Male Dancer will be projected on a large screen behind the dancers during the performance.