Raleigh Memorial Auditorium: Artery, Indy Week

Take it from us: Monty Python's Spamalot is for fans and non-fans alike

Emma D. Miller — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:08:00 -0500

SPAMALOT
* * * * stars
NC Theatre
@ Raleigh Memorial Auditorium

A confession: I never totally understood the "classic" status of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I remember watching it for the first time in seventh grade at my friend’s house, and I remember how bewildered I was as she howled and quoted every line.…

Catch Me If You Can soars on live jumping jive—before a bumpy landing...

Byron Woods — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 09:08:00 -0500

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
3.5 stars (out of 5)
Broadway Series South/NC Theatre
Through Nov. 11

Frank Abagnale’s life story, vividly related in the jazzy Broadway musical Catch Me If You Can, beggars belief. A prodigy as an adolescent (albeit at check kiting and gaming various mechanisms in the American financial system), before age 18 he’d rung up well over $1 million dollars in multiple bank frauds.…

It's a nice enough show—but is "A Christmas Story" really a local production?

Byron Woods — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:37:00 -0500

A CHRISTMAS STORY
3.5 stars out of 5
Broadway Series South, N.C. Theatre, Hot Summer Nights
Through Dec. 4

Apparently there's some confusion about whose production of A CHRISTMAS STORY: THE MUSICAL is currently running in Raleigh Memorial Auditorium.

It's understandable enough.…

Going green: "punchy" and "charming" Little Shop of Horrors

Zack Smith — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:01:00 -0400

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
NC Theatre
@Raleigh Memorial Auditorium
Through Sept. 26

It’s rather odd how a retro-chic musical adapting a Roger Corman B-movie whose highlight is a giant man-eating plant puppet became a mainstay of musical theater. And yet, NC Theatre’s production Little Shop of Horrors proves the show remains as punchy and charming as ever, though “charming” is perhaps not the best phrase to describe a play where a key plot point involves dismemberment.…

Celebrating the brief era of headbands, leg warmers, short-shorts and roller disco in Xanadu

Zack Smith — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:04:04 -0500

XANADU

Raleigh Memorial Auditorium

Jan. 28-31

For a film famously reviewed as "Xana-Don't," the ill-fated 1980 Olivia Newton-John/ Gene Kelly musical Xanadu lingers in the mind. True, it helped kill the movie musical, along with the careers of most people involved, but the color, spectacle and sheer wrongness of the whole venture gave it a certain cult appeal.…

Old songs, old terrors: Revisiting South Pacific

Sarah Ewald — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:55:36 -0500

South Pacific

Memorial Auditorium, Progress Energy Center

Through Nov. 8, 831-6060

As audience members file into the theater to see this touring production of South Pacific, they see a huge screen hanging in front of the stage. It's covered with phrases that refer to the "Japs" and the human heads available as souvenirs.…

Cirques Go Berserk

Sarah Ewald — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:19:58 -0400

A male dancer catapults himself onto a small table on center stage. He slowly moves into a handstand, then contorts himself to lay perpendicular to the stage, supported by one hand.…