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Triad Stage Theatrical Experience ★ Celebrate Greensboro Art. Culture. Entertainment. The cast of Brother Wolf and (opposite page, from left) Tyler Hollinger, Cheryl Koski, and Matthew Carlson in Triad The Glass Menagerie leven years ago, Triad Stage theatrical experience. The was just a dream. Today it is show has been produced by Stage other theaters across the a major force in the North country, and Levon Helm Carolina arts community and performed one of its songs From a vision to a on his Grammy-winning a catalyst for Greensboro’s album Dirt Farmer. leading voice downtown revitalization. This season Triad Stage is paying tribute to the life E and work of North Carolina Using the best local and national talent author Reynolds Price (Kate Vaiden, A Whole (including Tony Award–nominated actors New Life) by producing all three plays of his Standing and designers), Triad Stage has produced New Music trilogy over a five-week period in Ovations 76 productions (including 14 world premieres February and March of 2012. This is the first ■ One of the Top 10 Most Promising ge and nine holiday shows) and numerous special time since the plays debuted at Cleveland A Theaters – American d st events in its MainStage and UpStage Cabaret Playhouse in 1990 that all three (August Snow, A Theatre Wing spaces. Founded by Yale School of Drama Night Dance, and Better Days) will be per- (founders of the alumni Preston Lane and Richard Whittington, formed together. Tony Awards) the theater has grown into one of the largest Key to the theater’s development was ■ Best of 2007 – The Wall Street Journal regional performing arts organizations with the purchase and renovation of a former ■ Best N .C . Production phers/courtesy of tri A 3,250 Season Passholders. Montgomery Ward department store — of 2010 – Triangle Arts Today the theater company is making a vacant for almost 40 years — in the heart of & Entertainment hotogr p national name for itself by fostering a unique downtown Greensboro. After a community- ■ Best Live Theatre Southern voice. While works by Tennessee wide fundraising campaign, Triad Stage – GoTriad/News & Record (eight nderVeen A Williams, William Inge, Erskine Caldwell, brought new life to the five-story building consecutive years) ge) V Endesha Ida Mae Holland, and Ernest by transforming it into a world-class venue A ■ 2010 J. Edward Gaines have been great successes, the now called The Pyrle Theatre, complete Kitchen Leadership theater’s four world premieres written by with a 300-seat thrust MainStage, a 90-seat Award – Downtown Greensboro, Inc. Triad Stage Artistic Director Preston Lane UpStage Cabaret, the Sloan rehearsal hall, nd (opposite p A and musician/songwriter Laurelyn Dossett lobbies, and special event areas. The space is have propelled it onto the national scene. also home to Chapel Hill–based WUNC Their first collaboration, Brother Wolf Public Radio’s Greensboro News Bureau. (an Appalachian retelling of the epic story For more information about Triad Stage Beowulf) combined music rooted in the or to support the theater’s efforts, go to photos by J. Allenphotos by Aycock region and storytelling to create a new triadstage.org or become a fan on Facebook. • 103 •.
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