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    Tag:  Different Strokes Performing Arts Collective

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    Around Town: Asheville artist opens studio space at Roots + Wings Creative Campus

    Posted on June 21, 2022June 21, 2022 by Justin McGuire

    Asheville artist Ginger Huebner opens new studio and workshop space at her Roots + Wings Creative Campus. Plus, A Different Myth announces inaugural cohort of playwrights, Asheville grandmother publishes novel, and Hendersonville honors historic guesthouse.

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    Local groups provide opportunit­ies for emerging artists of color

    Posted on February 24, 2022February 21, 2022 by Edwin Arnaudin

    A Different Myth and programs at Asheville Community Theatre and the YMI Cultural Center seek to help solve arts equity issues.

    3.1 K views+Art NewsArtsLiteratureTheaterVisual Art

    Arts Council forms new Arts Coalition

    Posted on July 21, 2021July 25, 2021 by Edwin Arnaudin

    Ten local arts leaders comprise the inaugural Arts Coalition leadership team. Also, Folkmoot returns to in-person events, plus more area arts news!

    3.7 K views+Art NewsArts

    Taking action: Stephanie Hickling Beckman

    Posted on April 14, 2021April 7, 2021 by Edwin Arnaudin

    The Different Strokes managing artistic director discusses her theater company’s plans to sustain momentum built during summer 2020’s BLM protests and enact lasting change.

    3.7 K views+ArtsSustainabilityTheater

    A&E Roundup: Open Hearts celebrates new mural

    Posted on November 12, 2020November 12, 2020 by Edwin Arnaudin

    Open Hearts and Ian Wilkinson collaborate, ACT premieres Maria Young’s new play and more area arts news.

    3.5 K views+Art NewsArtsCraftTheaterVisual Art

    Different Strokes and NC Stage produce new shows confrontin­g racism

    Posted on September 8, 2020September 8, 2020 by Edwin Arnaudin

    Two local productions — Different Strokes’ “…while Black” show and NC Stage’s latest collaboration with Mike Wiley — mark their companies’ most ambitious digital performances thus far.

    3.7 K views+ArtsTheater

    Different Strokes takes up residence at The Wortham Center

    Posted on September 5, 2019August 29, 2019 by Arnold Wengrow

    Different Strokes is the first resident theater company at The Wortham Center (formerly known as The Diana Wortham Theatre). That partnership and the Tina McGuire Theatre debut with the premiere of Different Strokes’ production, ‘The Education of Ted Harris,’ on Thursday, Sept. 12.

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    Theater review: ‘Twelve Angry Jurors’ by Different Strokes!

    Posted on October 8, 2018October 8, 2018 by Patricia Furnish

    Momentum is key to this play, and the ensemble works together well together, almost like a dance choreographed to represent the shifting points of view.

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    Theater review: ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ by Different Strokes

    Posted on August 13, 2018August 13, 2018 by Kai Elijah Hamilton

    This will be Different Strokes! final show in The BeBe Theatre. The company is moving to a new space in the near future called The Downstage Performing Arts Center.

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    Different Strokes! confronts censorship through tale of ‘bunny book crusade’

    Posted on February 5, 2018February 7, 2018 by Daniel Walton

    In 1959, Alabama state senator E.O. Eddins Sr. (renamed Higgins in the play) became aware of a children’s book called The Rabbits’ Wedding, which showed the marriage of a white rabbit to a black rabbit, and demanded that the title be pulled from Alabama public library shelves.

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    Different Strokes! and Montford Park Players highlight gender issues in Shakespear­e

    Posted on November 1, 2017October 27, 2017 by Daniel Walton

    The intersectionality of racial and homosexual prejudice places Shakespeare’s 400-year-old play in the context of contemporary social justice.

    3.6 K views+ArtsTheater

    Halloween happenings around WNC

    Posted on October 25, 2017October 26, 2017 by Alli Marshall

    Here’s a selection of costumed capers, ghoulish gatherings and pumpkin-spiced parties. From autumnal festivities to puppet shows, there’s a celebration for nearly every reveler.

    4.5 K views2ArtsDanceLiteratureMusicPerformance ArtTheater

    Smart Bets: Best of Enemies

    Posted on August 14, 2017August 15, 2017 by Edwin Arnaudin

    Different Strokes’ latest play runs Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings from Aug. 17 through Sept. 2 at the theater at Asheville High School.

    2.8 K views2ArtsTheater

    Different Strokes! stages ‘5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche’

    Posted on June 12, 2017June 8, 2017 by Lauren Stepp

    Different Strokes! Performing Arts Collective stages a comedy that will anchor a “FUNraiser” benefitting the group’s plan to open a 120-seat theater space.

    3.8 K views+ArtsTheater

    Theater review: The Submission by Different Strokes!

    Posted on February 14, 2017February 14, 2017 by Kai Elijah Hamilton

    The Submission is a foul-mouthed, menacing play by Jeff Talbot, which aims to hold a mirror up to our prejudices. Different Strokes!’ production is staged at the BeBe Theatre through Saturday, Feb. 25.

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    Different Strokes opens its season with the provocativ­e play ‘The Submission’

    Posted on February 7, 2017February 3, 2017 by Tony Kiss

    The tale centers around the character of Danny, a struggling playwright whose years of rejection might have come to an end. His new show seems destined for greatness. But should he hide behind a false identity and go forward with the production hoping that no one will catch on that he is white?

    2.4 K views+ArtsTheater

    Theater review: The Mountainto­p by Different Strokes Performing Arts Collective

    Posted on June 7, 2016June 7, 2016 by Jeff Messer

    Different Strokes Performing Arts Collective delivers another socially minded, thought-provoking production with an intriguing Martin Luther King Jr. drama.

    2.9 K views+ArtsTheater

    Different Strokes stages all-female production of Glengarry Glen Ross

    Posted on March 1, 2016February 25, 2016 by Edwin Arnaudin

    The Asheville performing arts collective received playwright David Mamet’s approval for a gender swap production less than 48 hours after contacting his publisher.

    4.6 K views5ArtsTheater

    Smart bets: The Boys Next Door

    Posted on November 2, 2015October 26, 2015 by Kat McReynolds

    Performances are Thursdays through Sundays, Nov. 5-21, at 7:30 p.m., at The BeBe Theatre, with proceeds benefiting Paws on ASD.

    2.6 K views+ArtsPerformance ArtTheater

    Theater review: “The Shape of Things” by Different Strokes

    Posted on September 8, 2015September 7, 2015 by Jeff Messer

    Different Strokes Performing Arts Collective’s daring new show — Neil Labute’s The Shape Of Things — is made all the more stunning by the innovation of two different casts of actors taking on the same script.

    3.3 K views+ArtsTheater
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