Sarah Edwards

3 days ago | indyweek.com | Sarah Edwards |Daneen Khan |Eva Flowe

Alice Walker’s 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning classic comes to life in musical form this month, with a Theatre Raleigh production directed by Tia James. Beginning in ​​turn-of-the-century Georgia, The Color Purple follows Celie—Black, poor, and abused by men time and time over—through a series of letters that trace her evolution across 40 years as she gains confidence and is able to heal and challenge the forces of her oppression.

1 week ago | indyweek.com | Sarah Edwards

This story originally published online in The 9th Street Journal. On a recent Tuesday night, on the center patio of Ponysaurus, a woman in a magenta tennis outfit juggles a pilsner in one hand and a tawny puppy in the other. One table over, a little girl with two vertical blond pigtails totters across a picnic bench like it is a balance beam.

1 week ago | indyweek.com | Sarah Edwards

Last September, the International Bluegrass Music Association’s (IBMA) annual World of Bluegrass festival fell on the same weekend that Hurricane Helene swept through the Southeast. Several of the artists coming down from Western North Carolina had to cancel, as the festival trudged through its last year in Raleigh under rain and somber conditions. World of Bluegrass has since decamped to Chattanooga, lured by support from Tennessee’s Special Event Fund.

1 week ago | indyweek.com | Sarah Edwards |Daneen Khan |Eva Flowe

OK, so Moby Dick isn’t technically about a fish, but it is a book that set a high bar for aquatic storytelling. Enter Fish Tales, a performance series which began in Santa Cruz in 2016 and has staged storytelling events ever since. People with a story to share—be that scientists, poets, comedians, or philosophers—can participate by relaying a five- to eight-minute story involving fish, rivers, or the open sea.

1 week ago | indyweek.com | Daneen Khan |Sarah Edwards |Eva Flowe

A fish-themed storytelling event, a queer book fair for adults, a history of the apocalypse (with metal music), and more events around the Triangle we recommend this week.