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“…these borders that keep me down…”

von der Heyden Studio Theater at the Rubenstein Arts Center 2020 Campus Drive, Durham, NC

SLIPPAGE presents an hour-long afrotechnopunk extravaganza that explores redlining, gerrymandering, and asocial cartographies that produce and reinforce inequality—a Moogfest event.

JACK Quartet “American Music No. 2”

von der Heyden Studio Theater at the Rubenstein Arts Center 2020 Campus Drive, Durham, NC

The JACK Quartet returns for its second concert of the season as Duke Performances’ ensemble-in-residence with another daring program of American music for string quartet: works by Erin Gee, Mark Applebaum, Elliott Carter, Anthony Braxton, Morton Feldman, and, a month after its Carnegie Hall premiere, Philip Glass’ String Quartet No. 8.

Chicago

von der Heyden Studio Theater at the Rubenstein Arts Center 2020 Campus Drive, Durham, NC

Record-breaking smash hit Chicago is coming to the von der Heyden Studio Theater! Come enjoy a night of fame and criminality as Hoof ‘n’ Horn razzle dazzles you with all that jazz.

Chicago

von der Heyden Studio Theater at the Rubenstein Arts Center 2020 Campus Drive, Durham, NC

Record-breaking smash hit Chicago is coming to the von der Heyden Studio Theater! Come enjoy a night of fame and criminality as Hoof ‘n’ Horn razzle dazzles you with all that jazz. This matinee (April 14) features audio description for audience members with low or no vision.

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Chicago

von der Heyden Studio Theater at the Rubenstein Arts Center 2020 Campus Drive, Durham, NC

Record-breaking smash hit Chicago is coming to the von der Heyden Studio Theater! Come enjoy a night of fame and criminality as Hoof ‘n’ Horn razzle dazzles you with all that jazz.

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“THE_OPER&” World Premiere

von der Heyden Studio Theater at the Rubenstein Arts Center 2020 Campus Drive, Durham, NC

A bold new opera using the high-drama framework of opera and advanced technology to explore ideas of apocalypse, renewal, and survival in the modern age.

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Bedlam “Hamlet”

von der Heyden Studio Theater at the Rubenstein Arts Center 2020 Campus Drive, Durham, NC

Brooklyn theater company Bedlam presents George Bernard Shaw’s 1923 tragedy Saint Joan, based on the trials of Joan of Arc, with four actors playing two dozen characters; Bedlam doubles down by producing Shakespeare’s Hamlet — a tale of murder, madness, and revenge — using the same four actors, in repertory with Saint Joan.

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Bedlam “Saint Joan”

von der Heyden Studio Theater at the Rubenstein Arts Center 2020 Campus Drive, Durham, NC

Brooklyn theater company Bedlam presents George Bernard Shaw’s 1923 tragedy Saint Joan, based on the trials of Joan of Arc, with four actors playing two dozen characters; Bedlam doubles down by producing Shakespeare’s Hamlet — a tale of murder, madness, and revenge — using the same four actors, in repertory with Saint Joan.

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Jennifer Koh “Shared Madness: New Work for Solo Violin”

von der Heyden Studio Theater at the Rubenstein Arts Center 2020 Campus Drive, Durham, NC

Virtuoso violinist Jennifer Koh plays two different concerts featuring thirty-two short pieces from the world’s greatest living composers, among them Kaija Saariaho, Julia Wolfe, Missy Mazzoli, Vijay Iyer, Gabriel Kahane, Philip Glass, Augusta Read Thomas, David Lang, and John Harbison.

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Antony Hamilton & Alisdair Macindoe “MEETING”

von der Heyden Studio Theater at the Rubenstein Arts Center 2020 Campus Drive, Durham, NC

A spellbinding mix of classic b-boy moves and contemporary dance, Australian choreographer Antony Hamilton and sound artist and dancer Alexander Macindoe’s Bessie Award-winning MEETING uses a mechanically improvised score as the starting point for a mesmerizing dance spectacle.


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