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'No place like home' Smiles and Frowns Playhouse returns to 'Oz' and stages reunion for 40th anniversary
It’s hard to believe that two decades have passed since Brea Glosson starred as Dorothy in Smiles and Frowns Playhouse’s 20th anniversary production of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” Since that time, she has appeared on the college stage, moved to New York to pursue a theatrical career, and written and performed in a one-woman show. But next week, she will come back to where she started in Ayden’s Doug Mitchell Memorial Theater. After all, there’s no place like home. Smiles and Frowns will celebrate its 40th anniversary next week with a return to Oz. “The Wizard of Oz” was the first play performed when the children’s theater group organized in 1986. Over the years, the yellow brick road has become a familiar path, one that Smiles and Frowns has gone down for its 20th and 30th anniversaries as well. For Glosson and other former playhouse actors, it’s a road that leads to their first theatrical home. “I’ll be there in November,” Glosson said in a telephone interview from her home in Brooklyn, New York, where she works as an actor, a playwright, a teacher and a drama therapist. “I have my flight booked and my rental car rented.” Following
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The North Carolina Fried Chicken Counter That Kept Its Recipe While Every Food Trend Came and Went
Some of the best meals in North Carolina hide inside buildings you would drive past a hundred times without a second look. I almost did, until a line of hungry people wrapped around an old brick corner caught my eye at lunchtime. Inside, the smell of hot, crispy chicken and...
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5 Best Restaurants in Durham, North Carolina You Need to Try Before Everyone Else Finds Them
Durham, North Carolina — a city where tobacco warehouses stand shoulder to shoulder with glassy new towers, where the laughter of Duke students mingles with the wisdom of old-timers, where every street corner pulses with the energy of makers, dreamers, and families who’ve called this place home for generations. Here, the city’s soul is stitched together by the legacy of Black Wall Street, the rhythm of jazz and gospel, and the promise of new beginnings. It’s a place where barbecue smoke drifts through neighborhoods, where the scent of biscuits and collards mingles with the spice of new arrivals, and where every meal is a gathering — a celebration of memory and hope, of resilience and reinvention.
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📻🐾 WPTF AM Radio Building in Cary, NC – Historic Art Deco Landmark That Inspired Stranger Things!
Simba and I visited the historic WPTF AM Radio Building in Cary, North Carolina, an incredible Art Deco-style radio transmitter station that helped inspire the fictional WSQK radio station in Netflix's Stranger Things! With its rounded corners, streamlined windows, vintage lettering, and towering broadcast antennas, this unusual building looks like something straight out of another era.