Recent News & Headlines

7/19/07 - 2007 Edition of Briarpatch May Be The Best Yet

By Robert W. McDowell, Triangle Theater Review

Thanks to a talented cast, vivacious direction and choreography, and an inspired design team, Theatre in the Park’s 2007 edition of Briarpatch is probably the best-ever production of TIP founder and executive and artistic director Ira David Wood III’s delightful Southern-fried musical comedy based on the Br’er Rabbit tales of Georgia writer Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908). This crowd-pleasing show, which will continue July 26-29 and Aug. 2-5 in the Ira David Wood III Pullen Park Theatre in Raleigh, NC, transposes the picaresque characters of Harris’ animal fables from the woods of Georgia to the thickets of David Wood’s native Eastern North Carolina...(read full review as a PDF)

7/19/07 - “BRIARPATCH” TRANSFORMS THE BR’ER RABBIT STORIES
OF JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS INTO A “FEEL GOOD” SHOW

By Robert W. McDowell, Triangle Theater Review

Theatre in the Park will stage its annual summer production of BRIARPATCH, a downhome musical written and directed by TIP founder and executive and artistic director Ira David Wood III, based on the Br’er Rabbit stories of Georgia writer Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908), on July 19-22 and 26-29 and Aug. 2-5 at its theater in Pullen Park in Raleigh, NC. Returning stars include David Henderson as Br’er Rabbit, Mike Raab as Br’er Turtle, J.K. Ferrell as Br’er Bear, and David Wood as Br’er Fox....(read full article)

5/31/07 - Greater Tuna Is a Real Stemwinder
By Robert W. McDowell, Triangle Theater Review (download full review as a 92kb PDF)

5/31/07 - Mike Raab and J.K. Ferrell Will Star in Greater Tuna
By Robert W. McDowell, Triangle Theater Review (download full article as a 53kb PDF)

Press Releases

7/15/07 - Ira David Wood III and the cast of Briarpatch visit Duke Children's Hospital.  (download pdf with images)

7/3/07 - Ira David Wood III receives the prestigious Morrison Award at Lost Colony's groundbreaking 70th Anniversary Celebration.  (download pdf)

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