Most love stories go something like this: guy meets girl, guy and girl fall in love, guy loses girl, guy gets girl back. However, in the case of Once, a musical currently onstage at Theatre Raleigh under the direction of Tim Seib and based on a film of the same name by John Carney,a slightly more complex and different pattern is followed.

Theatre Raleigh closes its Summer Season with the Tony Award-winning musical ONCE. Based on the 2007 film of the same name, ONCE tells the story of a Guy and a Girl who are brought together through their love of music. Dave Toole and Morgan Parpan play Guy and Girl in this production and sat down with me to talk about mastering dialects, playing musical instruments on stage, and what's next for Theatre Raleigh.

This week, Judy McLane steps into Maria Callas' shoes for the opening of the Theatre Raleigh production MASTER CLASS.

With the fiery intensity of a tigress, Judy McLane channels opera diva Maria Callas in Theatre Raleigh's production of Terrence McNally's MASTER CLASS.

On its surface, Terrence McNally's 1995 Tony Award-winning play, Master Class, now playing at Theatre Raleigh, is a fictionalized version of one of the master classes that world-famous operatic diva Maria Callas gave at the Juilliard School in New York City in late 1971 and early 1972.

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