Tropic Culture, a 10-person band that plays a Latin-infused blend of pop, rock, and reggae, peforms the next Downtown Davidson Concert on the Green Sunday, Sept. 13. The music runs 6-8 p.m. on the Village Green, Main Street and Concord Road. Read the full story

New River Dramatists, a nonprofit theater workshop based in the N.C. mountains, is back for its second annual Davidson residency this week. The group invites theater-lovers to sit in on its unique script-development sessions daily, attend a youth theater playwriting session, or watch a Saturday night staged reading of “Absence,” a new play by Wendy Hammond, in a fund-raiser for Davidson Community Players. The group also joins the ongoing Davidson Comprehensive Plan project, by presenting a dramatization about our town’s vision for the future on Sunday.

Also below, Davidson Community Players is up for Theatre Company of the Year and two 2008-9 Davidson College Theater Department productions (“Hamlet” and “Company”) are up for the outstanding college and university production award later this month at the 6th annual Metrolina Theater Awards.

Meanwhile, find out what’s on the college stage during the 2009-10 season, which begins with Moliere’s “Tartuffe” in October. Listings for those and other local theater events below. Read the full story

Best-selling novelist Dorothy Allison, this year’s McGree visiting professor of writing at Davidson College, will have a public reading and book signing Monday night at the college union. That’s among the highlights of our busy community calendar this week before Labor Day. Also on the schedule, a pair of juggling-related events: The Hurricane Hugo Juggling Festival with a public juggling session on the Village Green Saturday morning, and a related evening show called the Family Vaudeville Extravaganza. Also: lectures, a documentary film screening and sporting events at the college, and live music at local venues.

DavidsonNews.net’s calendars are updated continuously. Check back often for additions and changes. And make sure to come back Thursday when our Davidson Weekend Calendar will help you plan your weekend. Read the full story