Our Q&A with The Carolina Theatre’s CEO/President

August 9, 2018/Durham Magazine/Culture
Photo by Briana Brough

“I thought [my mom] had brought us to the end of the Earth,” Rebecca Newton says of her first impression of Durham as a teenager in 1969, moving here from St. Louis with her mom, Dr. Jacqueline A. Reynolds, who was a professor in biochemistry and physiology at Duke. It didn’t take long to change Rebecca’s mind, however. She’s now lived in the Bull City for more than 45 years.