The classic Rodgers and Hammerstein score is still an audience pleaser, but some of the plot points don’t play well in the 21st century.
Your guide to Asheville's vibrant and diverse movie offerings.
Your guide to Asheville's vibrant and diverse movie offerings.
All by Bruce Steele and Edwin Arnaudin
The classic Rodgers and Hammerstein score is still an audience pleaser, but some of the plot points don’t play well in the 21st century.
Broadway legend Betty Buckley grounds this mapcap, oh-so-old-fashioned Jerry Herman musical, rethinking the role shaped for Bette Midler.
Come From Away is easily the best Broadway offering of Greenville’s Peace Center since Hamilton.
Lauren Gunderson’s moving play about pioneering American astronomer Henrietta Leavitt is a delight at NC Stage Co. — and surprisingly funny.
Footloose is a musical about a community healed by music and dancing. What could be better at our own community theater?
Immediate Theatre's annual production of Live From WVL Radio Theatre: It’s A Wonderful Life has landed at North Carolina Stage Co. for three weeks this year, an early Christmas present to Asheville theater audiences.
Whether you’re a #Fanastasia or not, you’ll fall for Lila Coogan as the maybe-heiress to Russian royalty in this impressively staged musical based on the 1997 animated feature Anastasia.
Playwright Peter Morgan has a gift for compressing recent history into taut drama, and the NC Stage Co. production gives Frost/Nixon the immediacy and rapid pacing it needs.
Flat Rock Playhouse’s new comedy Always a Bridesmaid is a lot of fun, following four close-knit women who make good on a long-ago promise to participate in each other’s weddings.
Asheville Community Theatre does an admirable job with the NC premiere of Marc Palmieri’s play, but the esoteric material and underdeveloped characters prove problematic.
Flat Rock Playhouse’s energetic and entertaining Mamma Mia! is sure to delight those who made it the theater’s most requested musical.