The play was written by Larry Larson and Levi Lee nearly 40 years ago. Of course, the Cold War era of the early 1980s informs the anxiety of the world being left a smoldering heap with few surviving. And it still works well today.
Conscious Party: Totally Rad ’80s Dance Party
The Totally Rad ’80s Dance Party fundraiser for Attic Salt Theatre Company takes place July 14 at the theatre’s Arts Space.
Theater review: ‘Oliver!’ at Parkway Playhouse
As the titular Oliver, Faith Creech is exuberance and charm wrapped in a skilled young actor. She shines the minute she takes the stage.
Smart Bets: Love Makes a Home
The one-woman play about Rebecca Boone comes to the Folk Art Center on June 30.
Theater review: ‘The Love List’ at Flat Rock Playhouse
With ‘The Love List’ we are reminded that the perfect person doesn’t exist, and it’s often our flaws that make us unique and lovable.
Theater review: ‘Eleemosynary’ by Different Strokes
The play is told in confessional moments, directed at the audience. These give way to flashbacks that fill in gaps. The conclusion will leave the audience a little teary-eyed but also enriched
Theater review: ‘The Full Monty’ at Asheville Community Theatre
Jerry, played by Corey Link, and his best friend Dave (Michael Crosa) must find new jobs in a rust-belt town with few options. Lurking beneath their tough exteriors, these unemployed steel mill workers fear being losers.
Theater review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ by Montford Park Players
Worth mentioning, the Hazel Robinson Amphitheater is, itself a character in this production. The setting allows for the actors to dart into the audience, chirping birds add to the ambiance, and when the first stars come out, the spell of a midsummer’s night is complete.
The American Myth Center stages an Appalachian-themed ‘Romeo and Juliet’
Director Aaron Snook began to search for a time in American history with a similar feel and discovered plenty of parallels in the Reconstruction era — specifically, the legendary Appalachian feud between the Hatfield and McCoy families.
SART announces a new season and future plans
SART’s summer season is a full slate of diverse shows, kicking off with the raucous comedy ‘Don’t Dress For Dinner’ (May 31 – June 17).
Theater review: ‘Guys and Dolls’ at Hendersonville Community Theatre
At its heart, Guys and Dolls is a story about the redemptive power of love. The clash of religious morality and the amoral streets of New York never overshadows the lightheartedness of the story.
Smart Bets: Full-Tilt Boogie at the Big Bang Diner
The “comedic love letter to all levels of pop-culture fandom” debuts May 24 at The Magnetic Theatre.
Theater review: ‘The Mercy Seat’ at 35below
While it’s unlikely that viewers leave two-person drama ‘The Mercy Seat’ laughing or smiling, but it’s a production that will stick with audiences for a while.
Poet modernizes Asheville opera scene with a sensual, two-man production
Premiering Friday, May 11 at the Asheville Masonic Temple, When Adonis Calls reveals the intimate exchanges between an older, been-there, done-that-type writer and a young, eager fan.
Theater review: ‘Blithe Spirit’ at Parkway Playhouse
There’s a charming vintage quality to ‘Blithe Spirit’ that truly resonates. The show is onstage though May 19.
Theater review: ‘Sense and Sensibility’ at HART
HART’s production is a romantic comedy that celebrates love’s triumph. Deftly embedded in the play are the persistent sexist and ageist attitudes that Austen highlighted in her 1811 novel.
Theater review: ‘The Gin Game’ at Hendersonville Community Theatre
D.L. Coburn’s 1976 Pulitzer Prize-winning play opens on an old man playing solitaire. Weller Martin seems content enough in this low-end retirement community. But when he meets the new resident Fonsia Dorsey he is more than eager to cheer her up and teach her the game of gin.
Theater review: ‘Burden’ by Immediate Theatre Project
This haunting production follows a despondent and drifting young blogger/journalist in search of a career-making story about corruption.
Theater review: ‘Doll’ at The Magnetic Theatre
Created by Asheville-based playwright Brenda Lunsford Lilly, the production is a sly 1960s homage to Henrik Ibsen’s notable play, A Doll’s House. The show remains onstage through Saturday, May 5.
Theater review: ‘Diary of Anne Frank’ at Asheville Community Theatre
In the story, Anne tries to live as normal a life as anyone could in this situation, even as her world crumbles around her. She mostly keeps a bright attitude, believing that people are basically good at heart.
Theater review: ‘Failure, A Love Story’ by Asheville Creative Arts
The experience of Failure is one that transports the audience, and will cause more than a few lumps in the throat as viewers are show something akin to a Sam Shepard play adapted by Wes Anderson.