A high-intensity comedic romp: The show appeals to anyone who has enough experience with Shakespeare’s work to find him profound, intimidating and more than a little annoying. Which is to say, most of us.
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A high-intensity comedic romp: The show appeals to anyone who has enough experience with Shakespeare’s work to find him profound, intimidating and more than a little annoying. Which is to say, most of us.
“Songs About Killing” and “Songs About Being Poor As Job’s Turkey”: A Review of Ring of Fire: The Johnny Cash Musical, now on stage at Flat Rock Playhouse.
Abrupt, disturbing plot twists as A Body of Water jumps from lightly comedic to dangerously vulnerable. Now at N.C. Stage.
On the whole, the cast seems focused yet at ease … which speaks volumes about the good, hard work done by the director for this update of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic Ugly Duckling tale.
Asheville Community Theatre’s production of Enchanted April, a fanciful staging of a 1922 British novel, is well-executed and charming.
Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre presents “Tropicana Cabaret Celebrating the Life of La Lupé,” the famous Cuban singer and dancer whose repertoire and passionate stage antics Castro considered “anti-revolutionary.”
Less is more: Review of Art at Flat Rock Playhouse.
Theatre UNCA takes on the sophisticated and challenging play Urinetown, the Musical.
A Number: Not an easy play to stage, and the current production may be more ponderous than powerful. Through May 3 at N.C. Stage.
Eve-olution: A little chick flick-y, but overall an honest, painful, charming and humorous take on modern motherhood. Through April 25 at Asheville Community Theatre’s 35Below.