I'd like to thank the worker-owners of Firestorm Café — Emma Chandler, Evan Edwards, Scott Evans, Meg Hen, Daniel Lee, Sara Lynch-Thomason, Joe Rinehart, Eli Scott and Rebbecca Soup — for their collective comment in last week's issue [Commentary, "Sound Bite Vandalism: An Anarchist Response to Media Hysteria," May 12]. At a time of great […]
Author: John Crutchfield
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Review of What the Butler Saw
If the recent news of ecological catastrophe in the Gulf, or (closer to home) vandalism and hate crimes in Our Fair City have got you feeling a little down, take my advice: Give N.C. Stage a buzz and reserve a ticket for What the Butler Saw, the near-perfect farce by British playwright Joe Orton currently running at the little theatre on Stage Lane.
Review of The Importance of Being Earnest
The more shows I see Montford’s intrepid players undertake, the more fond of them I become. It’s community theater at its best, as far as I’m concerned. The vibe with the audience is supportive and enthusiastic, and you can’t help but feel that everyone, both onstage and off, is having a tremendously good time.
Review of Dead Man’s Cell Phone
The play is good entertainment, full of comic quirks and flights of fancy, and yet it also feels intelligent and profound. If that profundity turns out to be less real than imagined, well, you can’t expect to have your lobster bisque and eat it too.
Review of Short Order Durang
There’s something to be said for knowing one’s place in the world, and a show presented at “The Usual Joli Grey Admiral’s Vault, Social Aid, Yacht Club, and Speakeasy off Broadway” is one that is definitely not afraid to embrace the local.
Review of Travelogue: Dances of Our Migration
ACDT’s current full-length show is a spectacular and moving program of original dance.
Review of Maybe She’s Born With It—Maybe It’s LYLAS
The girls are back! Asheville’s first and only female sketch-comedy troupe presents its latest material.
Live from WVL Radio Theatre: It’s a Wonderful Life
From the Immediate Theatre Project and N.C. Stage: This inventive adaptation of the classic tale earns its place as an anticipated local holiday tradition.
The Beauty Queen of Leenane at N.C. Stage
A daring and successful start to N.C. Stage’s 8th season.
Review of Marty’s El Paso at Flat Rock Playhouse
Jason Petty creates this show about Marty Robbins, the successful and eclectic country and western singer.
Macbeth at Montford Park Players
A strong close to the Players’ 37th season, running through Oct. 4.
Review of Crazy Bag at N.C. Stage
Crazy Bag at N.C. Stage: There was laughter, there were tears, there was a standing ovation. It was clear that the material itself and its presentation resonated very strongly with everyone. Well, almost everyone.
Review of Cymbeline at Montford Park
Montford Park Players takes on Shakespeare’s strange and complicated (and obscure) Cymbeline. Tragedy? Romance? “Problem play”? Read on and find out.
Review of The Last Supper at the BeBe Theatre
Following last year’s Heathers and The Twilight Zone, Dark Horse Theatre adapts the 1995 noir comedy The Last Supper for the stage.
Happy Hour at the BeBe
Let’s suppose the end-of-the-workday routine of cheap pitchers and ESPN has grown a bit stale for you … Here’s my suggestion: come 7:15, grab your drinking buddy and head down to Commerce Street. Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre’s current show, The Physics of Happy Hour, will not only defy the gravity of your postmodern ennui, they’ll also wet your whistle for you.
The Bard at a Bargain: Review of Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)
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.
Review of Ring of Fire: The Johnny Cash Musical
“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.
Cabaret Fever at the BeBe Theatre
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.”
Urinetown the Musical at Theatre UNCA
Theatre UNCA takes on the sophisticated and challenging play Urinetown, the Musical.