Representatives from SART, HART and ACT discuss the novel challenges of planning a theater season during a pandemic.
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A&E Roundup: Open Hearts celebrates new mural
Open Hearts and Ian Wilkinson collaborate, ACT premieres Maria Young’s new play and more area arts news.
A&E Roundup: BRCC debuts rare anagama kiln
The Flat Rock campus adds an exciting piece of pottery-making equipment, SoundSpace@Rabbit’s opens and more area arts news.
In photos: #RedAlertRESTART
Local live event and entertainment professionals lit up their businesses in red to bring awareness to a struggling industry.
Smart Bets: Costume Drama: A Fashion Show
Asheville Community Theatre’s annual “Project Runway”-esque show pivots will be livestreamed on Aug. 8.
Smart Bets: ACT TV
Asheville Community Theater has debuted six creative online video series, adding new episodes each week.
Local theaters remain cautiously optimistic amid COVID-19 closures
Representatives from The Magnetic Theatre, North Carolina Stage Company and Asheville Community Theatre discuss their plans during uncertain times.
Theater review: ‘Brilliant Traces’ at 35below
Robert Dale Walker (of Rough Play theater company) has done an extremely sound job of directing such a bleak play. He has the show stripped to the bare essentials, allowing it to challenge ideology and faith.
Smart Bets: Jamie Laval’s Celtic Christmas
The holiday tradition returns to Asheville Community Theatre on Dec. 28.
Holiday-themed productions around Asheville
Local offerings range from classic ballets, poignant soul searches and snarky send-ups of this month of family drama and heightened emotions.
Monica McDaniel’s new play takes on sexual abuse
“I love talking about things that people don’t want to talk about, and this is a touchy subject,” McDaniel says. “Nonetheless, we need to be comfortable enough with each other to have these talks.”
Theater review: ‘Rabbit Hole’ at Asheville Community Theatre
As in ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ things aren’t always what they seem.
Smart Bets: Costume Drama — A Fashion Show
The annual design competition returns to Asheville Community Theatre on July 6.
Theater review: ‘Hands on a Hardbody’ at ACT
The show slyly has a lot to say, but keeps it cleverly buried under the circus-like central concept.
Screen Scene: Local film news
Asheville-based filmmaker Rod Murphy teams with WCU for a video series on the opioid epidemic, Movies in the Park returns and more.
ACT launches a program for emerging theatrical writers
The Artistic Horizons program “gives local artists the opportunity to pursue new creative paths in the theater,” says the ACT website. “The 2019-20 Artistic Horizons season will consist of three shows performed in 35below; each of these three shows will receive three performances over one weekend.”
Theater review: ‘Alice in Wonderland’ at Asheville Community Theatre
Like all great children’s classics, it’s wise nonsense for audiences of all ages.
Theater review: ‘Footloose’ at Asheville Community Theatre
Footloose touches most intriguingly on an era when being free and expressing oneself with music and dance was bitterly frowned upon by certain belief systems.
Smart Bets: Jamie Laval’s Celtic Christmas
The holiday program of music, dance, poetry and stories from Scotland, Ireland, Brittany and Iceland returns to Asheville Community Theatre on Dec. 29.
Costume Drama returns to the ACT Mainstage
On Thursday, July 6, the seventh annual Costume Drama will take place at the newly renovated Asheville Community Theatre.
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.