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    Tag:  Parkway Playhouse

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    Theater education programs encourage bright futures for area youths

    Posted on March 10, 2022March 7, 2022 by Edwin Arnaudin

    The Parkway Playhouse, Montford Moppets and Flat Rock Playhouse’s Studio 52 instill life skills in local young people through the magic of theater.

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    Local theater companies stage horror production­s

    Posted on October 7, 2021October 4, 2021 by Edwin Arnaudin

    The Magnetic Theatre, Mountainside Theatre, Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre and Parkway Playhouse host new seasonally appropriate productions.

    3.8 K views+ArtsTheater

    Around Town: Hominy Creek Greenway marks 10 years with outdoor art exhibition

    Posted on September 28, 2021September 29, 2021 by Justin McGuire

    Hominy Creek Greenway marks 10 years with outdoor art installation. Plus, an Asheville musician recounts wild outlaw country tales in new book, HART presents The Diary of Anne Frank and the Black Mountain Center for the Arts returns to live theater.

    3.6 K views1Art NewsArts

    Theater review: ‘Oliver!’ at Parkway Playhouse

    Posted on July 2, 2018July 2, 2018 by Jeff Messer

    As the titular Oliver, Faith Creech is exuberance and charm wrapped in a skilled young actor. She shines the minute she takes the stage.

    3.1 K views1ArtsTheater

    Theater review: ‘Blithe Spirit’ at Parkway Playhouse

    Posted on May 7, 2018May 7, 2018 by Kai Elijah Hamilton

    There’s a charming vintage quality to ‘Blithe Spirit’ that truly resonates. The show is onstage though May 19.

    4.3 K views+ArtsPerformance ArtTheater

    Theater review: ‘On Golden Pond’ at Parkway Playhouse

    Posted on May 16, 2017May 16, 2017 by Kai Elijah Hamilton

    Sometimes the very best stories simply drift along, serving as a delicate reflection of the ordinary. After all, for the most part, that is life. The poignant play On Golden Pond by Ernest Thompson — just such a story — opens Parkway Playhouse’s 2017 season. It runs through Saturday, through May 27.

    4.3 K views+ArtsCommunity NewsPerformance ArtTheater

    Theater Review: “Grease” at Parkway Playhouse

    Posted on August 1, 2016August 1, 2016 by Jeff Messer

    Parkway Playhouse was forced to replace West Side Story with Grease, having lost the rights to the former when the authors boycotted North Carolina in protest of House Bill 2. Grease may ultimately be the better pick.

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    The Ballad of Frankie Silver debuts in Burnsville

    Posted on June 3, 2016June 2, 2016 by Steph Guinan

    The harrowing tale of an 1830 murder in MItchell County is the basis for a new production at the Parkway Playhouse. Director and playwright Andrew Gall adapted the script from a book of the same title written by New York Times best-selling author Sharyn McCrumb.

    2 likes15.3 K views+ArtsTheater

    Parkway Playhouse loses West Side Story due to HB2 boycott

    Posted on May 6, 2016May 9, 2016 by Jeff Messer

    The Parkway Playhouse in Burnsville recently announced that permission to stage the classic musical Westside Story have been pulled by the rights holders. That loss came as a reaction to the state’s controversial House Bill 2, aka “the bathroom bill.”

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    Parkway Playhouse’s 2016 season opens with Steel Magnolias

    Parkway Playhouse’s 2016 season opens with Steel Magnolias

    Posted on April 16, 2016April 15, 2016 by Thomas Calder

    PRESS RELEASE:  BURNSVILLE, NC: The celebrated Southern classic of family and friendship, Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling and directed by Andrew Gall, is set to open at Parkway Playhouse on May 7. Performances continue on Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm and Sundays at 3:00pm, through May 21. Tickets range from $10 for students to $20 […]

    3.2 K views+ArtsTheater

    Holiday theater around WNC

    Posted on December 2, 2015November 30, 2015 by Alli Marshall

    There is one place where the holidays work out perfectly (or perfectly imperfectly): on the stage. And this year, local theater companies are pulling out the stops.

    3.9 K views+ArtsMusicPerformance ArtVisual Art

    Theater review: “All Shook Up” at Parkway Playhouse

    Posted on July 31, 2015July 29, 2015 by Jeff Messer

    The show is filled with hard-to-believe conceits and antics, including cross-dressing, mixed-up identities and a few predictable twists. There are just enough sincerely sweet plot lines to make the more loony parts palatable. Regardless, the show had the audience swaying, clapping and cheering at every leg-twisting, hip-shaking turn.

    5.3 K views1ArtsTheater

    Smart bets: Esley: The Life and Musical Legacy of Lesley Riddle

    Posted on June 25, 2015June 26, 2015 by Alli Marshall

    Jeff Messer turns his focus to the folk and country music contributions of Burnsville native Lesley Riddle. Esley: The Life and Musical Legacy of Lesley Riddle, runs at Parkway Playhouse Saturday, June 27-Saturday, July 11.

    2 likes5.9 K views2ArtsMusicTheater

    The best of 2014 in local theater

    Posted on December 30, 2014December 30, 2014 by Jeff Messer

    There’s an old saying that goes, “Theater has been failing for thousands of years.” The mid-2000s saw some lean times for the arts, and many theater organizations have struggled to maintain, reinvent and grow new audiences. But 2014 felt like a page had turned for the better on most counts. The arts in general (and […]

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    It’s A Wonderful Life, revisited

    Posted on November 26, 2014November 20, 2014 by Steph Guinan

    Live theater is current, ever-changing and immediate. Case in point, The Immediate Theatre Project’s performance of Live From WVL Radio: It’s A Wonderful Life. Taking the beloved holiday tale and making it relevant to current times, the performance aims to bypass excessive nostalgia and present the moving story as a reinterpretation. To recap, the play […]

    3.8 K views+ArtsTheater

    Theater review: “Ghost Riders” is a haunting time-traveling tale

    Posted on June 14, 2014June 26, 2014 by Jeff Messer

    Sharyn McCrumb’s best-selling novel, Ghost Riders, comes to life (and after-life) onstage at Parkway Playhouse in Burnsville as its summer season moves into high gear. The tale, the characters and the mood of the play creep like an eerie fog moving along the ridgelines of the Appalachian Mountains.

    3.5 K views2ArtsTheater

    Peter Pan at Parkway Playhouse

    Posted on July 7, 2013July 7, 2013 by Alli Marshall

    Last chance to visit Neverland: The Burnsville theatre stages three more performances on July 11, 12, and 13 at 7:30 p.m.

    2.7 K views+Art News

    Good sports

    Posted on September 29, 2012September 29, 2012 by Worth Weller

    Football-themed play “Between the Tackles,” which opened last weekend at Burnsville’s Parkway Playhouse, is clearly a pick six, both in terms of fast paced acting and of gut wrenching humor.

    2.0 K views+Theater
    Along About Sundown

    Along About Sundown

    Posted on August 26, 2011August 26, 2011 by Alli Marshall


    This evening, Parkway Playhouse in Burnsville premieres a new musical memoir of Bascom Lamar Lunsford.

    2.1 K views+Art News

    Smart Bet extra: Seussical

    Posted on July 15, 2011July 15, 2011 by Alli Marshall

    Part Broadway musical, part Dr. Seuss send up, Seussical is on stage at Parkway Playhouse Thursday, July 28-Saturday, Aug. 6.

    1.4 K views+Art News

    Review of The Ballad of Tom Dooley

    Posted on August 20, 2010August 20, 2010 by Steven Samuels

    Parkway Playhouse world premieres the original, full-scale musical, based on the sad tale of Tom Dula.

    2.0 K views+Theater
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