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.
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Appalachian history buffs and music lovers, don’t miss this one
Catch the last weekend of the world premiere musical documentary Esley: The Life and Musical Legacy of Leslie Riddle. Riddle was an African-American Burnsville native who traveled with A.P. Carter of the Carter Family, searching out traditional mountain music and digging the roots of country music.
Get thee to the Hazel Robinson amphitheatre
Never been to a Montford Park Players production? Here’s a primer, plus a review of the excellent Taming of the Shrew.
Review of the Autumn Players’ Playboy of the Western World
The Autumn Players presents The Playboy of the Western World, a charming comedy set in a pub on the northwest coast of Ireland in the early 1900s.
Review of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers: Big, campy fun, well thought-out and executed, from the dancing to the singing to the set and costumes.
Cries and whispers (and laughs): Review of Brighton Beach Memoirs
Cries and whispers (and laughs): Review of Brighton Beach Memoirs at Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre.
Afterbirth of a Nation: The Feral Chihuahuas at the Asheville Arts Center
The Feral Chihuahuas: From “Gansta Rap for the Hearing Impaired” to “The Horrors of Gay Marriage,” a review of a recent performance.
This weekend on a shoestring
Is it just me, or does a weekend that starts with a free festival seem somehow more auspicious than those weekends that don’t? (Even if you’re not a fan of this Friday’s Downtown After Five lineup, you can get your money’s worth—$0—in people-watching alone.) Beyond that, there’s free theater, a CD release and some of the area’s best-loved bands—including the reunion of Pure, on hiatus for the past 18 years. All for five bucks or less.
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.
Death of a Salesman at SART
“He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. … A salesman is got to dream, boy.” — Willy Loman
Romantic antics: Review of ‘Til Beth Do Us Part at ACT
‘Til Beth Do Us Part, the new comedy by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten, premieres at Asheville Community Theatre.
Who is that naked woman? Review of Perfect Wedding at Flat Rock Playhouse
If you enjoy a good British sex comedy (and who doesn’t?), or if you’re intrigued by the premise of a farce that starts with a groom-to-be awaking hungover, on his wedding day, in the bridal suite, beside a naked woman he doesn’t know but suspects he slept with the night before — Perfect Wedding, at Flat Rock Playhouse, won’t disappoint.
A Beautiful Show: Review of A Beautiful View at N.C. Stage
You will rarely see a better contemporary play, and you’re unlikely to see stronger performances, surer direction or a design scheme more harmonious with an unusual work’s demands.
Big fun: Review of Big Criminals at SART
SART’s world-premiere play Big Criminals is clever, unpretentiously thoughtful, well-constructed and chock-a-block with plot twists and zingers.
This weekend on a shoestring
This weekend is shaping up to be so action-packed and event-heavy that we had to add extra bonus Tuesday material. Friday starts with Downtown After 5; there’s also free reggae, free indie-jazz, free Shakespeare and free hula-hooping.
Review of Man of La Mancha at Flat Rock Playhouse
Man of La Mancha at Flat Rock Playhouse: A musical antidote to pervasive cynicism.
She likes to overshare: Review of I Wrote This Play…
An unmoored life and empty sexual flings: Review of I Wrote This Play to Make You Love Me at N.C. 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.
Insights from the Sightlines writers
We asked the Sightlines writers what makes a good review and how this project could impact Asheville’s theatre community.
The hard sell
The no holds barred interview with Dixie Longate of off-Broadway show Dixie’s Tupperware Party