I just wanted to let the Montford Park Players know that they do a great job doing Shakespeare in the Park at the Hazel Robinson Amphitheater. I enjoy every play that they do. I have been in two plays with the Players, and loved it. They are a great group of people and joy to […]
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This weekend on a shoestring
This weekend offers dance, outdoor festivals, live music and theater. As always, Xpress highlights the best in low-cost weekend entertainment.
Even more Sex and How To Have It
Due to the play’s popularity, The Magnetic Theatre announces an additional show this Saturday at 10 p.m. Xpress will give away a pair of tickets today at noon.
Macbeth meets surrealism
John Crutchfield’s latest play, Come Thick Night, will premiere at the Asheville Fringe Arts Festival next weekend. Get ready for some “wild, funny and disturbing” theater.
Hare apparent
Contortion and mime duo Button Wagon returns to Asheville’s BeBe Theatre this weekend with new show “Trash Rabbit.” Shows on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
The Magnetic Field bar and café prepares to close
After two years in business, The Magnetic Field will end its restaurant and bar operations and focus on the theater.
Once In a Lifetime
WCU’s School of Stage and Screen presents Once in a Lifetime, the story of three vaudevillians who take on Hollywood.
Good sports
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.
Review: MILF at The Magnetic Field
The plot is ignited by the sheer star power of its two main actors. Tracey Johnston-Crum is luminous. James Meador’s delivery is precise and pointed.
Review: R. Buckminster Fuller at N.C. Stage
Don’t believe all that can be accomplished by one actor, some able directing and a sensational set? Then what you must do is come see this R. Buckminster Fuller, early, so there is time to come back and see it again.
Review: Hard Travelin’ with Woody at N.C. Stage
It’s a one-hour, one-man show that pays tribute to the great folk singer Woody Guthrie, at the same time as endearing his story, music and motivation to a contemporary audience.
Costume Drama recap
The inaugural fashion show, a fundraiser for ACT, brought in 25 designers, over $7,000 and a little mystery as well. Read about who won and watch a slide show.
“Last Stop, Old” kicks off ACT’s DramaRama
The week-long fundraiser begins this Saturday with the 2:30 p.m. staged reading of a play by Patsy Clarke and Ellen Landau. Clarke has a long local history, including performing in Asheville Community Theatre’s first play in 1946. This is not only a world premiere for “Last Stop, Old,” but a homecoming for Clarke. Photo by Rob Storrs.
Review of Brief Encounters: New Magnetic Voices 2012
It’s all a frothy dessert for a summer evening, with more substance than you thought when you were spooning it in.
Smart bets web extra: “The Temps”
Forty Fingers & A Missing Tooth stages its first full-length production at The Magnetic Field starting this Thursday, June 14.
Last two nights for the Complete Works of Wm. Shakespeare (Abridged)
I’ve seen this play the past three years, and each time it got funnier. Come out tonight or tomorrow for a very fine evening of entertainment, in a lovely outdoor venue and to support the treasure we have in Montford Park Players.
Review of Tartuffe at UNCA
Onstage now at UNCA’s Carol Belk Theater, the all-student production of Tartuffe, or The Imposter, packs in everything a good play must: sex, betrayal, religion, humility, delusion, and demise.
Review: Love Child
Plays about life in the theater can feel a little cliché — the easy image of the play-within-the-play dating back to Shakespeare, and beyond. For an audience of non-actors, such storylines can be a little too self-absorbed to be relatable. Fortunately that’s not the case with Love Child, now at N.C. Stage.
Plumber butt, penis jokes and the return of the ‘stache
The Feral Chihuahuas fortel the end of the world in “The Chihuacolypse,” running two weekend at BeBe Theatre.
CalCast: Feb. 2-5
This weekend will overflow with music, dance, theater and one adorable groundhog. Take out your calendar and let CalCast do the planning for you.
Review of Fight Girl Battle World
The fast-paced if somewhat chaotic action features bizarre aliens, cool ray guns, girls in tight outfits, a loquacious robot, spaceships and fire-fights, a Chinese dragon ride across a desert planet, an intergalactic zookeeper, copious pseudo kung-fu and/or quasi ninja shenanigans, puppetry so bad it’s good, and an implement of “enhanced interrogation” I’ll call a tickle drill.