Part performance, part storytelling (but not a “tellebration”, Chalmers pointed out), the Listen to This series offers a laid-back atmosphere for performers to tell largely personal stories linked by an overarching theme, mostly to comedic effect.
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Big Bang at the BeBe Theatre
If you missed the latest offering at Asheville’s BeBe Theatre, you missed what was surely one of this fall’s most exciting programs of live performance.
Review of The Little Foxes
The Little Foxes is the terribly sad but wildly entertaining story of one of the worst families imaginable.
Review of Asheville Vaudeville
The lobby of ACT was packed to claustrophobic heights, filled with sparkly vamp accoutrements, homemade wings and period costumes, only some of which were actually worn by performers. Asheville Vaudeville has certainly found a new home, and their lengthy summer hiatus created a sense of anticipation that kicked off their new season and new venue with a bang.
Review of The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Early in his illustrious career, Neil Simon was often criticized for the shallowness of his characters and the frivolity of his material. While these deficiencies seemed in no way to detract from audiences’ enjoyment of his plays, Simon responded by writing The Prisoner of Second Avenue, an apparently sincere effort to treat of more serious themes and more complex characters, albeit in a comic framework.
Review of Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
There are few greater theatre-going pleasures than coming to grips with one of the handful of theatrical masterworks any given culture manages to create.
Dauntless performs Dracula at the Masonic Lodge
While the theatre-going experience is, first-and-foremost, about the play, there’s certainly something to be said for ambiance. And, in the case of Dauntless Productions’ performance of Dracula, I have to recommend the play to anyone with even a passing interest in Halloween/vampires/things spooky/the Masonic temple. See this show — which runs through Saturday, Oct. 30 — if only for the experience of being in the appropriately spooky auditorium of the Masonic Temple.
Review of A Few Good Men
The pace is so relentless, the flashbacks are so abrupt, the sly Perry Mason-esque moments of “I just have one more little question” are so predictable, and (in the current production by Flat Rock Playhouse) the actors are just so darn good-looking, that pretty soon one begins to feel that one is in fact watching a TV drama.
Review of The Drowsy Chaperone
One can’t help but love Scott Treadway’s rubberized face.
Review of Oliver!
As the title character, Tim Bates has a shy and captivating smile which he doesn’t over-use, as well as a charming air of slight bewilderment that is perfect for the role.
Review of Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story
The juke-box musical’s been a hit at theatres worldwide, and the HART audience’s palpable enthusiasm on opening night made it clear why. Holly’s music just makes you want to dance — any old way you please.
Review of Twelfth Night
The Montford Park Players have outdone themselves with their final show of the summer season.
Bright Star Theatre to perform in Washington
The Asheville-based touring theatre troupe brings its sparkling production of The Ugly Duckling to the National Theatre.
Review of Scottch Tomedy IV
For its one hour, ten minute length, Get Your Mind Out of the Butter may well represent the best live sketch comedy available in this town.
Review of Catfish Moon
Everyone leaves the theatre feeling like they learned something, or at least re-learned something, about the preciousness of life and friendship.
Review of Country Roads
Let’s face it, in this day and age of hipster sensibility, the tortured optimism and simplicity of Denver’s lyrics and his persona are the very anti-thesis of cool.
Review of The 39 Steps
If frivolity is what you’re after, Flat Rock Playhouse’s production delivers.
Review of The Ballad of Tom Dooley
Parkway Playhouse world premieres the original, full-scale musical, based on the sad tale of Tom Dula.
Review of The Producers
“Funny is money,” Mel Brooks has always liked to say, and with the musical The Producers, he proved it.
Review of Chicago
HART’s production has all that musical theatre requires for a good time: sassy sexiness, big dance numbers and a plot that engages and remains relevant 35 years after its debut.
Review of Tuesdays with Morrie
Mitch and Morrie are embodied by superlative actors unerringly committed to their roles, in this exceptional production at SART.