If you have never encountered the original Dickens tale,or have only the vaguest recollection of it, The Montford Park Players offer you an excellent opportunity to make up this deficiency with their authentic adaptation. Watching it, you may feel yourself transported back to the nineteenth century, not only by the story and its setting but by the acting and staging, too.
Asheville’s got talent far out of proportion to the size of its population. Our lovely town’s got the market in eccentricity pretty much cornered, too. Asheville’s also got a generous heart, and its audiences are warm and indulgent. Put them all together and you’ve got Asheville Vaudeville, the latest entry in a burgeoning world of live, variety entertainment.
ACDT’s current full-length show is a spectacular and moving program of original dance.
The girls are back! Asheville’s first and only female sketch-comedy troupe presents its latest material.
From the Immediate Theatre Project and N.C. Stage: This inventive adaptation of the classic tale earns its place as an anticipated local holiday tradition.
The Hallelujah Girls, the latest from Asheville-based comedy writing team Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten, is a fun and fluffy Southern-fried treat.
Haywood Arts Repertory Theatre’s features a burgeoning young talent tackling one of Shakespeare’s toughest roles, to great success.
A daring and successful start to N.C. Stage’s 8th season.
Delving into the psyche of a woman plagued by inner demons, pathological grief and clinical depression, 4.48 Psychosis, the latest production by Corpus Theatre Collective, circles around an unnamed protagonist as she battles with her illness.
Jason Petty creates this show about Marty Robbins, the successful and eclectic country and western singer.
The Occasional Theatre Company presents Return of an Angel, its drama about the life of Thomas Wolfe.
Review of I Am My Own Wife at 35below, the biographical portrait of a transvestite who managed to survive first the Nazis and then the East German secret police.
Montford Park Players extends the run of its popular Macbeth for three more shows.
For the launch of their 15th season, Playback Theatre earned the confidence of their audience, creating a sincere-yet-playful environment to share, listen and watch.
Subject matter touched upon, besides computer dating, includes tattoos, piercings, bondage, cutting, bathroom sex, stalking, restraining orders, antidepressants, suicide hotlines — oh, and love everlasting.
A strong close to the Players’ 37th season, running through Oct. 4.
A guaranteed smile-getting adaptation of Jules Verne’s novel.
Huzzah! Peter Pan at ACT is an enormous, meticulously-crafted production.
Grandma knows best: Walking Across Egypt creates contretemps and confusions, then resolves them nicely, and amounts to a homespun slice of Southern life.
The play features some very talented actors and an unfortunately lackluster script.
Based on the award-winning book of the same name, actor/author Peter Neofotis’ Concord, Virginia presents some excellent story telling, quirky characters, and a some not-for-the-easily-offended content.
