Perry Tannenbaum
Review: FLIP at Charlotte Ballet
Funkier and more humbly budgeted than Charlotte Ballet's extravaganzas at larger venues, FLIP at the McBride Bonnefoux provided a different kind of adventure, substituted promise for polish, and dug deeper into the company's soul.
Review: THE OLD MAID / QUEEN MARY / MARTHA GRAHAM at Spoleto
Scottish Ballet's MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS is likely to stand as the most spectacular triumph at Spoleto Festival USA 2026, and festival founder Gian Carlo Menotti's 1939 radio opera, THE OLD MAID AND THE THIEF, will probably remain the best theatre.
Review: THE NOTEBOOK THE MUSICAL at Belk Theater
THE NOTEBOOK The Musical was a charming chamber piece when I first read Bekah Brunstetter's adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' breakout bestseller.
Review: ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK’S NEW WORLD SYMPHONY at Knight Theater
When Charlotte Symphony announced their 2025-26 schedule last March, they couldn’t have predicted the serendipity of two recent concerts a year later.
Review: SUFFS at Blumenthal Performing Arts
We are gloriously entertained and usefully educated by SUFFS, with a score from Shaina Taub that outshines HAMILTON, but perhaps we should also be more challenged.
Review: THE OUTSIDERS at Belk Theater
Musically and dramatically, THE OUTSIDERS plays like a top-notch chamber version of WEST SIDE STORY: less-heated animosities between the gangs, no symphonic aspirations to the music, and no hormones - none of these Greaser dudes has a girl! But when the music, the jagged choreography, and the specia
Review: THE WINTER'S TALE at Davidson Community Players
Yes, Davidson Community Players’ executive director Steve Kaliski certainly had a point this past weekend when he declared, “My kingdom for The Autumn’s Tale!” DCP had invited Shepherd Shakespeare Company, which normally performs outdoors at The Barn on Monroe Road, to perform THE WINTER’S
Review: THE SUNSET LIMITED at The Arts Factory
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Review: AUSTEN'S PRIDE at Blumenthal Performing Arts
What better way to celebrate Jane Austen's 250th anniversary than to introduce an admirable musical adaptation of her most beloved book, Pride and Prejudice? Thanks to Lindsay Warren Baker & Amanda Jacobs' AUSTEN PRIDE, we have a near-perfect celebration, beautifully balancing P&P's exquisite comedy
Review: LIFE OF PI at Belk Theater
Lolita Chakrabarti, in her stage adaptation of LIFE OF PI seems to wish for a more delicate balance between the veracity of Pi’s two different tales of his harrowing sea adventure.
Review: THE TURN OF THE SCREW AT SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA at Dock Street Theatre
Spoleto Festival USA's bipolar weekend of WHITE BOX and POLAR BEAR & PENGUIN was an admirable pairing for young and old -but not as grippingly theatrical as the world premiere staging of Benjamin Britten's opera, THE TURN OF THE SCREW, retelling the ghostly Henry James novella under the direction of
Review: PARADE at Belk Theater
As a Yeshiva boy with Ashkenazi DNA, my reaction to PARADE may have been more visceral than that of people who dislike OUR TOWN staging, see no reason for Leo Frank's lynching to become a big musical, or simply don't have Jewish skin and blood in the game.
Review: MARY JANE at Three Bone Theatre
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Review: A MUSICAL OFFERING at St. Mark's Lutheran
Bach Akademie Charlotte brought a wondrous quintet to St.
Review: SOME LIKE IT HOT at Belk Theater
While Marc Shaiman's score often sounds effortful in striving to make SOME LIKE IT HOT what it was in the first place—a musical with cherry-picked hits for Marilyn Monroe to sing—the book by Matthew Lopez and Amber Ruffin helps the story and its main characters diversify and evolve.
Review: & JULIET at Belk Theater
What did our critic think of & JULIET at Belk Theater?
Review: GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY at Blumenthal Performing Arts
At Belk Theater, with a house twice as large as the venues where GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY played London and Broadway, the touring musical seems more like a distant mirage than a precious rolling stone by a dream team.
Review: SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA CHAMBER MUSIC at Dock Street Theatre
Wiancko is more about theming each of the 11 concerts in the chamber series, more about the Zen of each program.
Review: HADESTOWN at Belk Theater
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