Review: MEAN GIRLS at Belk Theater
Tina Fey proves she still knows high school in her musicalized version of MEAN GIRLS, but she makes rookie mistakes about what to leave out and what to leave in.
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Review: TONI STONE at Three Bone Theatre
Toni Stone hit a homerun for me.
Review: SUCCESSION, Stage Play Written By Charles L. White
From my perspective, the trait of a good stage play is the ability to generate conversations between the theater patrons with a 1,000 (figuratively) possible interpretations and possible outcomes.
Feature: The National Black Theatre Festival Is Back
'Put On Your Purple And Black.
Review: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD at Belk Theater
Amid a banquet of juicy roles doled out by Aaron Sorkin in his adaptation of Harper Lee's TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Richard Thomas feasts the fullest, delivering the most powerful, staggering work I’ve seen from him in my 59+ years of watching his most memorable performances live on Broadway, live in
Review: SISTER ACT at Matthews Playhouse
We may have underestimated Cheri and Bill Steinkellner's musical adaptation of Paul Rudnick's SISTER ACT screenplay, moving the action from Vegas to Philly and making the show more character-driven.
BWW Review: UNTIL THE FLOOD at Spoleto's Festival Hall
UNTIL THE FLOOD is an amazing, transformative theatre experience, a lesson for us all - including playwright Dael Orlandersmith, who researched it in Ferguson and St.
BWW Review: HAMILTON Returns To Charlotte Post Pandemic at Belk Theatre
Read our critic's review.
BWW Review: KAT EDMONSON Brings Latenight Chic to Middle C
With a mix of perennial favorites and time-tested originals, KAT EDMONSON made her long-anticipated Charlotte debut, charming a latenight Middle C Jazz Club audience
BWW Review: Patti LaBelle Takes the Stage at Belk Theater
'When You Talk About Love'.
BWW Review: CHLOE' ARNOLD'S SYNCOPATED LADIES LIVE! at Knight Theater
Syncopated Ladies, founded by Chloe' Arnold, is the most viewed female tap dance band in history.
BWW Review: STEP AFRIKA! at Blumenthal Performing Arts Center's Booth Playhouse
Step Afrika! An infusion of drums, dance, and singing that foretells the true uprising of the Stono Rebellion that birth The Negro Act of 1740.
BWW Review: RAVEL PIANO CONCERTO at Charlotte Symphony Orchestra
Stewart Goodyear was scintillating in his Charlotte Symphony debut, but the Stravinsky-Weill lineup that followed wasn't an anticlimax.
BWW Review: AIN'T TOO PROUD TO BEG at Belk Theater
Ain’t Too Proud To Beg (ATPTB), The Life and Times Of The Temptations, based on the book by Dominique Morisseau, is a compelling, “tell-all” biographical musical about the triumphs and trials of Motown’s number one male group.
BWW Review: BNS Productions Present BLACK NAVITY
BNS Productions present an adaptation of the Langston Hughes classic, 'Black Nativity', directed by Jermaine Nakia Lee
BWW Review: A CONVERSATION WITH STACEY ABRAMS at Ovens Auditiorium
A Conversation With Stacey Abrams was phenomenal, fun, and frank.
BWW Review: BNS Productions Encore Presentation: MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM at Duke Energy Theater
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is one of ten of August Wilson's productions about the African American experience.
BWW Review: Warehouse PAC's SWEAT Deploys Stellar Cast on Stellar Script
Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning SWEAT analyses the effects of NAFTA on steelworkers in Reading, PA - a microcosm of why blue-collar and union workers jumped out of the pockets of Democratic politicians in the 2000 election and how the seeds of xenophobic Trumpism were first planted
Three Bone Theatre Responds to this Moment with HANDS UP
As relevant and compelling as it was back in 2014 in responding to Michael Brown, HANDS UP is a perfect way for Three Bone Theatre to return to the Charlotte scene, more activist and more woke.
BWW Review: Symphony Bolsters CHOPIN PIANO CONCERTO With Improved Beethoven
An R&J Valentine's Day theme, an ongoing Beethoven celebration, and a CHOPIN PIANO CONCERTO that few at Charlotte Symphony had likely played before were the crisscrossing storylines at the latest classics series concert at Knight Theater.
BWW Review: Sports Seasons and Generations Clash in Brand New Sheriff's FENCES
Their third dive into August Wilson's ten-play Pittsburgh Cycle, Brand New Sheriff's FENCES may be their best yet, with an outstanding cast, led by Jonavan Adams - and an outstanding director, Corlis Hayes, who has been here before.
BWW Review: Matthews MAMMA MIA! Mixes Summer Romance and Autumn Regret
Director Billy Ensley has lured a bevy of seasoned Charlotte musical stars to a fine looking Matthews Playhouse production of MAMMA MIA! - and he has found a sensational newcomer to ignite the action.
BWW Review: Cherokee Nation Claims Territory Next to APPALACHIAN SPRING
Two American warhorses, Samuel Barber's 'Adagio' and Aaron Copland's APPALACHIAN SPRING, topped the marquee, but William Brittelle's 'Si Otsedoha' stole the show at Charlotte Symphony's all-American concert at Belk Theater.
BWW Review: A Disfigured War Vet Struggles to Find – and See – Herself in UGLY LIES THE BONE
With Andrea King as a disfigured war vet going through an excruciating rehab in Three Bone Theatre's UGLY LIES THE BONE, it's a perverse pleasure to have Scott Tynes-Miller and Peter Finnegan making asses of of themselves as they make the road to recovery that much tougher.
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Unto These Hills Mountainside Theatre (5/30-8/22) |
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Her Name Was Frankie: A Frankie Silver Story Parkway Playhouse (10/02-10/11) |
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Sister Act Flat Rock Playhouse (10/02-10/25) |
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Annie Parkway Playhouse (6/26-7/12) |
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Wednesdays: Live Music with The Olsons at Lucky 32 - GSO | No Cover!! Lucky 32 Southern Kitchen (8/05-8/05) |
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Rumpelstiltskin Flat Rock Playhouse (11/12-11/15) |
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2026-27 First Bank Broadway Season - Sunday Matinee Plan Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts (8/22-8/22) |
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Flatland Cavalry Skyla Credit Union Amphitheatre (9/26-9/26) |
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2026-27 First Bank Broadway Season - Thursday Night Plan Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts (8/19-8/19) |
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Wednesdays: Live Music with The Olsons at Lucky 32 - GSO | No Cover!! at Greensboro, NC Lucky 32 Southern Kitchen (9/02-9/02) |