Review: SIBELIUS SYMPHONY NO. 5 at Charlotte Symphony
A worthy candidate for CSO's vacant musical directorship, Vinay Parameswaran brings a winsome personality and an eclectic modern program to the Knight Theater podium for his Charlotte debut.
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Review: A SOLDIER'S PLAY at Knight Theater
A Soldier's Play pinpoints various forms of racism found within the ranks of the military.
Review: TINA - THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL Bedazzles The Belk Theater
The bio-musical 'Tina (The Tina Turner Musical) is a great snapshot of the highs and lows of Tina Turner.
Review: JAGGED LITTLE PILL at Belk Theater
Overamped at Belk Theater, with an underwhelming set of grievances in Diablo Cody's adaptation of Alanis Morissette's megahit 1995 album, JAGGED LITTLE PILL generates more fire and heat than substance until it arrives at its #MeToo moment - and finds its heart.
Review: HADESTOWN at Blumenthal Performing Arts
In a uniquely simpatico collaboration, composer-lyricist Anäis Mitchell and developer-director Rachel Chavkin have retold the Orpheus-Eurydice myth in a musical form that is slick and glitzy, with primal and profound truths lurking amid the razzle-dazzle.
Review: FALL WORKS at Charlotte Ballet
Knight Theater should have been abuzz last Friday night.
Review: URBAN BUSH WOMEN at Blumenthal Performing Arts Center's Booth Playhouse
The Blumenthal Performing Arts Center is hosting its first annual Charlotte International Arts Festival.
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.
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.
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Masterworks: Romantic Masters P.E. Monroe Auditorium (5/22-5/22) |
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BKLYN The Musical Theatre Charlotte (5/14-5/30) |
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Six Degrees of Separation Theatre Charlotte (4/09-4/18) |
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Rumpelstiltskin Flat Rock Playhouse (11/12-11/15) |
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Foothills Pops: Holiday Spectacular J.E. Broyhill Civic Center (12/04-12/04) |
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Frankenstein Theatre Charlotte (10/30-11/15) |
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The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales Creative Greensboro (10/22-10/25) |
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Her Name Was Frankie: A Frankie Silver Story Parkway Playhouse (10/02-10/11) |
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Foothills Pops: The Texas Tenors J.E. Broyhill Civic Center (4/17-4/17) |
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show Spooktacular Tour with Barry Bostwick Carolina Theatre (10/17-10/17) |
