The latest reviews and critic recommendations from Charlotte.
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.
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.
Knight Theater should have been abuzz last Friday night.
The Blumenthal Performing Arts Center is hosting its first annual Charlotte International Arts Festival.
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.
Toni Stone hit a homerun for me.
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.
'Put On Your Purple And Black.
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
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.
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.
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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
'When You Talk About Love'.
Syncopated Ladies, founded by Chloe' Arnold, is the most viewed female tap dance band in history.
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.
Stewart Goodyear was scintillating in his Charlotte Symphony debut, but the Stravinsky-Weill lineup that followed wasn't an anticlimax.
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.
BNS Productions present an adaptation of the Langston Hughes classic, 'Black Nativity', directed by Jermaine Nakia Lee
A Conversation With Stacey Abrams was phenomenal, fun, and frank.
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is one of ten of August Wilson's productions about the African American experience.
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
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.
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.
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Rumpelstiltskin Flat Rock Playhouse (11/12-11/15) |
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The Odd Couple Flat Rock Playhouse (8/28-9/19) |
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Flatland Cavalry Skyla Credit Union Amphitheatre (9/26-9/26) |
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Renée Fleming’s Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene Hanes Auditorium, Salem Academy and Collete (9/19-9/19) |
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Maytag Virgin by Audrey Cefaly Carolina Actors Studio Theatre (10/16-10/31) |
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Her Name Was Frankie: A Frankie Silver Story Parkway Playhouse (10/02-10/11) |
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A Flat Rock Playhouse Christmas Show Flat Rock Playhouse (11/27-12/20) |
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Wicked Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts (11/18-12/06) |
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2026-27 First Bank Broadway Season - Friday Night Plan Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts (8/20-8/20) |
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Wicked Peace Center (4/21-5/09) |
