BWW Review: Candle Burns More Brightly in RENT After 20 Years
Under the direction of Evan Ensign, the 20th anniversary edition of RENT has become a no-fly zone for self-absorbed rockstar posturing and strutting.
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BWW Review: Family and Romance Tug at an Iowa Housewife in MADISON COUNTY
The Tony Award-winning music and orchestrations of THE BRIDGES OF MADISON are as beautifully rendered in CPCC Theatre's production as they were in the national tour, with better singing if you value clarity.
BWW Review: THE CHRISTIANS Has Much to Say About America Under The Donald
In 2014, THE CHRISTIANS seemed to be about a bunch of tedious church folk wrestling with their faith.
BWW Review: Alfred's BROWN TALE Is Very Chicago and Very Funny
Notwithstanding the lingering leeriness I feel about going to see them, one-person shows can be memorable and truly special.
BWW Review: One-Two Punch of Surprises Powers EAT THE RUNT
Make sure to bring your smartphone to the Charlotte Art League when you see EAT THE RUNT.
BWW Review: Triumphant AIDA Cast Slogs Through Tedious Sir Elton Score
Linda Woolverton does a masterful job of modernizing - and feminizing - Verdi's libretto for A DA, but despite an excellent Theatre Charlotte cast, slogging through Sir Elton's parade of power ballads grows tedious.
BWW Review: Fire, Fury, and Painful Memories Drive Wilson's JITNEY
BNS Productions has assembled a strong, deep, and engaging cast for August Wilson's JITNEY, and director Corlis Hayes keeps it chugging at a rush-hour pace.
BWW Review: Playwright Imposter Goes Off-Script in THE SUBMISSION
Three Bone Theatre's fast-paced production of THE SUBMISSION brings out all of playwright Jeff Talbott's backstage comedy and drama - and helps gloss over its clumsy, implausible ending.
BWW Review: ShakesCar Puts Women Behind THE IRON MASK
Shakespeare Carolina takes a bold step in their adaptation of Dumas's swashbuckling MAN IN THE IRON MASK, casting two women as the twin brothers who claim the title of Louis XIV.
BWW Review: More Empathy for a Barbaric Monarch in the Touring KING AND I
Leaning toward spectacle and theatricality, Bartlett Sher's production of THE KING AND I took me by surprise with its emotional power.
BWW Review: FUN HOME Strikes a New Balance on Tour
Knight Theater and Abby Corrigan's darker, more vulnerable portrayal of Middle Allison make the big differences in the current touring version of FUN HOME.
BWW Review: CHORUS LINE at CPCC Remains as Fresh as Ever – in Spots
While A CHORUS LINE shows signs of age at CPCC Summer Theatre, when it gets intensely personal, it still delivers a dramatic jolt.
BWW Review: SQUAWKS Hasn't Sharpened Its Claws
CHARLOTTE SQUAWKS 13: CHARLOTTE, WE HAVE A PROBLEM does a better job targeting statewide and national scoundrels than delivering on its promise to face local issues, but there are genuine nuggets among the worthless trinkets - and an absolutely sensational new cast member.
BWW Review: WAITING FOR GODOT Tops Spoleto's Edgy Theatre Lineup
Spoleto Festival USA has gone from last year's 40th anniversary geniality to its customary edginess, and Druid Theatre's WAITING FOR GODOT wonderfully keynotes that shift at Dock Street Theatre.
BWW Review: Physical Comedy Reigns Supreme in THE ACTRESS
Physical comedy upstages Chekhovian pathos in Peter Quilter's THE ACTRESS, now at Spirit Square in a well-acted Three Bone Theatre production.
BWW Review: There's Plenty of Broadway Bravura in Theatre Charlotte's MEMPHIS
Under the direction of Corey Mitchell, Theatre Charlotte delivers one of their best productions in the past 30, with Joe McCourt delivering a Broadway-caliber performance as Huey Calhoun, the heart of MEMPHIS.
BWW Review: Enjoying Is Easier Than Understanding THE PRIDE
Shame and repression hinder homoerotic love in 1958, but it's easy, nasty love that's the bugbear when we cut to 2008 in Alexi Kaye Campbell's THE PRIDE.
BWW Review: WUTHERING HEIGHTS Dances Madly to the End of Love
With a brilliantly imagined final scene, Charlotte Ballet choreographer Sasha Janes captures the emotions, manias, and passions of WUTHERING HEIGHTS with surprising success.
BWW Review: STUPID F@#%ING BIRD Mashes Chekhov With Giddy Modernism
If you can find STUPID F@#%ING BIRD at Queens University, you'll find that this mash-up of Chekhov's 'The Seagull' is a goofy lark.
BWW Review: Art and Business Clash in MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM
The ugly spectacle of art being turned into money is very much at the heart of MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM, but there's also an upstairs-downstairs conflict brewing.
BWW Review: A New RAISIN IN THE SUN Is Set to Explode
Theatre Charlotte's vivid new staging of A RAISIN IN THE SUN reminds us that Lorraine Hansberry's drama was written to show us all the things, good and bad, that can happen to 'a dream deferred.
BWW Review: BOOTYCANDY Sizzles With Satire and Seethes With Inner Turmoil
Robert O'Hara's BOOTYCANDY has a merry old time lampooning trashy black mammas and a grandiloquent Sunday preacher, but the turbulence lurking within his gay anti-hero is indicative of the the playwright's ambivalence toward white people and his inner self-doubts.
BWW Review: The Ghost of (I Hate) Hamlet Returns - With a Vengeance - in WOMEN PLAYING HAMLET
Shamelessly borrowing his concept from Paul Rudnick's 'I Hate Hamlet,' William Missouri Downs's WOMEN PLAYING HAMLET hilariously flips the script, giving all the principal parts and scene-stealing cameos to women.
BWW Review: THE GREAT COMET Outshines HAMILTON in Perry T's Annual Broadway Roundup
Perry T's latest New York Roundup includes six Broadway shows; NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET, HAMILTON, A BRONX TALE, IN TRANSIT, PARAMOUR, and ON YOUR FEET! plus three off-Broadway shows; PRUDENCIA HART, SPAMILTON, and CAGNEY
BWW Review: Strong CP Cast Unleashes Newfound Power of RAGTIME
The current CPCC Theatre production of RAGTIME THE MUSICAL is not only timely, but thanks to one of the best casts ever assembled on the Halton Theater stage, it's also newly powerful.
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Sovereignty Three Bone Theatre (8/21-9/06) |
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2026-27 First Bank Broadway Season - Tuesday Night Plan Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts (8/17-8/17) |
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2026-27 First Bank Broadway Season - Sunday Night Plan Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts (8/22-8/22) |
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show Spooktacular Tour with Barry Bostwick Carolina Theatre (10/17-10/17) |
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Outer Banks Bluegrass Island Music Festival Roanoke Island Festival Park (10/14-10/17) |
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Carolina New Works Play Festival Three Bone Theatre (7/31-8/02) |
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Rumpelstiltskin Flat Rock Playhouse (11/12-11/15) |
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CINDERELLA by The United European Ballet Company The Carolina Theatre of Greensboro (10/07-10/07) |
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Wicked Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts (11/18-12/06) |
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Sister Act Flat Rock Playhouse (10/02-10/25) |