The latest reviews and critic recommendations from Charlotte.
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.
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.
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
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.
Closing with THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY at the Unknown Brewing Company, their most lavish production since they adapted The Princess Bride in 2011, Citizens of the Universe is going out with a big bang.
After gracing Broadway's Studio 54 with his presence in the body of Jim Parsons, God has chosen Duke Energy Theatre at Spirit Square for his newest abode and the body of Queen City Theatre Company's Kristian Wedolowski as his instrument.
Theatre Charlotte's revival of CRIMES OF THE HEART affirms how vividly Beth Henley's deftly differentiated Magrath Sisters stick in a theatergoer's memory.
Now celebrating their 40th anniversary season, the Emerson String Quartet was already a marquee attraction when I first encountered them in live concert during the summer of 2002 at the Aspen Music Festival.
With such a fine set of frontliners behind him, John Rapson may not be a dominant as Jefferson Mays was on Broadway, but the touring show comes off as more balanced, the LOVE and MURDER more equally weighted.
FIRST DATE Broadway Musical is a musical with a book by Austin Winsberg and music and lyrics by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner.
THE WIZARD OF OZ is a must see!
With two Broadway-calibre voices hitting the hits out of the park, BEAUTIFUL THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL is pure gold
'Be A Lion', inspired by the Broadway musical and film, 'The Wiz', opens its third season at The Duke Energy Theater, at Spirit Square in Charlotte, NC
This weekend I visited a little gem filled with history, tucked away within a short drive from Charlotte, the Meroney Theater in Salisbury, NC.
REALISH HOUSEWIVES OF CHARLOTTE takes aim at Bravo reality TV, with a disgraced local mayor as a sidedish
BOOK OF MORMON, the musical that exorcised Charlotte's Angels in America stigma, returns more energetically than ever
We all know of Dorothy, Toto, and the Wizard of Oz.
Director and Choreographer, Marcia Milgrom Dodge, brings a realism to RAGTIME that I have never seen before in musicals.
TWO ROOMS is more topically urgent than Lee Blessing's more familiar works, dealing with terrorism and hostage situations that still plague us 25 years after it was written, questioning the roles that our government and our press corps should play when terrorists use their captives as political pawn
Soulful Singer Chante Moore was better than 'Alright'.
Who's really good and bad in Joshua Harmon's BAD JEWS is a far more complex issue than which of the warring Feygenbaum grandchildren thinks they are
BREAKIN' CONVENTION is not just a show or a festival, it's an experience.
THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL is a rather bland tale that challenges a director to perk up the drama, which threatens to vanish once we must pull away from the close-ups on its elderly protagonist, Carrie Watts, that TV and movies so readily provide.
Theatre Charlotte's revival of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES allows us to catch up with its true meaning as director Dennis Delamar sets his star, Steve Bryan, free to add uproarious blandishments of shtick and impersonation.
Grammy Award-Winning Singer, Lisa Fischer, showcases her musical range at the McGlohon Theatre at Spirit Square.
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Rumpelstiltskin Flat Rock Playhouse (11/12-11/15) |
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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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Renée Fleming’s Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene Hanes Auditorium, Salem Academy and Collete (9/19-9/19) |
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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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I'm Gonna Marry You Tobey Maguire Warehouse Studio Theatre (9/25-10/11) |
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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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The Rocky Horror Picture Show Spooktacular Tour with Barry Bostwick Carolina Theatre (10/17-10/17) |
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2026-27 First Bank Broadway Season - Saturday Matinee Plan Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts (8/21-8/21) |
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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 - Thursday Night Plan Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts (8/19-8/19) |
