CHARLOTTE THEATER REVIEWS

FIRST DATE Broadway Musical is a musical with a book by Austin Winsberg and music and lyrics by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner. Based around the concept of a blind date, these first daters bring tons of baggage, which gets kicked around metaphorically onstage with truly funny and witty words and ...

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. The original home to vaudeville and now home to The Piedmont Players. This group put on a sublimely wonderful production of CABARET. The cast was lead by E...

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. WICKED centers around the untold story of the witches of OZ, the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda, The Good Witch....

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'...she was INCREDIBLE!...

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. In the current CPCC Theatre production at Pease Auditoriu...

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....

Tony Mullins captured the sentiment of Wilson's message beautifully....

Motown: The Musical - a snapshot of one of the most successful musical era driven by one man with big dreams: Berry Gordy...

With authentic Midwest flavoring, Amy and David Sedaris, lightly satirize ascetic religious communities like the Amish and the Amanas. Then as their heroine breaks free and explores the outside world, we watch how zany and insular the people are on our side of the fence, viewed through the lens of L...

Fighting to keep his job - and keep up his alimony - Thomas enters the arena lacking Isobel's looks and Tony's clout. To make matters worse, his two rivals have sabotaged his preparation for the big meeting with the corporate downsizer. Are you doubting Thomas has a chance?...

Don't miss your chance to see ANNIE in Charlotte....

Dixie's Tupperware Party is a party delivered with a stand-up comedy routine, delivered by its colorful (red-headed), "chatty", life-of-the-party hostess, Dixie Longate...

'Unforgettable', 'Incredible', 'Sophisticated Lady'...all words that appropriately describe the 'incomparable' Natalie Cole, who appeared at the Belk Theater this past Thursday, June 25. The big band sound filled the entire room with echoes of symphonic music. Impressively dressed in a white 'prince...

Celebrating their 50th Anniversary, Davidson Community Players open their Summer season with the Tony Award-Winning Musical, Chicago....

Robert Aguirre-Sacasa's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel drops the original's epigrammatic wit, lovingly shaking up the story, adding violence and sex, and landing Dorian in modern-day Hollywood....