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Feature: The Broadway-Style Musical, BE A LION RETURNS


by Vickie Evans - December 07, 2022

The Evolution Of 'Be A Lion' an adaptation of 'The Wizard Of Oz' from its humble start at Duke Energy Theater to the illustrious stage of the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center's Booth Playhouse. Witness the transformation and upgrades...beautiful backdrops, colorful costumes, toe-tapping choreograph...

BWW Review: BNS Productions Encore Presentation: MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM at Duke Energy Theater


by Vickie Evans - September 10, 2021

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is one of ten of August Wilson's productions about the African American experience. Ma Rainey depicts the life of the famous blues singer, Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey, and Black Bottom is one of the songs she made famous. BNS Productions, based in Charlotte, NC, did an excellent ...

BWW Review: Warehouse PAC's SWEAT Deploys Stellar Cast on Stellar Script


by Perry Tannenbaum - August 02, 2021

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...

Past Shows

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
8/11 - 8/21/2021

The Birth
12/18 - 12/21/2019


Charlotte's very own original Christmas experience, The Birth, enters its 14th season this December. The Birth once more hopes to prove itself the best kept ...

Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
8/8 - 8/24/2013


A modern exploration of decadent sexuality, morals and manipulations played out as the ultimate game of lust and revenge. A web filled with deceit, lies ...

Speak Up Youth Poetry Slam
Speak Up Youth Poetry Slam
11/20 - 6/17/2012


Blumenthal Performing Arts and SlamCharlotte are proud to bring back Speak Up Youth Poetry Slam for its third year! Dedicated to bringing voices of the ...

Rhyme Deferred
Rhyme Deferred
6/1 - 6/16/2012


With the last show of the season, we take a look at the reason for rhyme with the hip hop influenced, Rhyme Deferred by Kamilah ...

Miles & Coltrane
Miles & Coltrane
2/29 - 3/3/2012


From Off-Broadway to Edinburgh, audiences and critics alike have raved about Miles & Coltrane: Blue(.). This work tells the story of two men, Miles Davis ...

The Amen Corner
The Amen Corner
1/13 - 1/28/2012


Written in 1961, by the incomparable James Baldwin, this play deals with a self-anointed Harlem store front preacher, Margaret Alexander, who is the leader of ...

The Birth
The Birth
12/12 - 12/19/2011


Twice-nominated Theater Event of the Year by Creative Loafing, Starving Artist Productions' flagship offering The Birth continues its 6-year run this December at the Duke ...

Time Stands Still
Time Stands Still
11/17 - 12/3/2011


Don’t miss the Mid-Atlantic regional premiere of Donald Margulies’ Time Stands Still. This critically acclaimed drama from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Dinner with Friends ...

For the Love of Harlem
For the Love of Harlem
10/28 - 11/12/2011


The musical, FOR THE LOVE OF HARLEM, written & scored by Jermaine Nakia Lee, is a musical sensation profiling the lives of some of the ...

Videos


Pigs is Pigs in Charlotte Pigs is Pigs
Children's Theatre of Charlotte (5/29 - 6/9)
Mamma Mia! in Charlotte Mamma Mia!
Blumenthal Performing Arts Center: Belk Theater (6/18 - 6/23)
Home for the Holidays in Charlotte Home for the Holidays
Mountain Theatre Company (12/6 - 12/21)
Mindgame in Charlotte Mindgame
Ensemble Stage (7/19 - 7/28)
Mrs. Doubtfire in Charlotte Mrs. Doubtfire
Blumenthal Performing Arts Center: Belk Theater (4/30 - 5/5)
Distant Music in Charlotte Distant Music
Ensemble Stage (8/16 - 8/25)
The Burnt Part Boys in Charlotte The Burnt Part Boys
Mountain Theatre Company (10/11 - 10/26)
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