Charlotte News

Next month, 54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond. A recipient of the 2022 Tony Awards Honor for Excellence in the Theatre, 54 Below celebrates Broadway musicals and writers of the past and present, promoting an ongoing engagement with their work.

Kumu Kahua Theatre, in collaboration with Bamboo Ridge Press have announced the April prompt for their monthly playwriting contest, Go Try PlayWrite.

Hangout Music Festival has announced the updated soundtrack and schedule to your quintessential beach vacation on the majestic white sand beaches of Gulf Shores, Alabama, May 19-21.

Produced by Baiman, mixed by Tucker Martine (Neko Case, The Decemberists, First Aid Kit) and recorded at The Tractor Shed outside of Nashville, the album offers an assessment of the country’s current state, telling stories of American capitalism as well as the individual and communal devastation it manifests.

In celebration of the forthcoming effort, MacPherson has released “Stretch,” a cathartic and introspective new single about finding love, that will appear on the record. Taking flight on shimmering keys with a hypnotic hook, the song showcases a more upbeat side of the artist’s sound. Plus, check out tour dates!

The Broadway company of Chicago will welcome Kimberly Marable in the role of “Velma Kelly,” Liam Fennecken in the role of “Amos Hart” and welcomes back Charity Angél Dawson as “Matron Mama Morton” beginning Monday, April 10, 2023.

Genesis Owusu continues to be one of Australia’s most in-demand exports. He releases a new remix by acclaimed Grammy-nominated musician and producer ZHU of Owusu’s hit 2022 single, “Get Inspired,” which features a menacing and poetic punk hybridity and an infectious falsetto breakdown.

Children's Theatre of Charlotte has 12 productions lined up for its 76th season including seven musicals, two world premieres, and two presented pieces.

Journey to UCSB’s Halten Theater this April to experience the spring dance concert, “VITALITY” debuting April 13 – 15, 2023.

The adventurous Beo String Quartet, noted for its sterling sound and experimental as well as classical performances, will travel to Tabernash, Colorado, where the Grand Concert series will present the ensemble in their 20th anniversary season.

Ahead of the ceremony this Sunday (2 April), the Olivier Awards 2023 with Mastercard has announced its line-up of presenters for the event taking place at the Royal Albert Hall, hosted by Hannah Waddingham.

Serge et Bernard, acteurs de second plan, la soixantaine, habitués aux troisièmes rôles, sont amis depuis longtemps . Ils ont débuté ensemble il y a 40 ans, mais n’en restent pas moins rivaux.

Tickets are now available for Alice in Wonderland, which runs May 6 & 7  at Traveling Players Studio in Tysons Corner Center.  Performed by Traveling Players students in grades 5-7, the play is a new imagining of Carroll's classic daydream, a perfect spring outing for the whole family!

Ebony Repertory Theatre will present the Tony Award-winning musical AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ as its 15th Anniversary Season Opening Production. 

Jason Mraz has released “You Might Like It,” the second track to be revealed from Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride. Earlier this month, Jason performed “I Feel Like Dancing,” the first single from Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride on “Live with Kelly and Ryan” for their post-Oscar show. Plus, check out Jason Mraz tour dates!

Influenced by craftsmen like Kris Kristofferson, John Prine, Ryan Bingham, Willie Nelson, Chris Knight, and more, his two already released LPs, Seneca and How the Mighty Fall, showcase an artist born at the cross section of blue-collar sensibilities, cinematic country-folk soundscapes, and sharp-minded songwriting.

See photos of Olivia Holt meeting the press ahead of her Broadway debut in Chicago!

It was in Fall 1995 that I first was introduced to the gospel singing Sanders Family of “up near Siler City, North Carolina,” in a production of Smoke on the Mountain at Nashville's venerable Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre. In 2023, the family returns again, as if by magic or perhaps accompanied by flights of angels, in a warmly nostalgic, sweetly sentimental and altogether lovely production from Studio Tenn -- playing through April 2 -- at the historic sanctuary of the First United Methodist Church in downtown Franklin, which stands in quite nicely for the First Baptist Church of Mount Pleasant, North Carolina, on a Saturday night in 1938.

The tour of James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods officially opened at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC earlier this year. Read the reviews for the tour of Into The Woods here!

As celebrations continue for the 400th Anniversary of the First Folio across 2023, Shakespeare’s Globe will return to Westminster Abbey for the hugely popular Shakespeare in the Abbey for six special performances beginning this evening and running until Friday 31 March.