Charlotte News

Relive the timeless love story of Baby and Johnny with Dirty Dancing in Concert, celebrating the film’s 35th anniversary on a full-size cinema screen with a band and singers live on stage as it tours North America in the Fall of 2022.

Charlotte d’Amboise (Chicago; A Chorus Line) and Bianca Marroquín (Chicago; Fosse/Verdon) will host the 2022 Chita Rivera Awards, it was announced today.

Theatre on Film and Tape Archive's 2019 interview with Angela Lansbury will stream next month! The Creative Process: Interview with Angela Lansbury will be streamed free of charge July 11 at 5:30 PM ET.

MOSSO, the Musicians of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra, will celebrate the music of legendary composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim on Thursday, June 23, at 7:30 PM in Springfield Symphony Hall. The Sondheim Celebration, conducted by Tim Stella, will feature Broadway stars Hugh Panaro and Lisa Vroman.

GRAMMY Award-winning and Oscar-nominated Blige will perform in 23 cities with special guests, GRAMMY Award-winning artist Ella Mai and platinum-selling rising star Queen Naija beginning on Saturday, September 17, in Greensboro, NC, and ending on Saturday, October 29 in Atlantic City, NJ. The tour also stops in Los Angeles, New York, and Atlanta.

Green Light Group Productions has announced that Helen Hayes Award Winner Wayne Bennett will join the cast of the July 2022 Off-Broadway premiere of the Audrey Hepburn biomusical Audrey: The New Musical, directed and choreographed by Kelli-Ann Paterwic.

This summer, audiences can expect a show that will be anything but a drag when Bill Hanney's award-winning North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) presents an all-new production of Rodgers + Hammerstein's CINDERELLA that will feature 'RuPaul's Drag Race' superstar Jujubee as 'Madame.' 

The 14/48 Projects return to live audiences this summer by combining two of their best beloved events: 14/48: Speakeasy (their casino-themed fundraiser) and Theater Anonymous (where nobody knows the cast… not even the cast!). The Cornish Playhouse's open-air courtyard will transform into the iconic Casablanca hub, Rick's Cafe, in celebration of its 80th Anniversary.

Americana singer-songwriter Charlotte Morris recently released her new single 'Good Kind of Hurt.'

Atlantic Theater Company has announced the world premiere production of The Bedwetter has been extended to Sunday, July 10 - along with a couple of cast changes.

All existing tickets will be transferable to the new dates and refunds will be issued if requested, with exception of The Greek Berkeley. View the full schedule here!

Full casting and creative team have been announced for WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND – the first major UK revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman’s 1996 rock musical since 2010 – which will play at The Watermill from Friday 22 July until Saturday 10 September.

For its 2022 gala, Irish Repertory Theatre presented A Celebration of the Musicals of Harold Prince, at The Town Hall on Monday June 13, 2022, at 7pm. Check out photos from the concert here!

For its 2022 gala, Irish Repertory Theatre presented A Celebration of the Musicals of Harold Prince,  at The Town Hall on Monday June 13, 2022, at 7pm.

In 1922, near the banks of the Raritan River, a small city priest and a choir singer were slaughtered in the most infamous unsolved double homicide of the 20th century. Incompetent cops, political operatives, and the poorest and most powerful families in New Jersey were all swallowed in the circus that followed.

The Pear Theatre has announced its 21st season lineup featuring uplifting, celebratory stories and programming centered around diversity in community, and co-productions that foster strong, enduring communal alliances.

Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for theatre, has announced the participants in the seventh round of its Rising Leaders of Color (RLC) Program.

London's biggest nightclub unveils another irresistible run of events covering a broad spectrum of sounds over summer. Studio 338 will host cutting edge in-house parties like HOME with Raresh, Sepp, Cap, Lamache, a grand Space Mini Summer Festival with Kings of Tomorrow live (feat. Julie McKnight), James Zabiela, a special Release Summer Mini Festival  with Tania Vulcano, Steve Lawler and more with the likes of Toolroom, Hospitality Records, Garage Solstice, a Sankeys Bank Holiday Festival and plenty of others. 

Will Geer’s Theatricum presents the world premiere of the “all new” revival of Oscar-winning playwright Ernest Thompson’s The West Side Waltz beginning June 25, 2022. Mary Jo DuPrey directs the cast of Ellen Geer, Melora Marshall, Willow Geer, Miguel Pérez and Charles Lin. I was most fortunate to have the playwright make some time to answer my queries.

The Latinx House, the Sundance Institute’s Women at Sundance program, Netflix, and Shondaland announced three Latina directors who will participate in the inaugural Adelante Directors Fellowship, a groundbreaking program that supports up-and-coming directors’ professional development, creating a pipeline to uplift independent filmmakers.