Charlotte News

Morehouse College Glee Club will return to Charlotte to  share the stage with the Charlotte Symphony on Friday, March 4, 2022, at 7:30 p.m. at the Belk  Theater.

Today, iconic British duo Tears For Fears released their highly anticipated first studio album in seventeen years, THE TIPPING POINT, via Concord Records. According to Pitchfork, Vulture, Stereogum and many more it’s one of 2022’s most anticipated albums. Check out the new list of tour dates now!

With an authentic message inspired by Kylie’s personal story, the song struck a chord out of the gate with free spirits in her fanbase. First shared on social media, it has earned 1.6 million likes on her TikTok profile alone, while inspiring more than 10 thousand users to share their own stories using “Independent With You” before its release.

Loft Ensemble in North Hollywood is set to present the fourth production of its ninth anniversary season, Branwell (and the other Brontës): An Autobiography Edited by Charlotte Brontë by Stephen Kaplan.

Syncopated Ladies, founded by Chloe' Arnold, is the most viewed female tap dance band in history. They were recognized by Beyonce, whose support catapulted them on a global platform.

French-Algerian acoustic guitar virtuoso, vocalist and composer Pierre Bensusan will once again tour North America. In early 2020, Bensusan was in the USA, ready to play both Charlotte and Asheville, but unfortunately a fledlgling pandemic cut his North American tour shot.

The Happy Fits announce the second leg of their nationwide U.S. tour -- The What Could Be Better Tour 2022 -- aptly named after their second album. The first leg of the Happy Fits 2021 tour sold out shows at Bowery Ballroom (NYC), Teragram Ballroom (LA), totaling her 20+ sold out shows on their North American headline tour.

 Fault Line Theatre will continue the 2022 Season of Irons in the  Fire, the organization’s reading series of new plays in development, with God Save the Queer by Zackary Grady, directed by Portia Krieger and featuring Michael Urie (George), Mallory Portnoy (Charlotte), Keshav Moodliar (Tariq), Seth Clayton (Louis), and Mary McCann (Kate).

A story spanning ten years, If. Destroyed. Still. True. shines a stark light on life between the cracks, and asks what happens when the place where you were born can no longer be called home. Identity, class and cultures clash as life pulls childhood best mates apart, laying bare what we stand to lose when we cannot truly communicate to reveal the lengths to which we must go to find peace...

Pasadena Playhouse presents the West Coast premiere of Ann – written by and starring Holland Taylor and directed by Benjamin Endsley Klein from March 22 through April 24; the press opening is Saturday, March 26. 

Following 2021’s triumphant, sold-out spectacular, Kaleidoscope Festival will return on Saturday, 23 July and today Alexandra Palace announces a stellar line-up that promises more crowd-pleasing live music, DJs and comedy at London’s highest festival.

As funny as it may sound, Anaïs Mitchell has spent the past 15 years in some kind of hell. Ok, not actual hell, but the multi-faceted world of Hadestown, a musical project she began in Vermont in 2006 that has grown into a Tony-and Grammy-award-winning Broadway phenomenon with touring editions now delighting audiences as far away as South Korea.

Single tickets are now on-sale for all of the Canadian Opera Company's 2022 in-person programming. 

TEDxBroadway organizers announced the initial list of speakers for TEDxBroadway TEN and a new date for the hybrid event – at New World Stages and exclusively livestreaming on Stellar. On Tuesday, May 17, at 1pm Eastern a global community of changemakers will all gather to consider the central mission question, “What’s the BEST Broadway can be?”

New single “spirit boy” features Shane McLean, a musician specializing in Taonga Pūoro (the traditional instrumentation and music culture of the Māori people) and contributes spoken word. The album features songs like “the angel of 8th ave.,” “unison,” and “the man himself.' Plus, check out upcoming tour dates!

Last night, The Broadway League welcomed New York City public high school students from five boroughs to have the ultimate insider theatre experience at Moulin Rouge! The Musical at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, as part of the League's 10th Annual High School Broadway Shadowing Program.

Grammy and Academy Award-winning singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist H.E.R. announced a new leg of her wildly successful 2021 BACK OF MY MIND tour. She will also add acting to her resume when she joins the all-star cast of “The Color Purple” musical film adaptation as ‘Squeak.’ Check out the full list of tour dates now!

Casting has been announced for a new adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's classic novel Jane Eyre at Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre this spring in a co-production with the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme.

ArtsEmerson presents the world premiere of Sleeping Weazel's Everyday Life and Other Odds and Ends at the Emerson Paramount Center Jackie Liebergott Black Box from March 12 – 27, 2022. Boston's acclaimed experimental theatre troupe, Sleeping Weazel, which this year marks its 10th anniversary, is strongly guided by social justice ideals.

The acclaimed online series Cabaret on the Couch kicks off its 2022 programming with an evening of all-new music on Friday, February 25th at 8pm.