Center Stage
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‘Vampire Lesbians of Sodom’ Brings Debauchery to VisArt
For devout upstanding citizens who had decided way back in the hippie ‘60s that Greenwich Village was an abominable den…
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Charlotte’s Off-Broadway Revisits the Trump Era in ‘Thanksgiving: 2016’
Anyone who reads advice columns or cruises social media at this time of year will have an accurate inkling of…
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‘The Lehman Trilogy’ Is a Paragon in Pacing and Performance
Even when histories are epic in length, like Gibbons’ Decline and Fall or Churchill’s Second World War, what we read…
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Theatre Charlotte’s ‘Baskerville’ Gives Sherlock a Comedic Spin
In a year when ginormous pink Barbie dolls and balloons are making inroads on normally ghoulish local lawns, there are…
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The Crucifixion of ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ on Tour
What is exciting and shocking about Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar is that it is, a few…
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Charlotte Ballet’s Alejandro Cerrudo Boldly Breaks Boundaries
With a lineup that has repeatedly included Fall Works, Spring Works, Innovative Works, and Nutcracker over recent seasons, it isn’t…
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‘MJ: The Musical’ Is as Close as We Can Get to the King of Pop
Whether it was his skin, his sunglasses, his surgeries, or his sleepovers, Michael Jackson always gave fans — and detractors…
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‘Yankee Tavern’ Still Implodes With 9/11 Speculation in Davidson
Over the years, Steven Dietz has favored Charlotte with plenty of spookiness and suspense. We’ve seen his most acclaimed works…
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Theatre Charlotte’s ‘The Wizard of Oz’ Lands on Queens Road
With her rustic picnic basket, her toy dog Toto, her beribboned pigtails and her iconic gingham dress, the 1939 movie…
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Free Reign Theatre’s ‘A Soldier’s Play’ Recalls the Brink of a New Era
The effects of segregation, Jim Crow, and the Ku Klux Klan choke the atmosphere surrounding Fort Neal, a fictitious 1944…
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‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’ Makes the Speech. Does It Slam the Door?
If you make a brief study of Henrik Ibsen’s original A Doll’s House script — going beyond the Wikipedia write-up…
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Three Bone Theatre’s ‘The Chinese Lady’ Tells a Tragic but Unknown American Story
Somewhere in China, either forgotten in the innards of a few cellphones and computer hard drives or hanging up proudly…
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Walls and Borders Lurk Invisibly in ‘how to make an American Son’
Beyond the first two capital letters ever used by playwright christopher oscar peña in any of his titles, peña injects…
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Opera Carolina Takes off on an International Flight
Look up, look around, and look quick. There’s a new international music festival here in Charlotte, and it’s already in…
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Theatre Charlotte’s ‘Detroit ’67’ Spins Motown into History
Baked into many great American plays is the notion that dreaming big, striving for the golden apple of success, is…
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QC Concerts Aims High with ‘Angels in America’
The Queen City has played host to historic productions of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America before, most famously the Charlotte…
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