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Graham Smith (1955-2020): Charlotte Theatre Loses a Giant
When actor Graham Smith died unexpectedly of a heart attack on November 1, the Charlotte theatre community lost one of…
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CPCC Theatre Returns To a Planet of the Masks With Double Bill
If you sign up for CPCC Theatre’s webcast of John Cariani’s Almost, Maine, you may wind up noticing that it…
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CPCC Theatre Investigates a Murder Online with ‘A Virtual Whodunnit’
As the 2020-21 theatre season begins, no local production companies have quite opened their doors for business, but Theatre Charlotte…
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CPCC’s ‘Chess’ Gets Checkmated in ABBA Showdown
Who wins the world championship match between Frederick Trumper and Anatoly Sergievsky in Tim Rice’s Chess, with music by the…
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‘The Odd Couple’ Showcases More Than a Pair
With the benefit of hindsight, we can see more clearly that Neil Simon and his esteemed stablemates — Woody Allen,…
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Janeta Jackson Saddles Up to ‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill’
Forget the famous nickname for a second. Like only a handful of jazz artists — instrumentalists Miles Davis and John…
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‘The Norwegians’ Quench a Thirst for Blood
If you head north on I-77 to the Warehouse PAC this month, bundle up, because playwright C. Denby Swanson will…
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‘Come From Away’ Brings it all Together
Traveling to Europe by air, you may have seen the animated maps that flash onto the seatback screens facing you,…
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‘Clara’s Trip’ Relieves the Nutcracker Blues at Booth
Although Caroline Calouche’s Clara’s Trip has become a Yuletide fixture at Booth Playhouse since 2012, often playing while Charlotte Ballet’s…
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Actor’s Theatre Celebrates Christmas in the Trailer Park
To say that Betsy Kelso and David Nehls’ Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical is a sequel — or a…
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Brand New Sheriff’s ‘Be a Lion’ Keeps Roaring and Romancing
Without much fanfare or marketing knowhow, Rory Sheriff and his Be A Lion arrived on the local scene in 2014.…
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‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ Adheres to a Controlled Chaos
While a clean, blooper-less run is often the mark of a good play, but such is not the case for…
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‘Once on This Island’ Searches for a Silver Lining
Early in the colorful Tony Award-winning revival of Once on This Island, we learn what differentiates the upper-class grand hommes…
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‘Protective Custody’ Is a Rightfully Uncomfortable Experience
For those of us who didn’t endure or survive it, talking about the Holocaust can be awkward, uncomfortable and disturbing.…
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‘GUF’ Goes To a Dark Place
It’s a chilly Friday night, the day after Halloween, and moments before making an informal curtain speech, Matt Cosper gives…
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CPCC’s ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ Sells a Nightmare
What seemed so axiomatic when Little Shop of Horrors opened Off-Broadway in 1982 — that it was a little musical…
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