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Review: Circle Mirror Transformation at NC Stage

THEATRE

David Hopes | 04/03/2012

A play about preparing for a play must have seemed a good idea when playwright Annie Baker sat down at the keyboard — it seems like a good idea now, when I look at the words — but something didn’t gel. I left the theater grateful to skilled actors for making a limp script stand as long and as firmly as it did.

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Review of Tartuffe at UNCA

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Kim Ruehl | 03/28/2012

Onstage now at UNCA’s Carol Belk Theater, the all-student production of Tartuffe, or The Imposter, packs in everything a good play must: sex, betrayal, religion, humility, delusion, and demise.

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Review: Love Child

Kim Ruehl | 02/27/2012

Plays about life in the theater can feel a little cliché — the easy image of the play-within-the-play dating back to Shakespeare, and beyond. For an audience of non-actors, such storylines can be a little too self-absorbed to be relatable. Fortunately that’s not the case with Love Child, now at N.C. Stage.

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Plumber butt, penis jokes and the return of the 'stache

Alli Marshall | 02/04/2012

The Feral Chihuahuas fortel the end of the world in "The Chihuacolypse," running two weekend at BeBe Theatre.

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Review of Fight Girl Battle World

John Crutchfield | 01/25/2012

The fast-paced if somewhat chaotic action features bizarre aliens, cool ray guns, girls in tight outfits, a loquacious robot, spaceships and fire-fights, a Chinese dragon ride across a desert planet, an intergalactic zookeeper, copious pseudo kung-fu and/or quasi ninja shenanigans, puppetry so bad it’s good, and an implement of “enhanced interrogation” I’ll call a tickle drill.

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Review of Solstice

David Hopes | 01/17/2012

Solstice is funny. It is tragic without somberness, moving without sentimentality. It’s squalid, but without a trace of self-pity. ... It allows its characters to be fatally screwed up and sublime at once, and the list of playwrights who can do that is short indeed.

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"The First Time I Ever..." by Asheville Playback Theatre

Halima Flynt | 01/10/2012

The Asheville Playback Theatre held a couple performances at N.C. Stage over the weekend. On Saturday, Jan. 7, the crew of six helped to showcase personal stories presented by volunteers from the audience with the overall theme "The First Time I Ever." Using improvisation and comedy, the troupe reenacted comical and heartfelt first times.

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Pre-New Year's revelry

Alli Marshall | 12/19/2011

"Get Some Fairie Tale" plays one night only at NC Stage on Dec. 30.

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Review of A Christmas Carol

John Crutchfield | 12/18/2011

Charles Dickens was never one to shy away from good old-fashioned sentimentality, but his A Christmas Carol is downright shellacked with it. Stage versions of the story typically either give it one more half-hearted buff, or try somewhat desperately to scrape away the goo with a little irony. Now, however, we may rightfully speak of a third option: Cram the whole damn thing into The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and populate it with Children of the Corn. Oh, and throw in a little cross-dressing for good measure.

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Review of The 12 Dates of Christmas

Kim Ruehl | 12/06/2011

We live in a world of two Christmases. One is a jingly, happy, merry, glass-clinking, snow-cavorting good time. The other is marred by a harsher reality.

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RiverLink hosts a free live theater performance

Jake Frankel | 03/27/2012

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NC Stage & League of Women Voters offer Frances Perkins, a Chautauqua Show

Jake Frankel | 02/29/2012

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Just like Queen Elizabeth II, the Flat Rock Playhouse starts 60th year

Bill Rhodes | 02/09/2012

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A critique of John Crutchfield's "Moody Solstice"

Jeff Fobes | 01/29/2012

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Flat Rock Playhouse celebrates 60 years in WNC

Caitlin Byrd | 01/20/2012

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Carolina Day's theatre class participated in annual conference, wins awards

Margaret Williams | 11/29/2011

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Twelve Shakespeare plays in two days — can you survive a BARD-A-THON!?

Jeff Fobes | 09/27/2011

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See "The Voice of John Muir" Oct. 15 in Waynesville

Jake Frankel | 09/22/2011

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Montford Park Players seek help winterizing amphitheatre this Saturday

Jeff Fobes | 09/19/2011

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