Local Performing Arts - Articles, Content and Blogs
Seduction Sideshow Presents: Weapons of Mass Seduction... A Post-Apocalyptic Burlesque Extravaganza
LADIES and GENTLEMEN, let the PROPHECY be foretold that SEDUCTION SIDESHOW will be executing a new SHOW of APOCALYPTIC proportions. This just may be the END of the WORLD as we KNOW it! Read more...
The StereoFidelics CD Release at the Grey Eagle with Hellblinki Sextet and Montana Skies
The StereoFidelics (Asheville-based virtuosic groove-rock duo) CD release show at the Grey Eagle Thursday, May 12 at 8:30 with Hellblinki Sextet and Montana Skies. There will be homemade cookies. Read more...
Success stems not from what you do, but from how you think
The number one reason why people fail in business is not because they lack intelligence or funding. It's because most people have not conceptualized the business of being in business. Read more...
Recapping the MAP {Re}HAPPENING 2011
For the 2nd year in a row the The Black Mountain College Museum and Art Center (BMCM+AC) and The Media Arts Project (The MAP) produced the {Re}HAPPENING, a free-form art event held at the original location of the Black Mountian College, now Camp Rockmont of LEAF fame. Read more...
The 2nd All Go West Music Festival on April 23rd, 2011 - Free - Music, Fashion, BBQ & Local Brew
All Go West Music festival to take on its Second installment, located in the streets west Asheville NC. On April 23rd, 2011, The Festival will uniquely offer an array of musical talent, fashion, BBQ, and local Brew. Festival Remains Free To Patrons. Read more...
Jonathan Scales Fourchestra - Innovative Steel Pan - MoDaddy's October 1st
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Final Shindig on the Green of 2010 on September 4
Bring your instruments, families, friends, lawn chairs and blankets to Pack Square Park in downtown Asheville for the final Shindig on the Green of the 2010 season. Enjoy unique music and dance performances on stage, and informal jam sessions. Come celebrate the treasured cultural heritage of the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Read more...
Early Bird Subscription Deadline is Approaching!
This season includes several plays we've wanted to produce for a very long time, including our season opener, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, a play that has never been professionally produced in Asheville. Read more...
2nd Annual TEDxAsheville Conference Selects Orange Peel for 2010, Announces Speakers, Begins Registration
Online registration for the 2010 TEDxAsheville conference, to be held at the Orange Peel on Sunday, August 29, began on July 19th. This year's speaker lineup includes Last American Man Eustace Conway, and multi-percussionist, composer and educator River Guerguerian. The $25 tickets are available at the conference's website at tedxavl.com. All ticket proceeds will be used to underwrite the costs of producing the conference. Read more...
North Carolina Stage Company Presents the Bard-a-thon: 48-hour Shakespeare Festival Kicks Off September 10th
North Carolina Stage Company presents the 3rd annual Bard-a-thon fundraiser September 10-12, 2010. During thishe 48-hour Shakespeare festival, volunteers can sign up to read Shakespeare for any amount of time they choose and raise money for NC Stage, Asheville's local professional, non-profit theatre. Read more...
2nd Annual Asheville International Children's Film Festival (AICFF) Sets Dates Adds Venues
Creator and Artistic Director Tim T-Bone Arem has set November 1-14 as the time for this years expanding festival. AICFF is the largest children's film festival in the Southeast with offerings of 125 films from 30 countries. The categories to be screened are; features, documentary, animation and shorts. Read more...
Asheville Playback Theatre announces Sweet Sixteenth Season
Playback Theatre - sweet! Tell your story, see it played back. 2010-2011 shows at NC Stage, BeBe, Masonic Temple, and more. Read more...
What the Butler Saw Opens May 12th
North Carolina Stage Company closes its 8th season with the brilliantly subversive 1969 farce What the Butler Saw, running May 12-30 at the theatre's downtown venue. What the Butler Saw was written by Joe Orton, and although it shocked London audiences at its premiere, it's now considered a classic of 20th century comedy. Read more...
North Carolina Stage Company Extends Its Comedy True West For Five Extra Performances
North Carolina Stage Company has added five performances to the run of True West, due to strong advance sales. The comedy opens February 17th, and now runs for four weeks, through Saturday March 13. Read more...
Two Weeks to Get It Right: Behind the Scenes at Asheville Lyric Opera's Fast-Paced Rehearsals for 'Don Pasquale'
The singing is rich; the costumes are extravagant. Even the plot of the Asheville Lyric Opera's upcoming show, "Don Pasquale," is brimming with excessive passion and comedy. Read more...
Masters of the Fiddle
The Diana Wortham Theatre at Pack Place presents "Masters of the Fiddle," a whirlwind evening of fiddle-driven music, dance and song with Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy Feb. 1 and 2. Read more...
NC Stage Continues Its Free Play-Reading Series
True West will be read Saturday January 23rd at 2:00pm at North Carolina Stage Company, and Sunday January 24th at 2:00pm at the Reuter Center on the campus of UNC Asheville. Read more...
Introducing the NC Stage Company: Stage Hands
Do you love NC Stage and wish you could do more to support them? Is it sometimes difficult to find ways to give to the theatre? NC Stage Company needs your talents, your time, and your creativity as much as they need financial support. This is your chance to be part of the theatre. Read more...
Don't miss the 8th Annual Asheville Fringe Arts Festival - January 21-24, 2010
The Asheville Fringe Arts Festival is a featured collection of performers, artists and experimental music composers . Those of you who've attended the Fringe Arts Festival in the past know that it is a cabaret of curious and eccentric performances that inspire your divergent side to come out and play. Read more...
December - LaZoom Holiday Rides
Bring your friends and family on board the LaZoom Bus and allow us to do the rest. Your costumed tour operator will lead you on a ride through Asheville like your NEVER been on before. We'd love to see ya. So, get your ticket and Get on the Bus! Read more...
Warren Haynes and The Funny Business Comedy Club Announce the Comedy Jam!
December 10th marks the date for the first Christmas Comedy Jam presented by Warren Haynes and the Funny Business Comedy Club on the lower level of the historic S&W Cafeteria Building in downtown Asheville. Read more...
A Dream of Camelot
A Dream of Camelot begins in tragedy as Morgaine discovers that Arthur, the lover of her youth, and Mordred, their son, have killed each other. Morgaine sings a lamentation in which she realizes her own potential to recreate the dream of Camelot along with others who can take responsibility for facing the issues that had destroyed their society. Lancelot, and then Mordred and Arthur, now dead, choose to find a better way in the hopes of creating a new Camelot. Read more...
Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale - October 8th, 9th and 10th at 8 pm, and the 11th at 7 pm
We began with ten cast members and the script of Shakespeare's wonderous and heartfelt story. Through improvisation and discussion, the Warren Wilson Theatre ensemble has created a unique production of this tale, which is best for winter. It's not quite winter yet, but there is a chill in the air that recalls days gone by and stories lost to Time. Read more...
It's another funky party up in BootyBandLand! Sept 24-27th
In a chill spot called Booty Band Land, musicians and artists will flourish through an epic celebration not to be missed... or forgotten. This festival was created to provide an affordable and interactive, yet top-quality event that will showcase the excellent emerging artists in the region, as well as some world-class greats. Read more...
TEDxAsheville - Locally Organized Version of 'Ultimate Brain Spa' at the Orange Peel August 30
Local fans of the TED conference will present TEDxAsheville, an independently organized TED event, Sunday, August 30, 7 - 11 PM, at The Orange Peel. Mix your favorite mind-blowing lecture in college with a hot night out at a club, add a few beers, and you've got TEDxAsheville, where smart is sexy and great ideas are the name of the game. Four Asheville visionaries and a sprinkling of breathtaking local performance talent offer a night of fun for your head that promises inspiration, excitement and ideas worth spreading. Read more...
August 14th and 15th Parties Celebrate 5 Years for the Asheville Arts Center
On Friday August 14th from 5 - 8 PM and Saturday the 15th from 10 am - 3 PM the Asheville Arts Center celebrates its 5-year anniversary with 2 exciting birthday parties. The Friday evening party will be held at the South location on Summit Avenue (off of Hendersonville Road before Long Shoal's Rd). Read more...
MPAC's 4th of July Block Party in Weaverville
MPAC presents the 4th of July Block Party as a continuance of Weaverville's 15 year old celebration with average attendance of 31,000. This is going to be a fabulous event that also doubles as a fund / awareness raiser for a few organizations including the North Buncombe High School Band Boosters. Highlights are headlining music act - Jen and the Juice, a Firecracker 5K race, Asheville Aerial Arts, The Blue Ridge Roller Girls, Asheville Puppetry Alliance, and a variety of performers and of course... fireworks! Read more...
23 Skidoo DVD Release Event
Local kid-hop act, Secret Agent 23 Skidoo has shown again and again that he knows how to throw a party. Last Saturday's DVD release party at the Grey Eagle was no exception. 23 has an energy and stage presence that keeps your feet movin' weather you have diapers or dentures. Read more...
Diana Wortham Theatre Virtual Tour
A virtual tour of one of our members, the Diana Wortham Theatre, done by another Chamber member, Ed Holmes & Associates Land Surveyors, PA. Very cool stuff! Read more...
Director's Notes for 'A Number' at North Carolina Stage Company, April 15 to May 3, 2009
Were you jazzed to see Tyler Hansbrough work his magic for the Tar Heels in the recent NCAA National Championship? Did you take in the game on a big flat-screen TV? What would you have given to have really been there, court-side? Read more...
LaZoom Kicks Off 3rd Season with Local Discounts
LaZoom is offering $10 tickets for locals April 15th through the 30th! Join us in celebrating our 3rd season with a new comedy show and live music. Grab a friend and a six pack and hop on the bus! Bus departs at 6pm from the French Broad food Co-op at 90 Biltmore Ave Tuesday-Saturday. Read more...
