The Diana Wortham Theatre Mainstage Series includes a wide range of top touring artists in music, theater, dance, comedy, and other performing arts. The 2014/2015 Mainstage Series season opens September 19, 2014 with Yesterday and Today: The Interactive Beatles Experience, a foot-stomping, sing-along sensational night presenting the songs of aContinue Reading
Driving Miss Daisy, the Pulitzer Prize winning drama by Alfred Uhry, opens this month at Asheville Community Theatre (ACT). Driving Miss Daisy shares the story of the relationship between an elderly white Southern Jewish woman, Daisy Werthan, and her African-American chauffeur, Hoke Colburn over the span of 25 years. DrivingContinue Reading
Four years ago Mark Jones blew audiences away when he appeared on the HART stage as Buddy Holly in “Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story.” Ever since HART Executive Director, Steve Lloyd has been asked repeatedly if he could bring the show back. Well, recreating a production is virtually impossible butContinue Reading
Featuring Internationally Acclaimed Artists Brentano Quartet and Violist, Hsin-Yun Huang to Open Asheville Amadeus Festival in Collaboration with the Asheville Symphony Orchestra in March 2015. The Asheville Chamber Music Series (ACMS) will be presenting a distinguished roster of internationally acclaimed ensembles for its 2014-15 season, including the renowned Brentano QuartetContinue Reading
Music of Rachmaninoff, Gershwin & American Hymns David Troy Francis is an exciting, authoritative performer described by the Los Angeles Times as consistently absorbing, whether in lyrical repose or compulsive fury. Mr. Francis has recorded eight cds ranging from his unique arrangements of American Hymns to the world premiere recordingContinue Reading
HART audiences get another series of favorites this month with Rogers and Hammerstein’s A Grand Night for Singing. This Tony nominated show features familiar songs with new arrangements. It was conceived by Tony winner Walter Bobbie, who decided to take the songs out of context and reinvent new situations toContinue Reading
The Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival, one of the longest running chamber music festivals in the United States, presents its 45th season to the listeners of Western North Carolina. The five week festival will perform concerts in Swannanoa in Kittredge Theater on the Warren Wilson College campus on July 1, 8,Continue Reading
by Parker Davis The classic story of South Pacific, after traversing the spectrum of art forms and earning success as a novel, a broadway musical, and a film, will debut this month in Asheville as an opera. The book, Tales of the South Pacific, was published in 1947 and premieredContinue Reading
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Featuring the music of Neil Sedaka, and Rogers and Hammerstein’s A Grand Night For Singing. HART’s next two shows are sure fire crowd pleasers. Coming first: Breaking Up is Hard to Do, a musical comedy set in the Catskills at Esther’s Paradise Resort onContinue Reading
