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Performing Arts
Five members of Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre are hard at work in the studio at BeBe Theatre perfecting the moves of Fables, an interpretation of the book by Arnold Lobel. But the lessons aren’t limited to footwork, or even the morals imparted by the anim...
When Moog Music teamed up with independent concert promoter A.C. Entertainment to move Moogfest from New York City to Asheville last year, it was a boon for the city and regional electronic music fans, and added international status to our music scene. Celebrating the...
The music of Beethoven, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky comes to life alongside that of Duke Ellington and Star Wars at three symphonies in the area: Asheville Symphony Orchestra, The Hendersonville Symphony, and the Western Piedmont Symphony in Hickory. You can catch world-a...
The only way to get closer to the performers during the Asheville Chamber Music Series is to sit on one of the musician’s laps, but they prefer you sit in the audience. Seriously, these intimate concerts held at the Unitarian Universalist Church are designed to...
Even with his legacy resonating in each note sung and strummed during the venerable Mountain Dance & Folk Festival, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, who founded the annual event in 1928, can seem a distant character in our history. Lunsford recorded nearly 350 songs, storie...
I don’t think playwrights learn a great deal from writing a play and sticking it in a drawer. They need to see it,” says Steve Samuels, artistic director of The Magnetic Field in Asheville. At the only theater in the Southeast that produces all original wo...
Aspiring thespians find their voice, and more, at Stella Adler Studio of Acting
Asheville may be thousands of miles off-Broadway and even farther from Hollywood, but it’s the new home for a satellite branch of the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. It won...
Asheville doesn’t suffer from a lack of artistic outlets, but some local performers and supporters of the arts are seeking a major upgrade on one front. They want the city to host a performance venue with all the modern accoutrements—one that advances Ashe...
Like a fairy tale character waking from a long slumber, the Masonic Temple in Asheville has thrown open its hallowed doors to reveal a lighter, brighter side. The building was designed by Biltmore House architect and Master Mason Richard Sharp Smith and completed in 1...
The 250-seat Peacock Playhouse in Hayesville has yet to become the full-fledged performing arts center its benefactor, Lilith Lidseen, dreamt of, but there’s no doubt she’d be proud of the place were she alive today. In more than 30 years, the venue has se...
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