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Escape… to the East Side
Escape… to the East Side
Preview: Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte Rock the Barn By Perry Tannenbaum After more than a year of lockdowns and social distancing, meat shortages and toilet paper shortages, wildfires and hurricanes, astonishing protests and insurrection – along with more Zoomed meetings and celebrations and religious services than anyone could ever have imagined – are we ready to ROCK? Actor’s Theatre of…
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Hitting the (Monroe) Road With a Slightly Toned-Down Rock of Ages
Hitting the (Monroe) Road With a Slightly Toned-Down Rock of Ages
Review: Rock of Ages at The Barn @ MoRA By Perry Tannenbaum As the exit ramp from the pandemic keeps getting longer, summertime urges to break out of isolation, let loose, and rock out aren’t likely to back up now. In this confused and anxious moment, Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte has taken a nicely calculated route to satisfying these urges, moving from their established HQ at Queens University…
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Hope in the Time of COVID Sees Sleeping Beauty Reawakening in December
Hope in the Time of COVID Sees Sleeping Beauty Reawakening in December
Review: The Arts in the Time of COVID
By Perry Tannenbaum
The COVID collapse happened quickly on March 13. “We were hours away from the curtain rising on our all-new Fairy-Tailored Sleeping Beautywhen we had to postpone the season,” says Hope Muir, Charlotte Ballet’s artistic director. On the morning before that, Charlotte Symphony’s new director of communications, Deirdre Roddin, met with me to…
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Janeta Bounces from Poppins to Billie
Janeta Bounces from Poppins to Billie
Review: Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill By Perry Tannenbaum
Forget the famous nickname for a second. Like only a handful of jazz artists – instrumentalists Miles Davis and John Coltrane come to mind – Billie Holiday’s vocal career had a distinctive arc, leaving the diva’s fans with a blithe and sunny early period of recordings, a forceful and dramatic middle period, and a worldly wise and…
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Trailer Trash Goes to College
Trailer Trash Goes to College
Review: Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical By Perry Tannenbaum
To say that Betsy Kelso and David Nehls’ Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musicalis a sequel – or a prequel – would be an outrageously pretentious way of looking at this crass Yuletide concoction. Pure dirty fun, they would likely proclaim, citing as proof their most memorable song, “Fuck It, It’s Christmas.” Whether…
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Taking Down a Classic Thriller, Lateral Lisp and All
Taking Down a Classic Thriller, Lateral Lisp and All
Review: Silence! The Musical By Perry Tannenbaum
From God of Carnage to Hand to God to The Toxic Avenger and beyond, I’ve seen many of the original Broadway and Off-Broadway shows that Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte has gone on to present in their Queen City premieres. What is singular about Silence! The Musical, perhaps unprecedented, is the fact that the original New York production at PS122…
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ATC’s Outdoor MIDSUMMER Is Electrifying Fun
ATC’s Outdoor MIDSUMMER Is Electrifying Fun
Review: Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM By Perry Tannenbaum
Aside from sporadic Chickspeare ventures in the NoDa Brewing parking lot and a tentative CPCC Shakespeare on the Green production up at their Cato campus two summers ago, we haven’t seen anybody commit to an annual series of outdoor Bard since the Queen City’s second Charlotte Shakespeare bit the dust in 2014. If…
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Actor’s Theatre Shines New Light on Bechdel’s “Family Tragicomic”
Actor’s Theatre Shines New Light on Bechdel’s “Family Tragicomic”
Review: Fun Home at Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte By Perry Tannenbaum
Graphic novelist Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home grabs – and sustains – our attention in large measure because the title is a misnomer, the nickname given by Alison and her siblings to the family business, the Bechdel Funeral Home. Yet as the story unfolds, with its cargo of closeted homosexuality, sexual molestation, and suicide, we…
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