Theater

Eastland Mall, Price's Chicken Coop, the Excelsior Club, anyone? Mia Love Live's new stage show this Sunday at the Blumenthal honors the places and people who helped make Charlotte, Charlotte.

The creators of the new immersive work "SwimCap" have placed a critical lens on the idea that swimming isn't for African Americans. The show opens this weekend in an historic church in uptown Charlotte.

"Here Lies Love" tells the story of Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos' rise and fall in the Philippines. The $22 million immersive musical production is a big Broadway gamble.

Amina Faye last performed on stage at the Belk Theater in uptown Charlotte when she won the 2016 high school Blumey Award for best actress. This week, she returns in the national tour of "Six the Musical."

The theater was sweltering. There was no script. And yet it was a swift, entertaining show.

Only a handful of theater photographers work on Broadway and their challenge is to capture the essence of live performance. Ahead of the Tony Awards, we ask three about their craft.

"The Addams Family," "Clue" and "Frozen JR" were among the most popular shows, according to a new survey. But the report also showed that drama teachers are nervous about censorship.

Writers for film and TV may be on strike, but writers for the stage will get busy this coming week fleshing out ideas for what could be Charlotte's next big show. We speak with the playwright behind the Queen City New Play Initiative ahead of this year's playwright's festival.

Producers have been saying for years that large Broadway orchestras are not financially feasible. In fact, the issue led to a strike 20 years ago. So why are some shows bringing them back?

Omar ibn Said’s face — and his story — are emerging larger and more clearly on a grand scale at the moment with the North Carolina premiere of the opera co-written by Grammy-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens.