Local is the New Black... Friday

New logo from the Asheville Grown Business Alliance

This Friday, November 26 -- BLACK FRIDAY, as it's commonly known in the advertising and big-box, chain store world -- we encourage you to shop local for your presents this holiday season. 

Have a theatre-lover in your life? (If you're reading this blog, you probably are one and know a few others, presumably.) We've got gift ideas for you! How about the script of one of our upcoming spring productions -- Boeing-Boeing, One Flea Spare, or The Glass Menagerie -- from our official 2010-2011 script purveyors, Malaprop's Bookstore, in addition to an NCSC gift certificate for tickets to see the show? Perfect combination, no? Or how about getting someone a flex pass for the rest of the season? Perhaps you can pair a gift certificate from one of the many excellent independent restaurants in town with an NCSC gift certificate for tickets to make a night of it?

Can you see it?

Buying local really does make a difference, so please take that into consideration this holiday season. We appreciate it, too, of course! Any questions about gift certificates or our season, give us a call: 828.239.0263! We'd love to hear from you. Keep us PLAY-ing LOCAL!

Live from... the Historic Henderson County Courthouse?

Photo courtesy of the Baker-Barber Collection

YES! Today is the day! We have our first performance of our co-production of Live from WVL Radio Theatre: It's a Wonderful Life tonight, and we're excited. That's right, in case you haven't yet heard, we've partnered with Flat Rock Playhouse to mount our annual seasonal production of It's a Wonderful Life in the Historic Henderson County Courthouse in downtown Hendersonville. As a result of the change of location, there are now more opportunities to see the play! Opening today, Friday, November 19, and running through Thursday, December 23, there are 40 performances in total. A couple of other great things about this partnership are: 1) There is more parking (and it's FREE!) and, 2) The variety and opportunity to check out the many excellent restaurants in downtown Hendersonville -- including Flight Wood Grill & Wine Bar, Thai Spice, West First Wood-Fired Pizza, and others -- is fantastic.

NC Stage regularly collaborates with our Partner Company-in-Residence, immediate theatre project, to put this play on in the holiday season. In fact, the script is an adaptation by Willie Repoley, who is also performing in it. As is frequently said, theatre is a collaborative art, and when there are great artistic minds around, like there are down at Flat Rock Playhouse, it just seems natural to work together. Flat Rock had great results after mounting two productions in the courthouse earlier this year, 12 Angry Men and A Few Good Men, and we commend them for using a non-traditional performance space. If you got to see 12 Angry Men at the courthouse, then you got to see some of our favorite guys up on stage: Charlie, Willie, Michael MacCauley, and Scott Treadway, among others. (And you can see them on stage again soon!)

So, are you coming? We hope so. Tickets are available through Flat Rock Playhouse's website or by calling 828-693-0731.

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Do you have any recommendations (restaurants, shops, etc.) for folks heading to Hendersonville to see the show? If so, please share!

November 'No Shame'

We'll have NUN of it.

It's that time again... time for your monthly dose of 'No Shame Theatre' at NC Stage! No Shame Theatre is an open performance venue for original and compelling works of theatre. Pieces arrive up to an hour before show time. They’re cast, rehearsed, and put on stage in front of a live audience an hour later. 

 

We have only three rules: 

1) Work must be original, 

2) Short (under 5 minutes), and, 

3) You can't break anything or anyone.

This Saturday, November 13

10 PM to do it; 11 PM to watch other people do it. 

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We here at NC Stage want to know:

When was the last time you felt utterly shameless?

too long ago to remember? maybe you should come by the theatre this Saturday...

 

 

 

 

THE END IS NEAR *

 * See Angels at NC Stage! - Run Ends SUNDAY 11/7

Fun Internet Search Anecdote: 

It's true! The apocalypse is here, if you take the definition from the Greek, meaning 'revelation' or 'lifting of the veil.' Angels in America is an apocalypse in itself!

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It's hard to believe we're in our final week of performances of Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, but it's true. Time flies, but don't let it fly by you this weekend if you haven't seen this production yet. As I'm writing this, there are only 95 tickets left spread over the four remaining performances -- WAIT -- make that three remaining performances; tonight is sold out. Word's been spreading and the word is good. (As are the pictures! Credit: Treadshots Photography)

Jorja Ursin as Hannah Pitt

Speaking of words, if you have seen the show already and want to read the play, head to Malaprop's, our lovely neighbor and script purveyor for the 2010-2011 NCSC Season. And let us remind you, our production is only Part One! Tony Kushner's masterpiece is so epic, it's a two-part play, and Part Two, AKA Perestroika, picks up where Millennium Approaches leaves off. The story continues!

Andrew Livingston and Michael MacCauley as Joe Pitt and Roy Cohn

So pass the word along and share your Angels story with a friend, or with us! We love hearing from patrons, so give us a call, write on our blog, send an email, or write us a letter -- however you want to communicate we're open to it. Hope to see you this weekend!

Andrew Livingston and Rebecca Morris as Joe and Harper Pitt