Zakir Hussain has been called one of the 20 best Indian musicians of the last few centuries (despite his mom’s early efforts), he’s been in jazz-rock bands and “Apocalypse Now,” he’s got a guy from Journey on his latest DVD. He’ll be in Charlotte Oct. 9.
Since June, Mary Deissler has launched major initiatives that will change the orchestra as we’ve known it for 85 years. Can she also find the money needed to keep the symphony out of debt?
Original production by Blumenthal Performing Arts brings Broadway director-choreographer Dan Knechtges here to create a show about a couple who might fall for each other – if craziness doesn’t get in their way.
Director Antoine Fuqua succeeds with an appealing international cast – Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt and others – a more simplistic story, rough humor and plenty of action.
The show business biographer, who moved to Charlotte last year, analyzes our culture’s extraordinary trickster in “The Tao of Bill,” a philosophy book meant to set you free.
Now 90, he’s not going to get another leading role as effective as the title character, a widower who suspects his marriage may have been a sham. Kerry Bishé does good work as his equally stubborn granddaughter.
Director Oliver Stone shows us the back story of Edward Snowden, who revealed in 2013 that the U.S. government was spying without reason or warrant on millions of its citizens. But this heavy-handed film is beside the real point.
Seventeen years after a woman goes missing, her younger brother takes another documentary crew into the Maryland woods to find the malevolent spirit who snatched her.
With its 28th season coming up, Charlotte’s professional theater for adults has a new home – and new challenges. Take a look at the new space, and find out what three things must happen, says Chip Decker, for it to survive.
