Creative Loafing Charlotte

Today's Top 5: Thursday

• by Anita Overcash
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
• Tags: Arts, Today's Top Five, Melancholia, film, Carolina Cinemas Crownpoint, Nicolay and the Hot at Nights, The Evening Muse, music, MMA Cage Fights, Coyote Joe's, The Art of Cleonique Hilsaca & Alexandra Loesser, Genome, art, On the Verge, Warehouse Performing Arts Center, theater, Charlotte, NC, Anita Overcash

Today's Top 5: Tuesday

• by Anita Overcash
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
• Tags: Arts, Today's Top Five, Love, Loss and What I Wore, theater, McGlohon Theatre, 5th Annual Stout Pull, Coyote Joe's, One God? Yours or Mine: A Provocative Look at the Concept of God, The Islamic Perspective, lecture, Temple Beth El, Janet Williams, The Tennessee Tramp, The Comedy Zone Lake Norman, Madama Butterfly, Belk Theater, Charlotte, NC, Anita Overcash

Floored: The Borrowers delivers big entertainment

• by Perry Tannenbaum
• Tags: Performing Arts, Children's Theatre of Charlotte, The Borrowers, theater, Charlotte, Mary Norton, Perry Tannenbaum

Theater review: The Amen Corner

• by Perry Tannenbaum
A full evening of rousing music, colorful characters, and meaningful conflicts.
• Tags: Arts, On Q Productions, theater, The Amen Corner, James Baldwin, Perry Tannenbaum, Charlotte, NC, Duke Energy Theatre

Today's Top 5: Friday

• by Anita Overcash
Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today.
• Tags: Arts, Today's Top Five, The Color Purple, Ovens Auditorium, theater, The Chuckleheads, Dilworth Neighborhood Grille, comedy, SlamCharlotte Poetry Slam, McGlohon Theatre, spoken word, The Legacy Committee, Mez, Ballot Measure 9, Unitarian Universalist Church of Charlotte, things to do in Charlotte, weekend, weekend events, Charlotte, NC, Anita Overcash

Weekender, Jan. 20-22

• by Anita Overcash
Check out these events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area this weekend.
• Tags: Arts, See & Do: The Weekender, Queen's Feast: Charlotte Restaurant Week, dining, Global Fever: Moscow Never Sleeps, DJ Dim, Kosta X, nightlife, Dharma Lounge, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Architecture + Film series, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, film, New Year New You, Kalu Restaurant, makeover, beauty, comedy, Paula Poundstone, Knight Theater, NASCAR Acceleration, Charlotte Convention Center, racing, motorsports, Doubt a Parable, Theatre Charlotte, The Chinese Dynasty, food, restaurants, Chinese New Year, Citizens of the Universe, Rosencrantz & Guilsdenstern Are Dead, Chop Shop, theater, things to do in Charlotte this weekend, weekend, Charlotte, NC, Anita Overcash

Watch Memphis at home

• by Matt Brunson
Award-winning Broadway show to be released on Blu-ray and DVD Jan. 24.
• Tags: Film, Film News, film, film news, theater, Memphis, Broadway, musical, Ovens Auditorium, Matt Brunson, Charlotte, NC

Theater review: CAST's Jack Goes Boating

• by Perry Tannenbaum
• Tags: Performing Arts, Carolina Actors Studio Theatre, Jack Goes Boating, arts, theater, Charlotte, Perry Tannenbaum

If Beale Street could talk: A review of Memphis

• by Perry Tannenbaum
Memphis the Musical blew into Ovens Auditorium last week.
• Tags: Arts, Memphis, musical, Ovens Auditorium, theater, performing arts, Huey Calhoun, Dewey Phillips, Alan Freed, music, 1950s, black, Beale Street, Bryan Fenkart, Felicia Boswell, Sergio Trujillo, Perry Tannenbaum

Local actors team up for Social Anxiety web series

• by Anita Overcash
The mockumentary tackles the serious subject of mental disorders.
• Tags: Arts, theater, local actors, Social Anxiety web series, social anxiety, mental illness, Elise DuQuette, Ana Shaw, Lisa MacLeish, Lindsey Moser, Berry Newkirk, Juan Carlos Piedrahita, Barnet Sherman, Edgar Allen Poe

Weekender, Jan. 6-8

• by Anita Overcash
Check out these events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area this weekend.
• Tags: Arts, See & Do: The Weekender, sumo wrestling, Hartigan's Irish Pub, Hidell Brooks Gallery, Johan Hagaman, Justin Robinson, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Evening Muse, All the President's Men, Main Library, Wells Fargo Playhouse, Mint Museum, Romare Bearden, Romare Bearden: Southern Recollections exhibit, Single Cell Productions, Alloy, Bloodsucker's Bash, Underworld Awakening, vampires, DJ Torch, Justin Kates, Memphis, Broadway, Ovens Auditorium, Huey Phillips, Moroccan tagines, tagines, Casablanca Cafe, Moroccan food in Charlotte, The Comedy Zone, Charlotte Comedy Theater, Charlotte, NC, things to do in Charlotte this weekend, music, theater, comedy, nightlife, food, Anita Overcash

CAST reconstructs

• by Anita Overcash
The Save Me A Seat Campaign is accepting donations to help with construction and upcoming 2012 season costs.
• Tags: Arts, theater, Carolina Actors Studio Theatre, construction, donors, Save Me A Seat Campaign, CAST, Anita Overcash, Plaza Midwood, NoDa

Memphis rolls in the new year right

Rock is born again!

• by Perry Tannenbaum
• Tags: Performing Arts, theater, Memphis, rock 'n' roll, musical, Ovens Auditorium, Perry Tannenbaum, Broadway, Charlotte, NC, Joe DiPietro, Elvis, Tony Awards

On Q Productions turns the corner With Baldwin

• by Perry Tannenbaum
• Tags: Performing Arts, theater, arts, On Q Productions, Perry Tannenbaum, The Amen Corner, Broadway, Scenes from the Black Theater, Duke Energy Theatre, Black Pearl Sings!, Queen City Theatre Company, LeShea Stukes

Theater review: Chaps! A Jingle Jangle Christmas

• by Perry Tannenbaum
No, podner, we ain’t saddled with many Christmas tunes in this here musical.
• Tags: Arts, theater, Actor's Theatre of Charlotte, Chaps! A Jingle Jangle Christmas

Weekender, Dec. 23-24

• by Anita Overcash
Check out these events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area this weekend.
• Tags: Arts, See & Do: The Weekender, Julius the Mad Thinker, Dharma Lounge, James Sibley, The Comedy Zone Charlotte, Dieselboy, Neighborhood Theatre, Actor's Theatre of Charlotte, Carolina Actors Studio Theatre, Atherton Mill, things to do in Charlotte this weekend, theater, music, art, sports

Theater reviews: The Nutcracker and A Christmas Carol

• by Perry Tannenbaum
The scoop on NCDT's Nutcracker and Theatre Charlotte's A Christmas Carol performances.
• Tags: Arts, theater, Theatre Charlotte, North Carolina Dance Theatre, dance, review

Theater reviews: Women and Wallace, The Velveteen Rabbit

• by Perry Tannenbaum
• Tags: Theater, art, theater

Edgier stuff on the edges of town: Spring Awakening, God of Carnage, Vanities

• by Perry Tannenbaum
Reviews of theater performances happening NOT in Charlotte.
• Tags: Arts, theater, arts, review

Scrimping on a lump of coal: Junie B. in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells!

• by Perry Tannenbaum
• Tags: Performing Arts, theater, Junie B., Children's Theatre of Charlotte