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Holiday Theater & Performances

Holiday Theater

Over the holidays, the local theater heats up with a wide range of performances on the stages around the Asheville area.

After a day of holiday shopping and sightseeing, enjoy some of Asheville's wonderful seasonal theater performances.

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12th Annual Mountain Sports Festival

  • May 25, 2012 - May 27, 2012
  • Location: Carrier Park
  • Address: Amboy Road and Michigan Avenue, Asheville, NC 28806

Experience Springtime in Asheville, NC at the 2012 Mountain Sports Festival. Bring your family and friends and join us at Carrier Park for the outdoor music & sports event of the year!

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9th Annual White Squirrel Festival

  • May 26, 2012 - May 27, 2012
  • Location: Downtown Brevard
  • Address: Downtown Brevard, Brevard, NC

Go Nuts at the 9th Annual White Squirrel Festival! Voted "Best Spring Music Festival in Western North Carolina" by Asheville Citizen Times News Poll 2008.  Thousands of fan go nuts in Downtown Brevard on Memorial Day weekend, in Brevard, North Carolina! You don't want to miss our 14 free, live concerts. Headliners this year: Firecracker Jazz Band and Jeff Sipe Group. We will kick off the 9th Annual White Squirrel Festival with our 5th Annual Memorial Day Parade, which is organize...

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Asheville Beer Week

  • May 24, 2012 - June 3, 2012
  • Location: Various Breweries Around Asheville
  • Recurrence: Recurring daily

The first ever Asheville Beer Week will take place May 24 through June 3, 2012. The ten days celebrating beer and Beer City, USA, will culminate at Asheville's third Beer City Festival on June 2. The mission is to celebrate that nectar known as beer-to taste many different styles of beer and variations on those styles; to pair beer with a smorgasbord of delicious foods; to learn about and explore beer in all its delectable complexity; and, most of all, to have fun drinking beer in the brew...

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Australian Alt-Rocker Chris Pickering

  • May 21, 2012 - May 22, 2012
  • Location: Good Stuff
  • Address: 68 North Main Street, Marshall, NC

Award-winning Australian singer songwriter Chris Pickering takes the stage at Good Stuff two consecutive days this month performing songs from his critically acclaimed album, Work of Fiction. Pickering will debut songs from his upcoming album releasing later this year.  Now a Tennessee resident, Pickering has toured heavily throughout Australia, earning multiple music awards and nominations and releasing two full albums before turning his sights to the States. He has since immersed himse...

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In The Next Room

  • May 9, 2012 - June 10, 2012
  • Location: North Carolina Stage Company
  • Address: 15 Stage Lane, Asheville, NC 28801-2835
  • Venue:  North Carolina Stage Company
  • Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Stylish comedy by Sarah Ruhl about marriage, medicine and the dawn of the age of electricity. Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Dr. Givings is a successful Victorian doctor who operates a clinic for "hysterical" women in his home office - in the next room over from his wife and newborn baby. This insightful comedy was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

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Love Among the Frankensteins (A Monstrous Comedy)

  • May 5, 2012 - June 9, 2012
  • Location: The Magnetic Field Cafe & Bar
  • Address: 372 Depot Street, Asheville, NC 28801
  • Venue:  The Magnetic Field Cafe & Bar

Love Among the Frankensteins (A Monstrous Comedy) tells the story of Henry Victor Frankenstein Whale, a wealthy filmmaking descendant of both the lost line of the Frankensteins and James Whale, director of Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein. At a crucial moment in his career, Henry moves to the real Castle Frankenstein in Germany, only to discover that the original Frankenstein monster and his Bride are not only alive and kicking but presently occupy Castle Frankenstein, embarked upon a...

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Michael Franti & Spearhead

The Sound Of Sunshine - the inspired and inspiring new album by Michael Franti & Spearhead - is a kind of musical sun shower, a bright, beautiful and often buoyant song cycle created to bring all kinds of listeners a sense of hope during rough and rainy times for so many in our world. "Music is sunshine," says Michael Franti, one of the most positive and conscious artists in music today. "Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change...

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Riverdance

  • May 23, 2012
  • Location: Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
  • Address: US Cellular Center, Asheville, NC 28801
  • Venue:  Thomas Wolfe Auditorium

Based on Irish folk dancing styles, Riverdance was originally devised as a 20-minute intermission entertainment for the Eurovision Song Contest. There, its phenomenal reception inspired composer Bill Whelan to expand the piece into a full-length stage show, still centered around Irish music, but now telling a loose story of many different peoples who in the 20th century have found themselves émigrés. The paradoxically formal yet expressive, sensual, and exhilarating energy of tradi...

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The Complete Works of Wm. Shakespeare (abridged): Apocalypse Now!

  • May 10, 2012 - May 26, 2012
  • Location: Montford Park Players
  • Address: 100 Gay St, Asheville, NC 28801
  • Venue:  Montford Park Players
  • Recurrence: Recurring weekly on Sunday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Can three guys really cover thirty-seven Shakespeare plays in less than two hours? Fresh and updated every year, this fast-firing comedy does just that as it parodies all of the Shakespeare plays (plus the sonnets!) with only three performers in two acts. This play is full of energy as the characters run across the stage and keep you guessing how they will pull off the next play. “This irreverent deconstruction of Shakepeare's work makes a dilly of poor Willy. A fantasia of zany energy tha...

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The Teetotallers featuring John Doyle, Martin Hayes & Kevin Crawford

Marvel at the sound of three world class musicians when The Teetotallers Featuring John Doyle, Martin Hayes and Kevin Crawford delight Asheville with a rare triple threat evening of their combined talents.

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Weaverville Roots Festival

  • May 26, 2012
  • Address: Downtown Weaverville, 2 S. Main St., NC 28787

The Weaverville Roots Festival is a three-day celebration of the culture and heritage of Weaverville, NC. On Saturday, May 26, Heritage Day will fill the downtown and park areas with music, demonstrations, food and other entertainment. On Sunday May 27th we will celebrate our Tree City USA status with Arbor Day activities and ceremonies in the nature park, plus entertain our visitors with gospel music and other sacred music. On Memorial Day, May 28th, our roots will be celebrated by honoring tho...

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