Tightening What’s Frightening
Flat Rock Playhouse makes a gothic classic even scarier It’s not a Halloween story, but Flat Rock Playhouse is presenting the psychological thriller The Turn…
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Summer School on Stage
“He had already done it, and he told me I had to do it because it would change my life,” recalls Lisa K. Bryant…
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Young music collective was made to please
Under the auspices of the Irish Cultural Academy, musician/producer Eric Cunningham has assembled the Young Irelanders, a talented collective of performers who put a…
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Summer of Love in November: The Women of Woodstock
Instead of Jimi, Santana, and Creedence, consider Janis, Joan, and Melanie. August 1969: The Women of Woodstock, hosted by Flat Rock Playhouse’s Music on…
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How to Love Him
His melodies are so ubiquitous with Broadway that a Google search uncovers all kinds of fun “top ten” and even “top 50” lists dedicated…
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Eighty Years and Counting
“This visionary had the wherewithal to come to this area and say, ‘We need theater,’” Dane Whitlock, senior director of marketing and development at…
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Dreaming of a Green Christmas
In this month’s issue, Bold Life uncovers the strange-but-true meanings behind a selection of the classical and pop canons’ best-loved yuletide carols (https://www.boldlife.com/know-merry-comes/). Some…
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Wing(s) and a Prayer
Those among us who are less that crafty, finding it a challenge to put together a template Christmas card, never mind engaging in the…
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Dance If You Want To
Scruffy, gravel-voiced songwriter Paul Westerberg, the elder statesmen of alternative ’80s-’90s rock, once shocked his flannel-shirted discipleship by declaring that no one had ever…
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The Importance of Comparative Theater
In Oscar Wilde’s cheerfully cantering masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest, protagonist Jack Worthing indulges in a hectic double existence, leaving behind the burden…
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