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Mainstage shows, Music on the Rock, Black Box highlight Playhouse season

By l, Published: February 2, 2023

A Southeastern premiere and Shakespeare’s most wicked wonder join beloved Main Stage productions, Music on the Rock and Playhouse Jr. Family Programming this year at the Flat Rock Playhouse.

The Main Stage curtain lifts later this month with Here Comes the Sun Band & Friends – Music of the Beatles and More!, the musically-authentic act that will rock-and-roll fans through a decade of The Beatles music. The popular Music on the Rock series will also feature Rumours – The Ultimate Fleetwood Mac Tribute Show in March, followed by the bluesy swagger of the Rolling Stones.

The season's Main Stage series kicks off in April with Ring of Fire, a musical portrait of "the Man in Black,” Johnny Cash. Mother’s Day weekend brings the witty and hilarious Steel Magnolias. Children of all ages and the Vagabonds who never grew up will delight in a newly imagined Cinderella: Enchanted, a fresh take on a magical fairytale, followed by Broadway’s longest-running musical and infamous nine-time Tony Award-winner, A Chorus Line. And this summer, the Playhouse is thrilled to present the Southeastern premiere of The Girl on the Train, a thrilling mystery based on the bestselling novel by Paula Hawkins.

In time for the haunting season, William Shakespeare’s Macbeth tragedy will engage audiences in the terrifyingly prophetic tale of revenge, murder and madness in a smaller, intimate setting as part of the theater's new Black Box series. Slowpoke! The True Story of a Tortoise and Hare, an Appalachian retelling of Aesop's fable arrives in November, and the season concludes with the popular holiday must-see A Playhouse Christmas — the same festivity and excellence in an all new show.

Tickets go on sale Feb. 28. Single tickets for all remaining shows go on sale on March 8. For a complete lineup with show descriptions and to purchase tickets, visit www.flatrockplayhouse.org.