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Henderson County News
LOCAL BRIEFS: Craft fair, patriotic books donation, St. John performance
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Tags: arts | performing arts | Republican Party
Flat Rock Life
Black Box shows 'reintroduce' Playhouse 70 years after founding
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When the Flat Rock Playhouse debuts its daring new Black Box series this week, the 70-year-old theater is hoping to “make a first impression again,” the theater’s director says. Read Story »
Tags: Flat Rock Playhouse | performing arts
Henderson County News
Playhouse debuts new Black Box Series next month
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The Flat Rock Playhouse debuts its new Black Box Series next month when it stages "God of Carnage" and "Blood Knot" in a setting "where the audience and artists share the stage together for an intimate and immersive theatre experience." Read Story »
Tags: Flat Rock Playhouse | performing arts | Black Box Series
Henderson County News
City may loosen regulation of live music downtown
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The downtown music scene could go later into the night under a proposed ordinance change the City Council will consider in August. Read Story »
Tags: Music | Historic Downtown Hendersonville | performing arts
Henderson County News
Saluda's Top of the Grade concert series returns June 24
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SALUDA — The Top of the Grade Summer Concert Series returns for the season on Friday, June 24, at McCreery Park in Saluda with alt-country and honkytonk band Fancy and the Gentlemen from Asheville. Read Story »
Tags: Saluda | performing arts | outdoor concerts
Henderson County News
'West Side Story' opens July 1 for a long run
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"West Side Story," one of the most memorable musicals and greatest love stories of all time, opens on July 1 at the Flat Rock Playhouse and runs through July 30. Read Story »
Tags: Flat Rock Playhouse | performing arts | Covid-19 arts cancellations | musicals | West Side Story
Henderson County News
Flow Tribe kicks off Rhythm & Brews season tonight
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The 2022 Rhythm & Brews Concert Series opens its 2022 season tonight with the high energy Cuban-Caribbean-R&B-soul-hip-hop performance of Flow Tribe and opening act LazrLuvr. Read Story »
Tags: Rhythm & Brews concert series | performing arts | outdoor concerts
Henderson County Life
Fletcher Community Chorus 'back in sing' for concert next week
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FLETCHER — Fletcher Community Chorus is “back in the sing” and ready to present its first free public concert in two years. Read Story »
Tags: Fletcher | performing arts
Henderson County News
Hendersonville Theatre opens 2022 season this spring
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Hendersonville’s community theater is entering its 56th season with a new name —Hendersonville Theater. Read Story »
Tags: Hendersonville Little Theatre | performing arts | Hendersonville Community Theatre
Henderson County News
Community Band returns on Dec. 5 to perform 'Sounds of the Season'
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The Hendersonville Community Band is delighted to announce its return to the Concert Stage with “Sounds of the Season,” a collection of holiday music to warm your hearts, at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 5, in the Blue Ridge Conference Hall at Blue Ridge Community College. Read Story »
Tags: performing arts | Hendersonville Community Band | Christmas performances
Henderson County News
High school thespians win honors from state festival
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The theatre departments at all four of Henderson County's traditional public high schools are celebrating their recognition in the 2021 NCTC High School Play Festival regionals Nov. 5-6 at Gardner-Webb University, hauling a total of 19 group and individual awards home to Henderson County. Read Story »
Tags: theater | performing arts
Henderson County News
LOCAL BRIEFS: 'A Christmas Memory,' Bounty is back, organ recital
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Tags: performing arts | Bounty of Bethlehem
Henderson County News
LOCAL BRIEFS: Scenic hikes, renowned pianist at First Baptist, memorial concert
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Tags: hiking | performing arts | First Baptist Church
Henderson County News
Music on Main opens Friday
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The Music On Main concert series returns to Hendersonville at 7 p.m. Friday with Daniel Sage, a singer/multi-instrumentalist/composer/producer from New York City. Read Story »
Tags: Music on Main | performing arts
Henderson County News
E.R. Haire Jr. to present Capote's 'Christmas Story'
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FLAT ROCK — Actor and theologian E.R. Haire Jr. will present Truman Capote’s "A Christmas Memory" as a one-man show at the Episcopal Church of St. John in the Wilderness at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 19, and Sunday, Dec. 20, in the church Parish Hall on Rutledge Drive across from the sanctuary. Read Story »
Tags: Christmas | performing arts | E.R. Haire Jr.
Henderson County Business
Divided City Council OKs $15,000 grant to help theater reopen
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In a split vote, the Hendersonville City Council last week authorized a $15,000 grant to help the Center for Arts and Entertainment downtown make the theater safe for a return to live performances. Read Story »
Tags: theater | performing arts | Center for Art & Entertainment | Jeanie Linder | Menopause the Musical
Henderson County Life
LOCAL BRIEFS: Spring Ahead concert, Hot Club, linens for Lent, African art
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Community events include the Hendersonville Community Band's Spring Ahead concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, the Hot Club of Cowtown at BRCC next Saturday, an open mic writers forum, Trinity Presbyterian Church's linens for Lent and an exhibit of African art. Read Story »
Tags: performing arts | visual arts
Henderson County News
High school actors win awards at theater conference
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Actors at four Henderson County high schools are celebrating their honors at the 2019 NCTC High School Play Festival Nov. 8-9 in Greensboro. Together, the schools’ theater departments brought home 18 awards and a Superior rating. Read Story »
Tags: performing arts | high school theater
Henderson County Life
LOCAL BRIEFS: Movie music, juried art show, m leaf pickup, climate change
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In a tribute to the silver screen, the Hendersonville Community Band will feature movie themes spanning several decades in a performance at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct.20, at the at Blue Ridge Conference Hall at BRCC. Read Story »
Tags: movies | performing arts | fall | leaf peepers
Henderson County News
Event celebrates life and legacy of Nina Simone
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Gov. Roy Cooper has proclaimed “The Life and Legacy of Nina Simone” in North Carolina to commemorate the legacy of the High Priestess of Soul, Nina Simone. Read Story »
Tags: Music | performing arts | civil rights | Nina Simone
Henderson County News
Center for A&I stages ‘Menopause’ in concert
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On Monday afternoon, women in the cast of “Menopause: The Musical” received a tasty treat. The edible arrangement came from an admirer of the show who send the fruit every time the show opens in a new city. Read Story »
Henderson County Life
Lyle Lovett brings Large Band to Brevard
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BREVARD — Brevard Music Center, in collaboration with Mountain Song Productions, announces the return of Grammy Award-winning Lyle Lovett and his Large Band to BMC's lakeside Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 8. Read Story »
Tags: Brevard | performing arts | Brevard Music Center | Transylvania County
Henderson County News
Hendersonville trio to sing national anthem before Cincinnati Reds game
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Matthew Rogers was an encyclopedia of names and statistics when it came to his beloved Cincinnati Reds. Read Story »
Tags: performing arts | Steve Johnson | Matthew Rogers
Henderson County News
HCT announces honors for 2018 season
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Tags: theater | Hendersonville Little Theatre | performing arts | Hendersonville Community Theatre
Henderson County News
New stage company competes for patrons, performers
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Jimmy Ferraro’s first paid singing gig was in a Long Island nightclub, accompanied by his parents. He was 16. Read Story »
Henderson County News
Hendersonville singer going 'straight to Hollywood' for American Idol
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Tags: performing arts | American Idol | Meghan Woods
Flat Rock Business
‘Mamma Mia!’ and magic parking at Playhouse
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On opening night of “Mamma Mia!” last month, I spotted Bill McKibbin striding toward the Lowndes house on the great flat rock. Read Story »
Tags: Flat Rock Playhouse | Lisa K. Bryant | performing arts
Henderson County Life
Dance studio nominated for national award
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On the heels of their Walt Disney World Resort performances, staffers from Pat’s School of Dance will head to Hollywood, California for the 7th Annual Industry Dance Awards & Cancer Benefit Show on Aug. 15. Read Story »
Tags: Pat Shepherd | performing arts | Pats School of Dance | Pat School of Dance
Henderson County News
Hendersonville Chorale presents spring concert Sunday
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Tags: performing arts
Henderson County News
WEEKEND: All-County chorus, roads scholar, chorale Christmas concert
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Tags: performing arts
Henderson County News
Longtime Playhouse designer dies at age 60
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Bruce R. Bailey, a longtime set designer who managed theater productions at the Flat Rock Playhouse and in Southwest Florida for more than 30 years, died suddenly at his home in Fort Myers, Fla., Tuesday at age 60. Friends said the cause of death was heart failure. Read Story »
Tags: Flat Rock Playhouse | performing arts
Henderson County News
WEEKEND TIPOFF: Music, Dark Night Studio
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Here are the weekend events: Read Story »
Tags: Flat Rock Playhouse | Music on Main | performing arts | Weekend Tipoff
Henderson County Life
Mr. Weakley directs, HHS grads star in original play
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Hendersonville High School theater teacher Todd Weakley will direct the premiere of an original play that stars two of his former students. Read Story »
Tags: Hendersonville High School | HHS Alumni Association | performing arts | Todd Weakley
Henderson County News
Acclaimed musicians kick off Songcatchers in forest
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PISGAH FOREST — Acclaimed musicians Laura Boosinger and Josh Goforth will open the annual Songcatchers Music Series Cradle of Forestry in America’s at 4 p.m. on Sunday. Read Story »
Tags: bluegrass | performing arts | Pisgah National Forest
Henderson County News
HHS seniors set to perform 'Thoroughly Modern Millie'
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Hendersonville High School’s class of 2015 continues a 93-year-old tradition when it performs the senior play Thursday through Saturday. The senior class added a Saturday matinee for the first time in decades. Read Story »
Tags: Hendersonville High School | HHS Hall of Fame | performing arts
Henderson County News
EHHS to perform 'The Fantasticks' this week
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East Henderson High School students will perform in the spring play, "The Fantasticks," Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at 7 p.m. in the school auditorium. Read Story »
Henderson County News
Play festival highlights high school actors
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In its sixth year, the collaborative project of Henderson County Public Schools' four high schools is presenting a showcase of 30-minute plays at 6 p.m. Friday from 6-8 p.m. at the Hendersonville High School auditorium. Read Story »
Tags: performing arts
Henderson County News
Mountain balladeers to perform
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Two eighth-generation mountain ballad singers will be featured in the "Keeping the Fires Burning" series presented by the Center for Cultural Preservation at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5, at Patton Auditorium. Donna Ray Norton and Melanie Rice Penland, both from Sodom, Madison County, will perform and discuss the history of ballad music and how it evolved as it crossed the wide sea. Read Story »
Tags: Music | performing arts | Southern Appalachian culture | Center for Cultural Preservation
Hendersonville Life
LIGHTNING PHOTOS: HMS to perform at NC music teachers' conference
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Longtime Hendersonville High School band director Fran Shelton stood outside the band room at Hendersonville Middle School before the morning bell on on a recent morning. Read Story »
Tags: Music | Hendersonville Middle School | performing arts | Buddy Gudger
Hendersonville Life
Donation will buy risers for concert choir
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A Hendersonville donor has made a $6,000 contribution for the purchase of new risers for the Carolina Concert Choir, Judy Meinzer, president of the concert choir, announced on Thursday. Read Story »
Tags: performing arts | Carolina Concert Choir | Eleanor Meloun
Flat Rock Life
LIGHTNING REVIEW: Turbulence works in 'Boeing Boeing'
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Carried skyward by a refreshing mix of familiar faces and newcomers, "Boeing Boeing" brightens the stage at Flat Rock Playhouse Downtown even as the Mainstage goes dark in the run-up to "Miss Saigon." Read Story »
Tags: Flat Rock Playhouse | Scott Treadway | Paige Posey | Lisa K. Bryant | performing arts
Flat Rock Life
LIGHTNING REVIEW: House cheers for 'My Fair Lady'
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Let's see here. The first note I jotted down says "DM made stage simple & deep & cloaked in purple haze." Fear not. That's no cultural reference. Read Story »
Tags: Flat Rock Playhouse | performing arts
Flat Rock Life
LIGHTNING REVIEW: Vagabonds back in 'Vanya and Sonia'
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First things first. How do you pronounce the name of this play, "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike"? Read Story »
Tags: Flat Rock Playhouse | Scott Treadway | Paige Posey | Lisa K. Bryant | performing arts
Hendersonville Life
Veteran drummer creates 'Spinterviews' of musical greats
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Rob Tolleson dates his start as a music journalist to age 10 when he was growing up in San Francisco in the Sixties. Read Story »
Tags: Music | performing arts | Spinterviews | Rob Tolleson
Henderson County Life
High school actors to produce, perform in WHEN
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Theater students from Henderson County public high schools will perform in the annual WHEN Project at 6 p.m. on Friday, March 21, at the HHS auditorium. Read Story »
Tags: theater | performing arts
Hendersonville Life
LIGHTNING PHOTOS: HHS band rehearses for Carnegie Hall
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On a sunny Saturday afternoon, just over a hundred musicians are going over and over the pieces that they will perform in just over a month. Read Story »
Tags: Hendersonville High School | HHS band program | Fran Shelton | performing arts
Hendersonville Life
'O, Holy Night' portrays nativity story through music
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Flat Rock Playhouse presents the traditional holiday show O Holy Night Dec. 12-22 at the Flat Rock Playhouse Downtown. Read Story »
Tags: Flat Rock Playhouse | downtown Hendersonville | performing arts | Flat Rock Playhouse Downtown
North Carolina Life
Top mountain flatpickers to perform
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Some of the top traditional musicians from the Blue Ridge Mountains over three generations will perform Saturday, Nov. 30, at 8 p.m. at the White Horse Black Mountain Music Hall in Black Mountain in a show that exhibits and teaches about "Guitar Styles of North Carolina." Read Story »
Henderson County News
TOP BRASS: Two Falcons picked for Orange Bowl
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Two students at West Henderson High School will be marching in a nationally known arena in January. Read Story »
Tags: West Henderson High School | performing arts | marching bands
Flat Rock Life
LIGHTNING REVIEW: 'Musketeers' is sword-fighting fun
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In the fading light of fall, a swash-buckling adventure livens up the stage at the Flat Rock Playhouse. Read Story »
Tags: Flat Rock Playhouse | Scott Treadway | Barbara Bradshaw | Lisa K. Bryant | performing arts | Lightning reviews | Ralph Redpath | Andrew Hampton Livingston
Hendersonville Life
LIGHTNING PHOTOS: 'Snow White' opens tonight
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Helen Byrd says people come to Hendersonville Elementary School's annual fall play expecting to see "a refrigerator box set and trash can costumes." Instead, they're stunned by the quality of the sound, lighting, costumes and most of all the actors on stage. Read Story »
Tags: theater | Henderson County Public Schools | Hendersonville Elementary School | performing arts | Helen Byrd
Hendersonville Life
LIGHTNING REVIEW: Race to the fee line to see 'Cats'
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Here is what I say about "Cats." Read Story »
Tags: Flat Rock Playhouse | Playhouse Downtown | Lisa K. Bryant | performing arts | Jennifer Jancuska
Hendersonville Life
'Getting paid to eat ice cream,' fiddler finds his passion
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A classical violinist who played for the Seattle Symphony and other ensembles, Jamie Laval had a secret life. Read Story »
Flat Rock Life
Viral video vaults vocalist to key singing role in 'Cats'
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Hannah Rose DeFlumeri, at 21 a two-year veteran of a national touring show, "The Rocky Horror Show" at Flat Rock Playhouse and New York club singing, owes her discovery to a YouTube video of her stunning performance in a high school play. Read Story »
Tags: Flat Rock Playhouse | Playhouse Downtown | performing arts
Hendersonville Life
HSO opener features famed Celtic fiddler
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The Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor Thomas Joiner, will present a concert entitled "A Celtic Celebration" on Saturday, Sept. 7, at 7:30 p.m. at the Blue Ridge Concert Hall at BRCC. Read Story »
Tags: Music | Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra | performing arts
Flat Rock Business
Summer musicals boost box office at Playhouse
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FLAT ROCK — Placed on deathwatch by critics a year ago, the Flat Rock Playhouse emerged from its pivotal 10-week run of big-stage musicals with strong ticket sales and momentum for the last third of the season, theater officials said. Read Story »
Tags: Flat Rock Playhouse | Vincent Marini | performing arts
Flat Rock Business
LIGHTNING REVIEW: 'Deathtrap' keeps audience guessing
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"Deathtrap" is tense from the start. Read Story »
Tags: Flat Rock Playhouse | performing arts | Lightning reviews
Hendersonville Life
'CATS' will surround audience in downtown show
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Flat Rock Playhouse is preparing to surround the theater audience with the action in CATS, the long-running Broadway musical based on T.S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" and featuring a musical score by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Read Story »
Tags: Flat Rock Playhouse | Playhouse Downtown | performing arts
North Carolina Life
Chimney Rock catching fire over Hunger Games sequel
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Ahead of the Nov. 22 release of the Hunger Games sequel Catching Fire, Chimney Rock State Park next month is showing the blockbuster first movie, The Hunger Games, on a 35-foot outdoor screen and offering other movie-themed activities. Read Story »
Tags: DuPont State Forest | Chimney Rock State Park | performing arts | Hunger Games
Henderson County News
Memories of Robroy: Playhouse founder set a high standard
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The elaborate production of "Les Miserables" on the main stage of the Flat Rock Playhouse is a long way from the summer stock that Alan Sader remembers from 50 years ago. Read Story »
Tags: Flat Rock Playhouse | History | performing arts | Robroy Farquhar | Alan Sader
Hendersonville Life
Carolina Concert Choir names new director
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The Carolina Concert Choir has hired a longtime college choir director as conductor and artistic director. Read Story »
Tags: Music | performing arts | Carolina Concert Choir
Flat Rock Life
YouTheatre kids taste the bigtime in 'Evita'
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YouTheatre kids from 8 to 18 are getting a taste of Broadway and contributing to the music and drama of Evita, the hit musical on stage through June 30 at the Flat Rock Playhouse. Read Story »
Tags: Flat Rock Playhouse | theater | YouTheatre | Margaret Butler | performing arts | Louise Cummins | Luke Umphlett
Henderson County News
A Hart for the theater: Playhouse finance chief watches budget
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Hillary Hart was the rare high school student who knew her heart and her limitations at the same time. Read Story »
Tags: Flat Rock Playhouse | theater | tourism | Vincent Marini | Hillary Hart | performing arts
Flat Rock Business
'Evita' opens at Flat Rock Playhouse
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A Broadway actress who has recently performed in a national tour of "Wicked" plays Eva Peron in the Flat Rock Playhouse production of "Evita" now playing on the Mainstage in Flat Rock. Read Story »
Tags: Flat Rock Playhouse | theater | performing arts
Hendersonville Business
Business group honors Shipman award winner
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At age 19 she produced and choreographed a show at the old Silver City Amusement Park in Chimney Rock. Read Story »
Tags: Pat Shepherd | performing arts | Hendersonville Merchants and Business Association | Don Holder | Sandra Walker | Sher Shepherd
Hendersonville Life
LIGHTNING REVIEW: 'Hairspray' a joyous ride at HHS
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"Hairspray," on stage at Hendersonville High School through Saturday night, matches the highest standard in the rich annals of HHS senior plays. Read Story »
Tags: theater | Hendersonville High School | Margaret Butler | performing arts
Henderson County News
SLIDESHOW: 'Hairspray' this weekend at HHS
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The Hendersonville High School Class of 2013 presents the musical comedy "Hairspray" this weekend in the traditional senior play. Read Story »
Tags: theater | arts | Music | Hendersonville High School | performing arts
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