There's Still Time to Catch a Play Tonight!
There's more than just soccer happening in Charlotte this weekend - multiple plays have shows tonight, including the last one for The Wild Party at the Booth Playhouse.
Charlotte’s arts scene is roaring into March with a lot of options for folks looking for a last minute date night. We even have some discount codes to share!
The Wild Party - Last Show
Booth Playhouse at Blumenthal Arts Center is hosting the last show for The Wild Party at 7:30 PM tonight. Use the code WILDPARTY to get 20% off tickets.
From the producers:
For fans of The Great Gatsby, Moulin Rouge, and Cabaret comes Michael John LaChiusa's Broadway sensation, The Wild Party. Nominated for seven Tony Awards in 2000, The Wild Party brings to life the 1928 poem written by Joseph Moncure March, set in the era of Manhattan decadence in the roaring twenties.
Queenie, a vaudeville showgirl, hosts the "wild" party with her vicious lover, Burrs. The guests are a vivid collection of the unruly and the undone, whose stories explore themes of racism, sexism, and the undying search for the American Dream. The jazz- and gin- soaked party rages to a mounting sense of threat as artifice and illusion are stripped away. When midnight debauchery leads to tragedy at dawn, the high-flying characters land with a sobering thud, reminding us that no party lasts forever.
Co-directed by Kacy Connon and Zachary Tarlton and music directed by Zachary Tarlton, The Wild Party features a cast of local Charlotte actors and the Queen City Concerts orchestra, brought to life on the Booth Playhouse stage at Blumenthal Arts.
The Minutes Continues its Run in Davidson
You have two weekends left to catch The Minutes by Davidson Community Players. The next show is tonight, Saturday March 1 at 7:30 PM; if you can’t make it tonight or to tomorrow’s sold out matinee, you can still buy tickets for Thursday March 6 - Sunday March 9.
Nominated for Best Play at the 2022 Tony Award, The Minutes is a dark comedy about the agony and the ecstasy of small-town government. When an upstart young councilman returns from a brief leave of absence to find minutes missing from the previous meeting, he senses something awful is being kept from him. What happened at the town council last week?
From the producers:
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of August: Osage County comes a dark comedy about the agony and ecstasy of small-town government. Good intentions collide with malicious inertia when an upstart young councilman returns from a brief leave of absence. Missing the minutes from the previous meeting, he senses the other council members—from shy civil servants to buffoonish politicians to senile elder statesmen—are hiding something awful about what transpired. In hilarious and unsettling fashion, The Minutes shows how fictional towns like Big Cherry and real towns like Davidson wrestle with uncomfortable task of recording their own histories.
Coming up Next Weekend
Theatre Charlotte's Annual Broadway Bash is next Saturday, March 8, 2025 at Lenny Boy Brewing. Local theatre doesn’t produce itself, and box office alone doesn’t sustain most local productions - so Theatre Charlotte is asking for your support.
From the producers:
Mix, mingle, and celebrate with friends while enjoying an exciting new location, food, drinks, entertainment and fantastic opportunities to support Theatre Charlotte.
This year’s event will begin with live music, a cocktail hour and our silent auction in the Taproom at Lenny Boy Brewery followed by dinner from Best Impressions Catering. After dinner, enjoy performances from some of your favorite Theatre Charlotte performers and learn a little more about our new program, The Penguin Project. The magical evening will finish with a dance party and plenty of music!
Theatre Charlotte’s next production, Violet, starts March 28.