Y'all Weekly's March Theater Roundup
Celebrate World Theatre Day (March 27) by taking in local productions from The Lotus Project, Davidson Community Players, Lee Street Theatre, Charlotte Conservatory Theatre, and Theatre Charlotte!
Mark your calendars: March 27, as always, is World Theatre Day. However, you don’t have to wait until then to enjoy what North Carolina’s local theatre scene has to offer. Below is our monthly roundup of what you can see on stage in the Piedmont.
Don’t see your show, or want to let us know about something happening in the Carolinas’ theater scene? Email me at jesse@yallweekly.com.
Sacred Spaces: Plays About the History Beneath Us
At Davidson Community Players
Davidson Community Players continues their two part series Sacred Spaces with their final weekend of The Minutes (March 6-9) and the world premiere production of Charlotte original A Small and Humble Erasure (March 20-30).
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?
And next, Charlotte playwright Stephanie Gardner digs deep into Queen City history with A Small and Humble Erasure, exploring a pivotal moment in which the powers-that-be drove marginalized theater makers to found a venue atop an enslaved people’s burial ground. Spanning generations in a playful style, Gardner’s artistic rendering begs us all to consider what is sacrificed in the ever-problematic quest for space.
The Lotus Project’s Spring Awakening
March 7 - 9 at the Arts Factory at West End Studios
This weekend only, the Lotus Project, founded locally by J Stage Community Theatre veterans Susan Cherin and Kayla Piscatelli, will perform Spring Awakening, a 2006 musical based on the play of the same name from 1891. With rock-infused numbers, this play tells a raw and sincere story of adolescent self-discovery and youth revolt in a world controlled by grown-ups.
The play features Planned Parenthood South Atlantic’s Teen Connections as a community partner
Content warning from the theater: This show has extremely mature adult content and themes including, but not limited to, references to/depictions of sex, masturbation, sexual violence, domestic violence and abuse, suicide, and abortion. It also includes a significant amount mature language. Recommended for ages 15+.
Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution
March 7 - 22 at Lee St. Theatre
In another classic mystery from Agatha Christie, defense attorney Sir Wilfrid Robarts must contend with a murder trial’s unexpected twists when his client’s wife chooses to testify against him. Lee St. Theatre always delivers a fun and exciting production, especially when mystery is afoot.
Charlotte Conservatory Theatre presents Continuity
March 20 - 30 at Mint Museum Randolph
Charlotte Conservatory Theatre, who ran a gut-busting production of POTUS last year, are back again with Continuity, a dark but hilarious “play in six takes.” It’s magic hour in the New Mexico desert as an exhausted film crew races against the setting sun to shoot their blockbuster (but artsy) action movie, which takes place on an arctic (Styrofoam) ice floe, and features an ecoterrorist plotting a bombing mission to save all of humankind (supposedly). As the clock ticks and the desert sun beats down on the not-so-frozen landscape, personalities clash, artistic vision meets Hollywood demands, and the gap between fiction and science grows wider than ever.
Violet
March 28 - April 13 at Theatre Charlotte
Violet is the moving story of a courageous young woman facially disfigured in a childhood accident. Violet dreams of a miraculous transformation through the power of faith. In hopes that a televangelist can heal her, she hops a Greyhound bus from her sleepy North Carolina town to Oklahoma and starts the journey of a lifetime. “A terrific, heart-stirring musical with tangy flavors of country, gospel, blues and honky-tonk rock.” (NYTimes).
Theatre Charlotte Announces 98th Season
Theatre Charlotte’s 2025-2026 season will feature seven productions, including award-winning musicals, heartwarming stories, and gripping thrillers.
“A cornerstone in our vibrant city, this historic organization has been creating local theatre for nearly a century,” Theatre Charlotte Director of Development and Marketing Jackie Timmons wrote in a press release. “Theatre Charlotte provides opportunities for everyone to participate in theatre, from the audience, the stage, or behind the scenes. Season 98, like every season, features professional directors and designers local to Charlotte who will bring each of these unique productions to life.”
Running September 2025 through May 2026, the lineup includes:
Little Shop of Horrors
Murder on the Orient Express
A Christmas Carol – Celebrating its 19th year as Theatre Charlotte’s holiday tradition with a few new surprises!
Over the River and Through the Woods
The Flick – Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
God of Carnage
The Color Purple
The official dates and directors will be announced in the spring. Season ticket sales for Theatre Charlotte open in May, and individual tickets go on sale August 1st.
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