In a special Valentine’s Day event at the Wortham Center for the Performing Arts, dynamic father-and-son piano duo Ryan & Ryan combine their talents to create a dazzling blend of old and new — from Rachmaninoff to Gershwin, Ellington to Copland — blending classic and contemporary music into an enthralling concert experience. The concert takes […]
Aquila Theatre breathes new life into literary classics, “The Great Gatsby” and “Macbeth,” Feb. 4 & 5
For one weekend of stellar performances at the Wortham Center for the Performing Arts, Aquila Theatre brings two literary classics to life in downtown Asheville: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby on Friday, Feb. 4 and Shakespeare’s Macbeth on Saturday, Feb. 5. One of the Wortham Center’s fan-favorite companies, returning each season with two new […]
American Spiritual Ensemble highlights Black experience through music
American Spiritual Ensemble has thrilled audiences across the globe with a dynamic and soul-stirring repertoire that highlights the Black experience — and, now, it’s Asheville’s turn to be inspired. This critically acclaimed group, which comprises more than a dozen of the finest singers in the classical world, is set to perform live and in-person at […]
Different Strokes! Performing Arts Collective Collaborates with Wortham Center to Create BIPOC Apprenticeship Program
Collective announce a collaboration to establish the Apprenticeship Program for Emerging BIPOC Artists and Administrators, a paid apprenticeship program for high school and undergraduate college students interested in the administrative and technical aspects of theater.
Susan Werner brings variety to her concert at Wortham
Published in Asheville Scene, Oct. 22, 2021 With a catalogue that falls somewhere between folk, jazz and pop, with a pinch of country-Americana and world music thrown in, singer-songwriter Susan Werner stands poised and ready to please any crowd, no matter the musical taste. Though she’s known, first and foremost, as a fixture in folk, […]
World premiere at the Wortham: Pilobolus celebrates 50 years of innovation in dance
It began with a trio of unlikely artists: an English literature major with a knack for cross-country skiing, a competitive fencer majoring in philosophy science, and a pre-med student with a penchant for pole vaulting.
