As seen in The Laurel of Asheville, March 2024 issue. On Wednesday, March 27, at 7 p.m., the Wortham Center for the Performing Arts presents 360 ALLSTARS, performing at the Diana Wortham Theatre. This exhilarating, physical performance features an international cast of athletes and artists engaging in feats like BMX biking, dancing, beatboxing, acrobatics and […]
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Video: C. Brian Williams NEA National Heritage Fellow tribute — Step Afrika!
This tribute to Step Afrika!‘s Executive Producer and Founder C. Brian Williams was released in November 2022 as part of “Roots of American Culture: A Cross Country Visit with Living Treasures of the Folk and Traditional Arts,” a collaborative piece produced by the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Council for the Traditional […]
Program for Pilobolus presents re:CREATION
Pilobolus presents re:CREATION, March 22 & 23, 2024 at Wortham Center for the Performing Arts.
Laughing at life’s absurdities: An interview with Cathy Ladman
On a Thursday morning in February, stand-up comedian Cathy Ladman was scrolling through the Notes app on her phone, stopping to read aloud her most nonsensical self-reminders — comically brief and vague, joke-adjacent, but with long-forgotten punchlines. “I mean, here I just wrote a title: ‘Forgetting Things.’ That’s it. That’s all I wrote. Ridiculous!” she […]
Mark and Maggie O’Connor — Live from the Old Steeple
Live from the Old Steeple presentsMark and Maggie O’ConnorAired: 10/21/23 | Rating: NR Mark O’Connor has been a musical sensation ever since he became the youngest person to win the Grand Master Fiddler Championships at age 13. Nearly 50 years later, he’s a six-time winner of the Country Music Association Musician of the Year award, […]
Grammy Award winners Mark and Maggie O’Connor play Diana Wortham Theatre
The soul-filling, award-winning music of Mark and Maggie O’Connor comes to downtown Asheville, Friday, March 8, at 8 p.m. The duo kick off their Spring tour at the Wortham Center in an evening featuring new vocal songs from their recently released album project, Life After Life, as well stunning violin duos and Mark’s high-octane acoustic […]
