The Giver: Director’s Notes

For every Mainstage Season show, we ask the director to share their thoughts, inspirations, or research about the show. We include these notes in the playbill, but why wait to read until you’re sitting in the theatre? It’s a great way to get insight about the show before you see it! Find tickets and more […]

Meet Our New Artistic Director!

You’re Invited! Join us on Sunday, May 1 at 5:30 pm to welcome Robert “Bob” Arleigh White, our new Artistic Director! He officially begins work the next day – and we want him to meet YOU! We’ll be outside in the Stargazer’s Garden (the brick patio on the Spruce St side of the theatre) and […]

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The Giver Opens Next on our Mainstage

Is it worth sacrificing life’s joys in exchange for a pain-free existence? One child begins to ask this question in The Giver, which opens next on our Mainstage. Adapted from Lois Lowry’s Newbery Award-winning novel, The Giver opens April 29, 2022 with performances Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30 pm and Sunday afternoons at 2:30 […]

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Guest Post From Elizabeth Huddleston, Board President

In recent weeks, ACT has had many questions and comments about our Covid policy at the theatre.  We thought it would be helpful to outline for our community what our Covid policy is and how it was created. First, the Board of Directors and the staff at ACT take safety very seriously, and that is […]

Local Playwright Maria C. Young Explores the Search for Identity in “Transition”

The tumultuous world of college athletics can strip one of all normalcy and self identity. Maria Young, a star basketball player at TC Roberson and Limestone College, knows this firsthand. After exploring the subject in her memoir, Lost in a Game, local author Maria C. Young adapted the book into her first play Transition. Young […]

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Robert “Bob” Arleigh White Joins ACT as Artistic Director

The Board of Directors of Asheville Community Theatre (ACT) is pleased to announce the selection of Robert “Bob” Arleigh White to serve as the next Artistic Director of the community theatre. This position will work collaboratively with ACT’s Managing Director to co-lead the organization. “We are thrilled to welcome Bob as our new Artistic Director,” […]

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Fight Girl Battle World: Director’s Notes

For every Mainstage show, we ask the director to share their thoughts, inspirations, or research about the show. We include these notes in the playbill, but why wait to read until you’re sitting in the theatre? It’s a great way to get insight about the show before you see it! Find tickets and more info […]

Ka-POW! Fight Girl Battle World Blasts Onto the Mainstage

Updated March 7, 2022 Aliens, androids, and space gerbils?!? Fight Girl Battle World, a sci-fi romp through a galaxy far, far away, opens next on the ACT Mainstage. Written by Qui Nguyen (Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon, She Kills Monsters) and originally produced by Vampire Cowboys, America’s best known geek theatre company, Fight Girl Battle World opens March […]

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Enter the Theatre-VERSE: Space Bloopers

In this issue, our hardworking stage manager SM-247 gets an extra moment to shine. Are there rimshot sound effects in space? Enter the Theatre-VERSE is created and written by Nicki LaRue.

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Cast List: The Giver

Thank you to everyone who came out to auditions for The Giver! We are excited to announce the cast list, and we are eager to welcome so many first time ACT participants as well as reconnect with folks we’ve worked with before! Father – Davey Mills Mother – Denise Lockett Lily – Paige Gorczynski Jonas […]

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