Cast List for The Producers

  Asheville Community Theatre is proud to announce  the cast for Mel Brooks’ Award Winning Musical The Producers! THE PRODUCERS Max Bialystock ……………………….. Zacary Landolt Leo Bloom …………………………. Matthew Harper* Ulla Svaden-Svanson …………………….. Alex Likens Franz Liebkind ……………………………… Jeff Stone* Carmen Ghia …………………………. Shane Clemmer Roger De Bris ……………………………….. Corey Link Hold Me – Touch […]

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Places Please: Mermaids & Theatre Magic

The end of act two, scene eight of Peter and the Starcatcher could be the most spectacular moment in the show–a massive crack of thunder, flashes of lightning, cast members scattering in all directions off stage and a giant mermaid tail swimming rapidly (yet effortlessly) into the vom (i.e. an exit/entrance passageway). Pure theatre magic. […]

Places, Please: The Stage Manager Life

Keep Calm and Carry On. The phrase is plastered on t-shirts, pillows and coffee mugs, but it’s tattooed onto the heart of every stage manager—keep calm and keep things going. I’ve heard it said that a stage manager, in addition to being a manager, is a friend, a parent, a therapist, a paramedic, a mediator, […]

Announcing our 72nd Season

Though we’re still just halfway through our current season, we have selected a slate of shows for 2017-18, our 72nd season. Audition dates will be announced in March. Subscriptions will go on sale in April, and single tickets will go on sale later in the year. Our 2017-18 Season will begin in December 2017, as our […]

Demolition Derby

Photo credit: Jill Summers Demolition Derby is the renovation catchphrase these days. With demolition in full swing—and moving FAST—it’s hard to believe that just a few weeks ago we were putting on a show. Much has changed since then. If you’ve been following our Facebook or Instagram pages, you’ve probably seen pictures of the Green […]

Let’s Do This

Photo credit: Anthony Guidone All hands on deck, hard hats on, tool belts fastened. Let’s do this! Over the past week, Asheville Community Theatre’s Mainstage took a final curtain call, and while this wasn’t the closing performance of the theatre, it was the closing of a chapter – the last 70 years. For 70 years, […]

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Renovation ACT

Since 1946, Asheville Community Theatre has been producing dramas, comedies, musicals and more. For years, we were a vagabond company, producing shows in auditoriums all over the city. But in 1972, the curtain opened for our first show in our permanent home (it was Camelot – and we still have cast members from that show […]