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As COVID numbers drop and protocols loosen, theater and concert venue policies are all over the map. Some require vaccinations and masks. Others require neither. Some are strict enforcers of whatever policies they put in place, others not so much.
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A lot of artists will tell you an inner voice propels them to create. The Asheville playwright Jamie Knox says, for her, it’s often a voice that isn’t her…
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Tom Godleski’s newest play sounds far different than when he first brought it to Asheville’s Magnetic Theatre. “He presented me with a very rough script.…
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Oxalis is a weed-like ground cover that can quickly take over a lawn. Travis Lowe saw “Oxalis” as an apt metaphor and appropriate title for his latest…
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The loading dock behind the former post office in downtown Sylva was never intended as a theatrical stage. But beyond the location, Ashlee Wasmund has…
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Asheville’s River Arts District commemorated Juneteenth through the first weekend of Black art and culture called GrindFest. Here's an audio glimpse from…
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Here’s how tight Nikki Lee’s family is: She convinced her mother and three adult children to move last fall from a lifetime in Cincinnati to the unknown…
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The people who call themselves Nye and Terran met two years ago at a goth picnic in Asheville’s Riverside Cemetery.“We decided we should have a meeting to…
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Every college student has experienced academic and social turmoil over the past year. Few have had the encouragement, as Tristan Rice has, to put it into…
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Virtual theater is commonplace during the pandemic—that is, if there’s any theater at all, people are watching it streamed on screen.Mike and Brenda Lilly…