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Asheville Theatre & Performing Arts

Also see: Events | Art Tours & Festivals | Live Music and Dancing | Civic Center | The Orange Peel | Fringe Festival
Asheville boasts a number of acting companies and theaters. The summer season is the busiest with plenty of performing arts to choose from!

Top Pick: Brevard Summer Music Festival: Choose from 80 public concerts, staged operas and musicals during a seven week period (mid June through early August) at their campus in Brevard, 32 miles from downtown. Read more about Brevard Music Center.
 
Flat Rock Playhouse Flat Rock Playhouse, Flat Rock
North Carolina's State Theatre in Flat Rock presents the best of Broadway musicals, comedy and drama from May through December. Located 29 miles south of Asheville near Hendersonville.
Read more about Flat Rock Playhouse and see what's playing next.
Asheville Broadway Shows

Altamont Theatre Company, Asheville
Altamont Theatre Company is downtown Asheville’s professional black-box musical theatre featuring world-class performers, up-close and personal, in its intimate 120-seat space. Each season, our theatre produces four professional Off-Broadway style musicals by popular writers in an intimate setting choosing quality shows with small casts. Located at 18 Church Street in downtown.
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diana wortham theatre Diana Wortham Theatre, Asheville
This 500-seat theatre is host to more than 150 performances annually by professional touring artists and local arts organizations. It is an intimate theatre with exceptional acoustics and sightlines. Located at 2 Pack Square in the heart of downtown Asheville.
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independent films asheville Fine Arts Theatre, Asheville
 Downtown's only cinema is dedicated to first-run and independent films. See fine films not necessarily shown in the larger commercial theaters in the wonderfully renovated older movie house. Located in downtown Asheville at 36 Biltmore.
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Asheville Bravo Concerts
From orchestras to opera to dance, see world-renowned musical, dance and opera programs from September through April in the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium at the Civic Center.
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Montford Park Players
North Carolina's Longest Running Shakespeare Festival presents free theatre in a park near downtown Asheville all summer long. Join them for their summer season under the stars and enjoy quality classic drama in a delightful outdoor setting with its entertaining and educational quality productions of Shakespeare and other great playwrights. The free performances are held at the Hazel Robinson Amphitheater in Montford starting at 7:30 p.m.
Read more about the Shakespeare Festival.
Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre (SART)
Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre is located at Mars Hill College, 18 miles north of downtown. This traditional summer-stock theatre's season runs mid-June to mid-August.
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More Theatre, Music and Dance near Asheville

Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance: Asheville’s own professional contemporary ballet company. Terpsicorps is currently a summer organization, hiring in critically acclaimed dancers from such well respected dance companies as Pittsburgh Ballet, Balletmet, American Repertory Ballet, and the Nashville Ballet.  
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Asheville Community Theatre: The longest running community theatre group in town with superb productions of comedies, dramas, and musicals in their theatre downtown.
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Asheville Symphony: Presenting their 43rd season of classical, pops and choral works in the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium downtown at the Civic Center.
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Blue Ridge Orchestra: Comprised of accomplished amateur, semi-professional and professional musicians who volunteer their time in an effort to make orchestral music more accessible to the community.
Go to their Web site.

Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre: This modern dance company presents a diverse repertory, both traditional and experimental. Their performances take place in the Diana Wortham Theatre or their dance studio downtown.
Go to their Web site.

Asheville Lyric Opera: This professional opera company brings several fantastic productions to town each year. Most are presented in the Diana Wortham Theatre.
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North Carolina Stage: Professional theatre in downtown Asheville.
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WNC Jazz Society: Monthly performances on Sundays of excellent straight-ahead jazz at Diana Wortham Theater.
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Haywood Arts Regional Theatre: HART’s main stage performances are in the James Auditorium, a 255-seat traditional proscenium space that operates April through November. In the winter, productions shift to the 75-seat Feichter Studio Theatre for a second season of more experimental work. Located in Waynesville.
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Moving Women: Dance performance ensemble that honors and invites the diverse perspectives offered by cross-genre collaboration.
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