CHARLOTTE, NC – June is Pride month, a time dedicated to the celebration of the LGBTQ+ community while recognizing its activist roots, particularly in the Stonewall Uprising of 1969. In the midst of ever-present struggles for...
Read MoreCaroline Calouche & Co.’s Rouge is a Ménage à Trois of Dance, Aerial, and Cabaret
The Charlotte aerial and contemporary dance company Caroline Calouche & Co. is presenting their sixth edition of Rouge at the Booth Playhouse. The show is a Valentine’s-themed evening of aerial works, acrobatics, and...
Read MoreNow in its fourth year, Rouge began as a slightly naughty variety show featuring Caroline Calouche & Co.’s signature aerial choreography, with a naughty cabaret twist that meshed well with its October timeslot –...
Read MoreNow in its fourth year, Rouge began as a slightly naughty variety show featuring Caroline Calouche & Co.’s signature aerial choreography, with a naughty cabaret twist that meshed well with its October timeslot –...
Read MoreLiza Minnelli and the NCS Mark Grand Opening of New Performance Space
Wilmington’s new Humanities and Fine Arts Center, located on the downtown campus of Cape Fear Community College, opened with a glittering gala that included a concert headlined by Liza Minnelli and the North Carolina...
Read MoreGalvanized by Marisa Galvany
Just the name alone long inspired awe, for there was an air of mystery about it. Marisa Galvany. Had to be foreign, definitely, but of uncertain nationality. And when we learned she was from Paterson, New Jersey, and was...
Read MoreEllen Ciompi Presents Valentine’s Cabaret
For the seventh year in a row, cabaret singer and local celebrity Ellen Ciompi provided a “date night” with her Valentine’s Cabaret, this year themed around her hometown and first love, New York City. Her...
Read MoreCalouche’s Reshuffled Rouge Delights Her Company’s Fans
Like an old-fashioned TV variety show or – to borrow Caroline Calouche & Co.’s preferred analogy – a cabaret, Rouge is intended to intrigue and surprise you with new and unexpected spectacles. The company...
Read MoreOSTheatre’s Livin’ out Loud Falls Short of Its Potential
OSTheatre’s Livin’ out Loud, a self-titled “CabarGay,” is proof that North Carolina is home to a surplus of undiscovered talent! However, this original, gay-themed musical — tackling a number...
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An Afternoon of Pleasures with Ellen Ciompi and Company
An afternoon of pleasures, presented by the Mallarmé Chamber Players, began with Kurt...
Read MoreGleeking Out at Showstoppers: A Lesson in Show Tunes
Cabaret is a different kind of theatre. It can be comical or melancholy, sultry or seedy, but it’s always engaged. Imposed by the size and setup of the venue – bar, tavern, hole-in-the wall – a cabaret thrives...
Read MoreEllen Ciompi’s Cabaret Show Weaves a Magical and Marvelous Evening
The crowd may have been small, but the event space at Beauty and the Bull was full and alive with delightful music presented in the cabaret mode by the experienced and accomplished Ellen Ciompi and her superb keyboardist Glenn...
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