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Queen City Comedy Experience returns to Charlotte after a two-year hiatus
By Beth Mack July 26, 2022 Charlotte’s largest annual comedy event, Queen City Comedy Experience (QCCE), is returning this August after a two-year hiatus with its largest lineup yet. Boasting a schedule of over 70 events across 14 diverse Charlotte venues, the month-long QCCE is...
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Watch the official trailer for ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’
By CLTure News July 23, 2022 (updated 10/3) The first trailer for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever debuted at San Diego Comic-Con 2022 on July 23. Director Ryan Coogler revealed a two-minute-plus teaser that kicks off with Nakia (Lupia Nyong’o) looking off into the ocean to a...
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For over three decades, Blue Man Group have remained in the pop culture zeitgeist
By Cameron Lee July 8, 2022 What originally started as a performance art funeral procession for the ‘80s, Blue Man Group has become a worldwide phenomenon. On that day of their first public performance in Central Park in 1988, Blue Man Group founders Chris Wink,...
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‘We Are The Thousand’ documents the power of music and shared love of the Foo Fighters
By Douglas Davidson June 3, 2022 July 30, 2015: With little more than hope and a prayer, Fabio Zaffagnini uploaded a seven-and-a-half-minute video to YouTube in hopes of getting the attention of rock band Foo Fighters. Zaffagnini had gathered together 1,000 musicians from across Italy...
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CLTure and Jack the Radio present the HeroesCon 40th anniversary kick-off party at Super Abari
By CLTure May 24, 2022 CLTure and Jack the Radio have partnered with Charlotte comic book convention, HeroesCon, for its official 40th anniversary kick-off party on Thursday, June 23. The party will be held at the new Super Abari Game Bar in the Belmont neighborhood...
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Hip-hop, improv comedy, and live theater intersect with ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’
By Beth Mack April 21, 2022 Photo: Joan Marcus Before Lin-Manuel Miranda conceived his Broadway hip-hop smash hit Hamilton, he helped form a small hip-hop improv group in 2004 called Freestyle Love Supreme (FLS). Overshadowed by the success of the ideas and plays that Manuel...
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Featuring music by Sara Bareilles, ‘Waitress’ features a host of archetypes we’re all familiar with
By Jacqueline Parker April 18, 2022 Six years ago, Waitress debuted on Broadway and quickly became one of the smash hits of the season, and one of the longest-running Broadway performances of recent years. Written and composed by singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles (“Brave” and 2007’s “Love...
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‘Pretty Woman: The Musical’ adapts the timeless love story based on the beloved ’90s film
By Jacqueline Parker April 7. 2022 Pretty Woman: The Musical is the fourth of five Broadway musicals rounding out the Blumenthal Performing Arts’ Equitable Bravo Series season before it picks back up again in October. Adapted from the 1990 romantic comedy starring Julia Roberts and...
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2022-23 Blumenthal Performing Arts Broadway season preview
By Beth Mack March 20, 2022 Photo: Matthew Murphy Spring has arrived. And with it comes warmer weather, more daylight, and the buzz of new event announcements. One that has been highly anticipated is the 2022-23 Blumenthal Performing Arts Broadway season. “We’re going all out...
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With a thrilling detective narrative ‘The Batman’ provides a truly fresh reimagining of the character
By Johnny Sobczak March 6, 2022 Rain pours down over a towering landscape of concrete, glass and steel. While trick-or-treaters and party-goers crowd the city streets, drug addicts rob convenience stores, vandals firebomb a bank, and gang members stalk the innocent through what might as...
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