2008-2009 Mainstage

Christine Lavin: One Meat Ball

Laugh out loud with the entertainer The New York Times describes as “a comic observer of contemporary manners”. Christine’s talents center on her particular genius for making the ordinary in our lives so extraordinarily funny. In One Meat Ball she sings about the basics: men, women, life, love and food.

Doc Watson & David Holt: Hills of Home

Two priceless performances by superstars of traditional American folk music, legendary performer Doc Watson and Grammy-winning musician and folklorist David Holt.

Kathy Mattea: Moving Mountains Tour

One of country and traditional music’s top female vocalists. The beloved, Grammy-winning singer of such classics as "18 Wheels and A Dozen Roses," "Where've You Been," and many other hits is on a “Moving Mountains” tour with her acoustic band.

Late Nite Catechism

Late Nite Catechism is an hysterically funny play that takes the audience back to Catholic school: meatless Fridays, Latin Mass, and that good old ruler across the knuckles. The irrepressible Sister teaches class to a roomful of "students" (the audience).

Late Nite Catechism

Late Nite Catechism is an hysterically funny play that takes the audience back to Catholic school: meatless Fridays, Latin Mass, and that good old ruler across the knuckles. The irrepressible Sister teaches class to a roomful of "students" (the audience).

Late Nite Catechism

Late Nite Catechism is an hysterically funny play that takes the audience back to Catholic school: meatless Fridays, Latin Mass, and that good old ruler across the knuckles. The irrepressible Sister teaches class to a roomful of "students" (the audience).

Late Nite Catechism

Late Nite Catechism is an hysterically funny play that takes the audience back to Catholic school: meatless Fridays, Latin Mass, and that good old ruler across the knuckles. The irrepressible Sister teaches class to a roomful of "students" (the audience).

Late Nite Catechism

Late Nite Catechism is an hysterically funny play that takes the audience back to Catholic school: meatless Fridays, Latin Mass, and that good old ruler across the knuckles. The irrepressible Sister teaches class to a roomful of "students" (the audience).

Late Nite Catechism

Late Nite Catechism is an hysterically funny play that takes the audience back to Catholic school: meatless Fridays, Latin Mass, and that good old ruler across the knuckles. The irrepressible Sister teaches class to a roomful of "students" (the audience).

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet

With a solid foundation in classical ballet, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet makes a lasting impression with ten versatile, energetic dancers performing a sophisticated repertoire featuring some of the world’s foremost choreographers.

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet

With a solid foundation in classical ballet, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet makes a lasting impression with ten versatile, energetic dancers performing a sophisticated repertoire featuring some of the world’s foremost choreographers.

A Swannanoa Solstice

Gather with family and friends for an entertaining evening of wassail, joyful music and thoughtful seasonal reflection. Award-winning recording artists Al Petteway, Amy White, and Robin Bullock perform Celtic and Appalachian influenced holiday music.

Southern Fried Chicks Comedy Tour

Hear the hilarious take each of these very different women has on life, love, and the pursuit of happiness. The Southern Fried Chicks is where the "New South," the "Old South," and the "Deep South" come together for an evening of clever storytelling for every generation.

Galumpha

Combining stunning acrobatics, striking visual effects, physical comedy and inventive choreography, Galumpha brings to life a world of imagination, beauty, muscle and merriment.

Galumpha

Combining stunning acrobatics, striking visual effects, physical comedy and inventive choreography, Galumpha brings to life a world of imagination, beauty, muscle and merriment.

Aquila Theatre Company in The Iliad

A top-notch stage presentation of one of the greatest works in world literature. Described by The New York Times as “A performance of staggering power,” Aquila Theatre Company’s production of Homer’s Iliad is a “stunning, stirring, and memorable” theatrical experience.

Aquila Theatre Company in William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors

Grab a seat for this smash hit and let everything go as Shakespeare’s delightful comedy unfolds. Aquila’s imaginative and exuberant production of The Comedy of Errors returns in a sensational new revival, celebrating ten years since this show first toured with extended engagements to packed houses in New York, Boston, Los Angeles and Europe.

Eleone Dance Theatre

Explore the movement and rhythms of another genre-busting multi-ethnic Philadelphia-based dance company. From the same city that birthed Rennie Harris Puremovement, Philadanco, and Koresh Dance Company comes Eleone Dance Theatre: an exhilarating and soul-stirring dance company presenting works that are multicultural, intergenerational, socially and visually appealing to all audiences.

The Tannahill Weavers

This dynamic quintet plays Scottish traditional music at its best. Through airs, reels, jigs and ballads spanning the centuries, The Tannahill Weavers perform a potent mixture that delights young and old alike.

L.A. Theatre Works presents: The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial

Travel back in time to a sweltering, tension-filled courtroom to experience first-hand the dramatic “monkey” trial as it took place over eighty years ago. Starring a cast drawn from the high ranks of L.A. Theatre Works, the characters at the center of one of the great debates of American society come to life in this magnificent production from America’s foremost radio theater company.

L.A. Theatre Works presents: The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial

Travel back in time to a sweltering, tension-filled courtroom to experience first-hand the dramatic “monkey” trial as it took place over eighty years ago. Starring a cast drawn from the high ranks of L.A. Theatre Works, the characters at the center of one of the great debates of American society come to life in this magnificent production from America’s foremost radio theater company.

Kellylee Evans

A special Valentine’s Day treat. 2007’s Canadian Smooth Jazz Female Vocalist of the Year, Kellylee Evans is a unique voice in the urban-jazz world. With a smooth style that slides through jazz, soul, R & B, blues and world music rhythms, Kellylee's calming sound speaks volumes.

Susan Werner

With nine albums, an active touring career, and a string of accolades from the likes of The Washington Post, The Village Voice and The New Yorker, Susan Werner has become one of the defining artists of the folk music genre.

Pilobolus

Pilobolus (crystallinus) is a phototropic zygomycete - a sun-loving fungus that grows in barnyards and pastures. It’s a feisty thing - only 1/4 inch tall - that can throw its spores nearly eight feet. Right over a cow. It is also a highly unusual dance company, now in its 38th year of evolution.

Pilobolus

Pilobolus (crystallinus) is a phototropic zygomycete - a sun-loving fungus that grows in barnyards and pastures. It’s a feisty thing - only 1/4 inch tall - that can throw its spores nearly eight feet. Right over a cow. It is also a highly unusual dance company, now in its 38th year of evolution.

Green Fields of America

The Green Fields of America was first formed by Mick Moloney in 1978 after the Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folklife presented traditional Irish music and dance in the nation’s capital in a multi-cultural setting for the first time. Coming together as "Green Fields" in a special Asheville performance are Liz Carroll, John Doyle, Billy McComiskey, and Mick Moloney.

Luna Negra Dance Theater

Come ready to sizzle! Devoted to the creation and presentation of contemporary dance by Latino choreographers, Luna Negra Dance Theater is an amazing blend of contrasts: serious and funny, passionate and serene, adventurous and subtle.

Luna Negra Dance Theater

Come ready to sizzle! Devoted to the creation and presentation of contemporary dance by Latino choreographers, Luna Negra Dance Theater is an amazing blend of contrasts: serious and funny, passionate and serene, adventurous and subtle.

Dixie's Tupperware Party

Dixie, the fast-talking Tupperware Lady, has packed up her catalogues, left her children in Alabama, and is making her way across the country in this hilarious, interactive show. Join Dixie as she throws a good ol’ fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which are for sale.

Dixie's Tupperware Party

Dixie, the fast-talking Tupperware Lady, has packed up her catalogues, left her children in Alabama, and is making her way across the country in this hilarious, interactive show. Join Dixie as she throws a good ol’ fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which are for sale.

Dixie's Tupperware Party

Dixie, the fast-talking Tupperware Lady, has packed up her catalogues, left her children in Alabama, and is making her way across the country in this hilarious, interactive show. Join Dixie as she throws a good ol’ fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which are for sale.

Dixie's Tupperware Party

Dixie, the fast-talking Tupperware Lady, has packed up her catalogues, left her children in Alabama, and is making her way across the country in this hilarious, interactive show. Join Dixie as she throws a good ol’ fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which are for sale.

Dixie's Tupperware Party

Dixie, the fast-talking Tupperware Lady, has packed up her catalogues, left her children in Alabama, and is making her way across the country in this hilarious, interactive show. Join Dixie as she throws a good ol’ fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which are for sale.

Dixie's Tupperware Party

Dixie, the fast-talking Tupperware Lady, has packed up her catalogues, left her children in Alabama, and is making her way across the country in this hilarious, interactive show. Join Dixie as she throws a good ol’ fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware, all of which are for sale.

My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish, and I'm in Therapy

Twice the holiday! Twice the hollering! Twice the guilt! One part lasagna, one part kreplach and two parts Prozac, My Mother’s Italian, My Father's Jewish, and I'm in Therapy stars its author, Steve Solomon, who combines comic voices, sound effects and astounding characterizations to personify the wacky side of the human condition through more than thirty characters.

My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish, and I'm in Therapy

Twice the holiday! Twice the hollering! Twice the guilt! One part lasagna, one part kreplach and two parts Prozac, My Mother’s Italian, My Father's Jewish, and I'm in Therapy stars its author, Steve Solomon, who combines comic voices, sound effects and astounding characterizations to personify the wacky side of the human condition through more than thirty characters.

My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish, and I'm in Therapy

Twice the holiday! Twice the hollering! Twice the guilt! One part lasagna, one part kreplach and two parts Prozac, My Mother’s Italian, My Father's Jewish, and I'm in Therapy stars its author, Steve Solomon, who combines comic voices, sound effects and astounding characterizations to personify the wacky side of the human condition through more than thirty characters.

My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish, and I'm in Therapy

Twice the holiday! Twice the hollering! Twice the guilt! One part lasagna, one part kreplach and two parts Prozac, My Mother’s Italian, My Father's Jewish, and I'm in Therapy stars its author, Steve Solomon, who combines comic voices, sound effects and astounding characterizations to personify the wacky side of the human condition through more than thirty characters.

My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish, and I'm in Therapy

Twice the holiday! Twice the hollering! Twice the guilt! One part lasagna, one part kreplach and two parts Prozac, My Mother’s Italian, My Father's Jewish, and I'm in Therapy stars its author, Steve Solomon, who combines comic voices, sound effects and astounding characterizations to personify the wacky side of the human condition through more than thirty characters.

My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish, and I'm in Therapy

Twice the holiday! Twice the hollering! Twice the guilt! One part lasagna, one part kreplach and two parts Prozac, My Mother’s Italian, My Father's Jewish, and I'm in Therapy stars its author, Steve Solomon, who combines comic voices, sound effects and astounding characterizations to personify the wacky side of the human condition through more than thirty characters.

Téada

One of Irish music's leading exponents on the international world music stage, Téada is driven by a fascination with the timeless, expressive force of traditional tunes inherited from previous generations of musicians.

Max and Ruby

A delightful musical based on the top-rated Nickelodeon television show inspired by Rosemary Wells' bunny siblings, Max and Ruby!

And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank

A multimedia play reveals true life experiences in WWII.

And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank

A multimedia play reveals true life experiences in WWII.

And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank

A multimedia play reveals true life experiences in WWII.

Vote

A dramatic journey through history exploring freedom and the responsibility of voting.

The Iliad

Aquila Theatre Company presents an innovative production of this profound show as part of the Young Audience Series.

Eleone Dance Theatre

An innovative and soul-stirring multicultural dance company performs for students of all ages and grades.

The Emperor's New Clothes

Full of action, music, magic tricks and audience participation.

The Emperor's New Clothes

Full of action, music, magic tricks and audience participation.

The Emperor's New Clothes

Full of action, music, magic tricks and audience participation.

Luna Negra Dance Theater

A memorable and meaningful introduction to dance and Latino culture for all ages and grades.

Nate the Great

Theatreworks USA presents a new musical based on the classic children's book series.

GiveWay

Four incredibly talented sisters from the heart of Scotland deliver haunting airs and lively jigs, energetic blends of folk-jazz, spine-tingling vocals, exquisite harmonies and bold tunes. This performance replaces the Cara Dillon performance originally scheduled on this date.

Kate Clinton

A political humorist and lesbian comic, Clinton has appeared twice before at the DWT to sold-out houses both times.