6 Best Performing Arts Venues in Asheville, North Carolina
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The Asheville area has about 40 theaters and theater companies.
Shindig on the Green
Pack a picnic and bring a folding chair or blanket for this free mountain-music concert. Shindig on the Green has been held for more than 50 years most Saturdays from late June through August. The shows, held in Pack Square Park in the heart of Asheville, run from around 7 to 10 pm. The same sponsoring organization, the Folk Heritage Committee, also puts on the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival, the oldest music festival of its type in the United States, dating to 1928. It is held "along about sundown" on three nights the first weekend in August.
Asheville Community Theatre
One of the oldest community theater groups in the country, Asheville Community Theatre stages amateur productions year-round in its own building.
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Diana Wortham Theatre
The intimate 500-seat Diana Wortham Theatre is home to more than 200 musical, dance, and theatrical events each year. A planned $3 million expansion is expected to add two more smaller performance spaces and upgrade the main theater. There's parking next to the theater or nearby, under the Aloft Hotel.
North Carolina Stage Company
From an alley off Walnut Street, this professional company puts on edgy, contemporary plays, although it also does audience favorites, such as a series of Jeeves comedies.
Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
The 2,400-seat Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, in the U.S. Cellular Center Asheville (formerly Asheville Civic Center), hosts larger events, including traveling Broadway shows and performances of the Asheville Symphony. In the U.S. Cellular Center is also the newly named ExploreAsheville.com Arena, which seats 7,200 and is used to stage concerts and other large events.