We are a theatre company based in Asheville, North Carolina, committed to delivering meaningful stage productions
everywhere we go.

Fall 2023

It’s an interesting time to be engaged in making plays: one defined, increasingly, by a dangerous confluence of short-shortsightedness and over-confidence. A time when many of the social bonds of our lives – especially those that connected us to individuals and communities unlike ourselves – have been lost, and the decline only accelerated during the Covid-19 public-health crisis. It’s a time when individual rights to expression, to safety, to dignity, are being challenged and in many cases revoked. A time when power is expressly more preferable than fair play.

How do we counter that self-serving, fear-based narrative? I don’t think a night at the theater will solve any of these challenges on its own. But I do believe that the theatrical arts are a vital part of a shift back towards decency. No single step towards creating empathy for another human being – or inspiring curiosity about another human experience – is in itself enough, but nor it is ever wasted. Every step in the right direction is a step closer to the world we deserve to live in. At every rehearsal and every performance, we hope to take another one.

Walk with us. Talk with us. Step by step.

Willie Repoley, Artistic Director