Attic Salt Theatre Company is WNC's one-stop drama shop. Superior local theater * Theater for children * Acting classes
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What's Happening Now
Join Us Online for the Winners of The Rising Artists Playwriting Competition
The winners of The Rising Artists Playwriting Competition are presented to your as filmed readings! These amazing premieres are available to everyone for only 2 weeks each.
Tickets are sold per household - $20 per show or get all three shows for $55
Tickets are sold per household - $20 per show or get all three shows for $55
Two outspoken teenaged girls make their own rules at their stodgy prep school. However, for Maggie (Mag) and Peggy (Pie), some of the toughest lessons are learned outside the classroom. This beautiful play will have you both longing for and dreading the days of your own youth.
Catherine Rush's MagPie will be available for ticketed viewing from Friday, February 5th at 6pm through Sunday, February 21st at Midnight
Catherine Rush's MagPie will be available for ticketed viewing from Friday, February 5th at 6pm through Sunday, February 21st at Midnight
A young Jewish lawyer is asked to represent a German-American WWII radio propagandist, imprisoned for treason. The only trouble is that she doesn't want to leave. This intriguing play hits close to home, since history does, in fact, tend to repeat itself. Don't miss it.
Jerry Slaff's suspenseful play Lies will be available for ticketed viewing from Friday, February 12th at 6pm through Sunday, February 28th at Midnight
Jerry Slaff's suspenseful play Lies will be available for ticketed viewing from Friday, February 12th at 6pm through Sunday, February 28th at Midnight
Travel back through time to see Charlotte Bronte at the beginning of her career, and forward again to witness her biographer's attempt to save her scandalous posthumous reputation. Charlotte's Letters is a vivid play about love, friendship, and the making of art and identity.
Charlotte's Letters, by Jennifer O'Grady will be available for ticketed viewing from Friday, February 19th at 6pm to Sunday, March 7th at Midnight
Charlotte's Letters, by Jennifer O'Grady will be available for ticketed viewing from Friday, February 19th at 6pm to Sunday, March 7th at Midnight
Black Lives Matter
We at Attic Salt Theatre Company stand by the principles of and in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. As an organization, we value the talents and knowledge base of the POC actors, teachers and administrators that we’ve called colleagues and friends over the past two decades. We’re proud the decades of work we’ve done teaching students in communities of color, and the relationships we developed with The Partnership for Inner-City Schools over our many years working in New York City.
As we move forward in our current hometown of Asheville, a city still struggling with it’s racial identity and problems, we will continue to evaluate our programs and practices to ensure we our doing our best to be a thoughtful and equitable member of the Asheville theater community. We will continue to find ways to make the arts accessible to audiences, artists and educators of all colors, classes and gender identities.
As we move forward in our current hometown of Asheville, a city still struggling with it’s racial identity and problems, we will continue to evaluate our programs and practices to ensure we our doing our best to be a thoughtful and equitable member of the Asheville theater community. We will continue to find ways to make the arts accessible to audiences, artists and educators of all colors, classes and gender identities.
Some Happy News!
We have the winners of The Rising Artists Playwriting Competition!
Our staged readings of these plays were scheduled for May, so likely they will be postponed. Stay tuned for those details. Meanwhile, we wanted to celebrate the wonderful winning plays and finalists! Congratulations, everyone!
Our staged readings of these plays were scheduled for May, so likely they will be postponed. Stay tuned for those details. Meanwhile, we wanted to celebrate the wonderful winning plays and finalists! Congratulations, everyone!
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The Winners
MagPie by Catherine Rush Lies by Jerry Slaff Charlotte's Letters by Jennifer O'Grady |
The Finalists
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Marilyn, Mom & Me by Luke Yankee
Beauty by Gary L. Blackwood A Ghost of a Chance by Kimberly Shimer The Couple Next Door by Donna Hoke Ten And A Half by Marie Hanhnhon Nguyen Shrinks by Isadora Fox No, Love Me by Mattie Bayne |
JD Salinger in East Berlin by Chalmers
Life Is Mostly Straws by Richard Manley The Tiger Play by Anne Phelan Priceless by Barbara McDonald Whispering Of The Gods by Paul Coleman The Legacy by Adam Siegel |
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Thank you to the North Carolina Arts Council and the AshevilleArts Council for granting us funds to bring our residency programs to local elementary and middle schools during the 2019-2020 school year!
You Can Support the Work We Do
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We run on tax-deductible donations from people like you! Thank you for your support that us to continue to bring theater to WNC.
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Attic Salt Theatre Company
2002 Riverside Dr. Suite 42-O Asheville, NC 28804 |
(828)
708-SHOW (7469) |
Executive Director
Marci Bernstein marci@atticsalt.org Artistic Director
Jeff Catanese jeff@atticsalt.org |