Laurel Magazine

HCP presents Lifespan of a Fact at Highlands PAC
2024-08-24 19:30, 2024-08-25 14:00, 2024-08-29 19:30, 2024-08-30 19:30, 2024-08-31 19:30, 2024-09-01 14:00 (America/New_York) | Highlands PAC, 507 Chestnut Street, Highlands, NC, 28741, United States
Highlands Cashiers Players presents Lifespan of a Fact
A determined young fact checker is about to stir up trouble. The demanding editor has given him a big assignment: apply his skill to a groundbreaking piece by the unorthodox author. Together, they take on the high-stakes world of publishing in this new comedy of conflict. The ultimate showdown between fact and fiction is about to begin—with undeniably delicious consequences

Cinema PAC | Coup! at Highlands PAC
2024-09-03 14:00, 2024-09-04 14:00
A mysterious grifter appears on an isolated seaside estate claiming to be a wealthy family’s new chef. When a plague descends on the island, the mischievous cook rouses his fellow staff to rebel and take over the mansion.

End of the Line at Highlands PAC
2024-09-07 19:30
End of the Line is the premiere Allman Brothers tribute band. Having carved up the southeast with sold out shows in Georgia & Tennessee, End of the Line is making a name for themselves with a sound as classic & heavy as the original brothers themselves.
With endorsements from the official Allman Brothers museum The Big House, End of the Line carries on the legacy of the Allman Brothers with poise & power.

PAC Movies | My Penguin Friend at Highlands PAC
2024-09-10 14:00
Based on an emotional true story that riveted the world and filmed on the spectacular coasts of Brazil and Argentina,

My Penguin Friend is a tale that traverses the magic of the ocean, the beauty of nature, and the transformative power of love.

GAOS | Picasso: A Rebel In Paris at Highlands PAC
2024-09-26 17:00
Fifty years after his passing, we embark on a journey through Pablo Picasso’s Paris, amidst sunshine and shadow, convictions and contradictions, from a young, impoverished foreigner to one of the most important icons of the 20th-century.
The film moves continuously in and out of the Musée Picasso in Paris which has the largest existing collection dedicated to the painter with 6,000 masterpieces and 200,000 pieces of archive material, and follows Picasso through the Parisian neighborhoods where he lived, from the early days in ateliers with no heating to the large middle-class apartments where his success began: a physical and intellectual journey to gain a deeper understanding of his work and spirit.

Darren Nicholson Band at Highlands PAC
2024-09-28 19:30
A GRAMMY nominee and winner of 13 International Bluegrass Music Association awards, Darren Nicholson has taken his own brand of mountain music around the world. A regular for years on the Grand Ole Opry out of Nashville Tennessee, and a founding member of acclaimed bluegrass group Balsam Range, Darren now spends his time recording, writing new songs, and performing.
You can catch Darren almost every week sharing the music he loves somewhere, traveling both nationally and internationally – as a solo artist, with his own Darren Nicholson Band, or in collaboration with other musicians.

NTL | Prima Facie at Highlands PAC
2024-10-03 17:00
The National Theatre’s biggest ever NT Live title returns to cinemas this September. Featuring an award-winning performance by Jodie Comer, this one-woman play has been a West-End and Broadway hit, and its reputation has continued to grow since breaking records in UK cinemas in 2022.

MET | Les Contes D'Hoffmann at Highlands PAC
2024-10-05 13:00
Offenbach’s fantastical opera kicks off the Metropolitan Opera’s season of Live in HD performance transmissions, starring French tenor Benjamin Bernheim in the title role of the tormented poet. Joining Bernheim is American soprano Erin Morley as Olympia, South African soprano Pretty Yende as Antonia, and French mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine as Giulietta to complete Hoffmann’s trio of lovers. Marco Armiliato conducts Bartlett Sher’s evocative production, which also features American bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as the Four Villains and Russian mezzo-soprano Vasilisa Berzhanskaya in her company debut as Nicklausse.

Mountain Theatre Company | The Burnt Part Boys at Highlands PAC
2024-10-11 19:30, 2024-10-12 15:00, 2024-10-12 19:30, 2024-10-13 15:00, 2024-10-16 15:00, 2024-10-17 15:00, 2024-10-17 19:30, 2024-10-18 15:00 and 7 more dates
Siblings from a mining town learn the power of self-reliance in this Appalachian, bluegrass-inspired journey.
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This musical, which took New York audiences and critics by storm in 2010, is one of the most imaginative and heart-felt original musicals in recent memory. Set in an Appalachian mining town that was the scene of a tragic disaster many years before, Pete is fighting to claim his past. His older brother Jake is hoping to forge a future. With their friends, they each embark on a life-altering journey to the mine that took their father’s life. By turns magical, inspiring, raucous, and playful – the story is set to a driving and haunting mid-century bluegrass-inspired score. The Burnt Part Boys is an empowering and thrilling theatrical experience for all ages. This heartwarming adventure will capture your heart as it finds the peaks of light and valleys of darkness within us all.

MET: Grounded at Highlands PAC
2024-10-19 13:00
Jeanine Tesori / Libretto by George Brant Grounded Tony Award–winning composer Jeanine Tesori’s powerful new opera Grounded premieres at the Metropolitan Opera, wrestling with often-overlooked issues created by 21st-century warmaking: the ethical conflicts created by the use of modern military technology and the psychological and emotional toll supposedly safe remote technology takes on our servicepersons.
Canadian mezzosoprano Emily D’Angelo stars as the hot-shot fighter pilot whose unplanned pregnancy takes her out of the cockpit and lands her in Las Vegas, operating a Reaper drone halfway around the world. American tenor Ben Bliss costars as the Wyoming rancher Eric in a production by Michael Mayer that brings this story to life in a high-tech staging which presents a variety of perspectives on the action.
Met Music Director Yannick Ne´zet-Se´guin takes the podium to conduct Tesori’s kaleidoscopic opera.
