About the Community Tour
The NC Stage Community is dedicated to performing dynamic, free performances for audiences in homeless shelters, correctional facilities, community centers, senior centers, and other locations throughout Western North Carolina. For schools, the Community Tour offers student workshops with teaching artists from the Ensemble.
The Community Tour also includes a series of ticketed performances for audiences at NC Stage. Performances at NC Stage are staged in an intimate setting with all the lights on so audiences may enjoy the performance as it is experienced at each tour location.
Auditions are now open for the 2025 Community Tour! Click here for details.
Community Partners & Schools
Since 2018, the Community Tour has performed for over 2,000 people in partnership with:
Avery-Mitchell Correctional Institute | Mitchell County Senior Center
Haywood Street Congregation | Transylvania County Library
Transylvania County Arts Council | NC Veterans Home Black Mountain
Swannanoa Women’s Correctional Facility | MountainCare Adult Day Center
Hospitality House | Givens Gerber Park
Estes Elementary School | Cherokee Central Schools
Mountain Heritage High School | Rosman High School | Asheville High School
Past Productions
2023 Community Tour ANTIGONE
The Ensemble: Gabrielle Story, Dax Dupuy, Elias Newton, Glenna Grant, Clayton Arnold, and Jon Stockdale.
Directed by Patrice Foster with musical compositions by Dax Dupuy.
2019 Community Tour ROMEO & JULIET
The Ensemble: Rosemary Shemesh, Silas Waugh, Josephine Thomas, James Hendley, Tara Whitney Rison, Jefferson Haynes, Samantha LeBrocq, and Dwight Chiles.
Directed by NC Stage Artistic Director Charlie Flynn-McIver and featuring the music of Teso McDonald and Lea Anna Bright, with original compositions by Teso McDonald.
2018 Community Tour AS YOU LIKE IT
The Ensemble: Free, Jon Stockdale, Trinity Smith Keel, Adam Kampouris, Singer, Carin Metzger, Glenna Grant, and Julia Christgau.
Directed by NC Stage Artistic Director Charlie Flynn-McIver and featuring Shakespeare’s songs set to original compositions by Julia Christgau.
Inspiration
NC Stage is joining a growing community of theaters across the country inspired by the work of Ten Thousand Things, a theater company in Minneapolis founded by Michelle Hensley. Ten Thousand Things has been sharing extraordinary theater with non-traditional audiences for over 26 years.
“Because theater is richer when EVERYONE is in the audience.”
~ Michelle Hensley, Artistic Director & Founder, TEN THOUSAND THINGS
