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Feb 29, 2024 | 
open.substack.com | Jesse Boykin Kimmel
Davidson Community Players, a theater group just north of Charlotte, was founded by Queen City theater legend Connie Welsh in 1965 and has operated continuously since the early 80s. Kicking off its new season with the musical Fun Home, DCP opted to push the limits of their most intimate performance space, the Armour Street Theatre, and achieved excellent results. In its original Broadway run, Fun Home earned twelve Tony nominations and won five of them at the 2015 ceremony, including Best Musical.
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Feb 24, 2024 | 
salisburypost.com | Jesse Boykin Kimmel
Published 12:00 am Saturday, February 24, 2024 By Jesse Boykin KimmelY’all WeeklySALISBURY — The NFL season may have come to an end, but there is still a chance to experience a little more of the glory in Salisbury. “Lombardi,” now on stage at Lee Street theatre, tells the story of the legendary Green Bay Packers coach over the course of a critical week in the 1965 season.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
yallweekly.com | Dominique Morriseau |Jesse Boykin Kimmel
Editor’s Note: Y’all Weekly, in partnership with our sister publication Soccer Sheet, is hosting our first-ever live event at the Independent Picture House on February 20. The event will start with a reception (cash bar), include the first ever presentation of the Footy Awards, and end with a screening of “Gracie” staring Elizabeth Shue for all attendees.
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Oct 23, 2023 | 
open.substack.com | Jesse Boykin Kimmel
At Lee St Theatre in Salisbury, Jekyll& Hyde the Musicalis getting a classic treatment. Thanks to arresting lighting effects, a supporting ensemble as tight as a drum, and spectacular casting in the principal roles, Jekyll & Hyde is right on time for Halloween. This show wastes no time getting to the heart of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 tale of a scientist’s descent into irrevocable monstrosity.
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
yallweekly.com | Jesse Boykin Kimmel
Editor’s Note: Y’all Weekly is sharing the third piece in our “State of the Media” series so you can know more about the people behind the stories, and what they think about the local media landscape in Charlotte. Herbert L.
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Aug 8, 2023 | 
yallweekly.com | Jesse Boykin Kimmel
Editor’s Note: Even before the most recent layoff’s in North Carolina and Charlotte’s media landscape, we started planning our “State of the Media” series so you can know more about the people behind the stories, and what they think about the local media landscape in Charlotte. Genna Contino, who recently left the Charlotte Observer to pursue a graduate degree, spoke with Y’all Weekly about her experience in our media market. There’s a pattern behind pedestrian, cyclist crash data.
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Aug 3, 2023 | 
yallweekly.com | Jesse Boykin Kimmel
In 1834, a young woman arrived in New York City, traveling from her home in Canton City, China. Purportedly the first Chinese woman to set foot in the United States, history holds neither a certain record of her name, nor the precise circumstances of her departure.
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Jul 12, 2023 | 
yallweekly.com | Jesse Boykin Kimmel
Editor’s Note: Nearly all performances of Legally Blonde are sold out – only one performance still has seats available. Get tickets to the Sunday, July 16 matinee now. In its 2007 debut, “Legally Blonde: The Musical” was an exuberant, flashy fan-service vehicle which delighted audiences and divided critics. Replete with middling musical numbers and nods to Legally Blonde lore, you loved it because you got it or didn’t because you didn’t.
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Jul 7, 2023 | 
yallweekly.com | Jesse Boykin Kimmel
On July 1, the Mint Museum Uptown opened "The Vault” in its special exhibition galleries. Curated by artist Jessica Gaynelle Moss, the exhibit kicks off the Mint’s “Year of the Collector,” a series featuring the private collections of local Charlotteans. Both “The Vault” and the series as a whole are a continuation of the Mint’s mission to provide diverse cultural perspectives to Charlotte audiences.
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Jun 22, 2023 | 
yallweekly.com | Jesse Boykin Kimmel
Brian Kahn and Mike Collins’s rollicking, left-leaning-to-the-point-of-falling-over musical revue “Charlotte Squawks” is back for the eighteenth year at the Booth Playhouse in Uptown Charlotte. Dubbed “Charlotte Squawks 18: Barely Legal,” the musical parody show follows its traditional format, with send ups of news and culture through parodies of pop music and Broadway numbers.
