The President’s Corner:

Thoughts on North Carolina’s history and NCHT events by President and founder Bill Hand

It’s been a crazy week so let’s keep it short, okay? Let’s talk about Tom Dooley. He had nothing to do with our summer show, but one of...

This week let’s look at one of the dominant characters in our upcoming summer musical, “Bushwhackers” – Zebulon Vance. It’s his birthday...

It is with great sorrow that we must announce the death of Sue Baldwin. Wow. The sentence seems almost tacky. “great sorrow.” I read...

It isn’t easy telling lies and being truthful at the same time. But when you turn a true story into a book or a movie or a play, that’s...

Staging the Blalocks I should write a book about the Blalocks, the protagonists in our next play, “Bushwhackers.” Maybe I will. But I...

Having wrapped up “The Importance of Being Earnest,” we are moving on to produce and direct our July offering, the true story of a...

Playwrights? You’ve probably heard of Neil Simon, the Big Mac of playwrights (to paraphrase novelist Stephen King’s description of...

As a young company NCHT keeps a modest itinerary. Our official season, last year, included our musical “Flight” and the classic comedy...

Theater is church. Well, it used to be, at least. We look at theater today and, at least in many aspects, we see anything but the idea of...

How do you put a history on stage? How do you tell a story and not just present a pamphlet or a bare-bones article with a costume and...

Some years ago, I read a short story by this name by my fellow Hoosier, Kurt Vonnegut. You can find it in his collection, “Welcome to the...

Auditions! We’re holding them this Saturday and Sunday (the 10th and 11th) and they’re scary, scary, scary things. We’re all scared when...

Of course, you’re wondering about the history behind Groundhog Day, and we’re happy to oblige. Across the country various rodent...

“’Tis just a flesh wound!” “I’m not dead yet!” “T’was brillig and the slithey toves did gyre and gimble…” There’s something unique about...

In July 2024 NCHT will be sharing a look at the Civil War on its most personal level with its historical musical, “Bushwhackers.” The...