Charlotte has Broadway tours, ballet, symphony concerts and museums. Tucked into the heart of Myers Park, it also has a theatre that has been telling stories for nearly 100 years.
Theatre Charlotte, at 501 Queens Road, opened its 99th season on September 11 with seven productions on the schedule; the season runs through May 30. Season packages and individual tickets are on sale.
Opening on an anniversary
The season opens with the Tony Award-winning musical Come From Away on September 11, exactly 25 years after the events that inspired it. The true story celebrates the kindness of a small Canadian town that welcomed nearly 7,000 stranded airline passengers after 9/11. It runs through October 4.
The rest of the season
Nick Dear's adaptation of Frankenstein (October 30 to November 15) retells Mary Shelley's classic through the creature's eyes, turning a familiar horror story into an exploration of belonging and responsibility.
A Christmas Carol (December 11 to 20) marks the 20th anniversary of the theatre's holiday tradition, returning to Charles Dickens' tale for the 20th year.
Neil Simon's Pulitzer Prize-winning Lost in Yonkers (January 22 to February 7) is a family comedy with big laughs and an emotional undertow.
Terminus (March 5 to 21) is a contemporary Southern Gothic drama in which memory, family and history intertwine.
John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation (April 9 to 18), inspired by a true story, is a witty, provocative look at race, privilege and the invisible threads that connect us.
Closing the season is BKLYN The Musical (May 14 to 30), a pop musical the theatre describes as blending the storytelling frame of Hadestown with the vocal fireworks of Dreamgirls.
A stage full of neighbors
Chances are you have crossed paths with someone who has stood on Theatre Charlotte's stage. Last season a Charlotte dentist traded his scrubs for the sadistic dentist's chair in Little Shop of Horrors. A retired fifth-grade teacher from Dilworth Elementary climbed aboard the Orient Express alongside one of his former students. And a Charlotte mom returned to the spotlight to play Celie in The Color Purple, the same role that earned her awards as a high school student 15 years earlier.
The people on that stage, the theatre says, are the ones who teach our children, care for our families and run local businesses.
This story appears in the September 2026 issue of Stroll Dilworth.