Charlotte, NC –  Since  2003 Epic Arts has brought high-quality, unique and innovative  productions to  the Charlotte community.  Now we invite you to  join us for one final  extraordinary event.  Widely regarded at  Brian Friel’s masterpiece and  winner of the Evening Standard Award,  Laurence Olivier Award, New York Drama  Critics' Circle Award and the  Tony Award for Best Play, Dancing at Lughnasa  is an experience  not to be missed! This poignant and beautiful play, set in the  north  of Ireland in 1936, celebrates the lives of five sisters eking  out an  existence in a world that’s changing beneath their feet.    Told through the  memories of  the boy they raised together in their small cottage,  Friel’s lyrical story  teaches us that even in hardship, it is the  moments of joy and the people we  love that we remember best and  most. The Epic Arts  production of Dancing at  Lughnasa will feature Ellerie  Daube, Nathan Rouse, Sue  Plassmann, Joe Rux, Annette Saunders, Julie Gawle and  Laura Depta. Lon  Bumgarner will direct. The show will be presented at the Duke Energy   Theater at Spirit Square at 345 N. College Street in Charlotte. Shows  run  Thursdays through Sundays, May 28th – June 14th. Thursday through  Saturday  shows are at 7:30 pm ..... read more

Charlotte, NC - Epic Arts Repertory Theatre has rescheduled its 2009 offerings. Two shows, Ari Hoptman’s I Married Odin , scheduled for January, and Mary Zimmerman’s Arabian Nights , slotted for late spring, have been cancelled.   Epic Arts’ next show will be Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa , winner of three Tony Awards, an Olivier Award and NY Drama Critics’ Circle Award. The play will open May 28 th at the Duke Energy Theater at Spirit Square, and will be directed by Lon Bumgarner. More info to come on this inspiring and heartwarming production. read more

Charlotte, NC - Epic Arts Repertory Theatre and its members won numerous awards at the recent 2007 - 2008 MTA Awards : Outstanding Original Musical (Tie) A Mad, Mad Madrigal – Epic Arts Repertory Theatre A Midsummer Night's Musical – Epic Arts Repertory Theatre Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actor – Male Stan Peal (Bottom/Pyramus)   A Midsummer Night's Musical – Epic Arts Repertory Theatre Outstanding Cameo Performance Stan Peal (The Minstrel)   A Mad, Mad Madrigal – Epic Arts Repertory Theatre Outstanding Musical Composition Stan Peal   A Mad, Mad Madrigal – Epic Arts Repertory Theatre Outstanding Special Technical Effect Drew Nowlin Description: puppet design   A Midsummer Night's Musical – Epic Arts Repertory Theatre Stan Peal won an additional award for outstanding set design for "The Pillowman" with Actors Theatre of Charlotte : Outstanding Set Design Stan Peal   The Pillowman – Actor's Theatre of Charlotte read more

“A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S MUSICAL” Adapted and Directed by Laura Depta  -  Original Music by Stan Peal Charlotte, NC – Charlotte’s very own Epic Arts Repertory Theatre presents the premiere of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Musical’ this June at Spirit Square.  Director, Laura Depta, has skillfully adapted and gently updated some of Shakespeare's more archaic language creating a text with all of the beauty and poetry of Shakespeare but more easily heard and understood by the modern audience member.  Original music by Stan Peal adds the finishing flair to this sexy, mystical, fairyland fantasy about the whim of passion and the power of love. This original Epic Arts Repertory Theater production stays faithful to Shakespeare's comedy about two couples in love with the wrong partners, how the lovers’ lives are complicated by city law, feuding faerie royalty, and of course, the whimsical nature of love and how they are all finally brought together rightly, thanks in part, to the mischievous work of Puck. It’s a saucy rendition of love lost and found, and perfect Summer fare! “I endeavored to weed out and update some of the more archaic language to make the original script more accessible and understandable to a wide audience. I’ve maintained rhyming couplets and been pretty faithful to the iambic pentameter, so it will still sound and feel like Shakespeare, except that now the audience will understand so much more of what’s actually being said!” , Says Depta. ..... read more