Watch: Welcome to the 2024/2025 Wortham Presents season!
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Wortham Presents 2024/2025 Season Brochure
Welcome to the Wortham’s 2024/2025 season! Here you will find adventure, excitement and awe with more than 30 stunning artists from around the globe. With so many choices, where will your journey take you?
Blessed be the punchlines: Dubac’s ‘Stand-Up Jesus’ preaches the miracles of laughter
–as seen in Asheville Citizen Times / Scene, April 26, 2024. Jesus of Nazareth returns after 2,000 years, but this time he’s no carpenter: He’s a stand-up comedian — one who, strangely, bears a striking resemblance to writer, actor and comic Robert Dubac. Asheville audiences may remember Dubac from his previous performance, “The Book of Moron,” […]
Laughing at life’s absurdities: An interview with Cathy Ladman
On a Thursday morning in February, stand-up comedian Cathy Ladman was scrolling through the Notes app on her phone, stopping to read aloud her most nonsensical self-reminders — comically brief and vague, joke-adjacent, but with long-forgotten punchlines. “I mean, here I just wrote a title: ‘Forgetting Things.’ That’s it. That’s all I wrote. Ridiculous!” she […]
Stand-up returns to the Wortham with The Comedy Zone
As seen in Asheville Scene, Oct. 13, 2023 The theater lights dim, a spotlight blinks on, and golden light is cast across a lone microphone at centerstage. The evening’s entertainer arrives, and the hushed crowd erupts into laughter that echoes throughout the intimate venue. Though these are nationally renowned, touring comedians, this isn’t a one-off […]
Wortham Center announces inspiring artists for new season
Asheville Scene, September 1, 2023 The Wortham Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Asheville is proud to announce a full lineup of world-class companies and performers for its 2023-24 season, which runs from September through May. Beginning with a season-opening show on Saturday, Sept. 23, the Wortham Center’s 2023-24 season brings a wide range […]