This musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel (and the popular 1985 Steven Spielberg film) spotlights Celie, a downtrodden young woman whose personal awakening over the course of 40 years forms the arc of this epic story. With a joyous score featuring jazz, ragtime, gospel, African music and blues, The Color Purple is a story of […]
A new adaptation of the celebrated murder mystery that inspired Hitchcock’s masterpiece! Tony is convinced that his wife Margot has been cheating on him. While the affair may be over, his jealousy is not. Tony spins a web of deception that will tighten around them and ensnare them both in danger, recrimination and murder. Performed […]
Novelist Charles Condomine invites the eccentric medium Madame Arcati to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to gather material for his next book. The scheme backfires when he is haunted by the ghost of his temperamental first wife, Elvira, after the séance. Elvira makes continual attempts to disrupt Charles’s marriage to his second wife, […]
The crown is on the line in King John, Shakespeare’s tale of royal power struggles and betrayal. Playing in repertory with Robin Hood, this thrilling political drama gives you the other side of the fight. Witness the intrigue at the Arts Council in Fayetteville on June 5, 7, 13, 15, 19, and 21. See both King John and Robin Hood to […]
In 1913, Leo Frank, a Brooklyn-raised Jew living in Georgia, is put on trial for the murder of thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan, a factory worker under his employ. Already guilty in the eyes of everyone around him, a sensationalist publisher and a janitor's false testimony seal Leo's fate. His only defenders are a governor with a […]
Violet, a young North Carolina mountain woman, suffered an accident as a girl that left her face permanently disfigured. She embarks on a bus trip across the deep south in 1964 in pursuit of a miracle: the healing touch of a TV evangelist. Along the way, she meets two soldiers who can see past her […]
In this hilarious and outrageous story, the lives of six teenagers from a Canadian chamber choir abruptly end in a freak accident on a roller coaster. When they awaken in limbo, a mechanical fortune teller invites each of them to share a story to win a prize unlike any other — the chance to return […]
In this hilarious and outrageous story, the lives of six teenagers from a Canadian chamber choir abruptly end in a freak accident on a roller coaster. When they awaken in limbo, a mechanical fortune teller invites each of them to share a story to win a prize unlike any other — the chance to return […]
Get ready for action, adventure, and a bit of outlaw rebellion with Sweet Tea Shakespeare’s Robin Hood. Playing in repertory with King John, Robin Hood gives you one half of an epic tale of justice and power. Running at the Arts Council in downtown Fayetteville on June 6, 8, 12, 14, 20, and 22, this performance brings sword fighting, […]
