Dial M For Murder
2025-05-29 - 2025-06-01, 2025-06-05 - 2025-06-08, 2025-06-12 - 2025-06-15 | University Theatre, 2241 Dunn Avenue, Raleigh, NC, 27695, United States
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 by special arrangement with Concord Theatricals.

Little Shop of Horrors
2025-05-30 - 2025-06-01 | Gilbert Theater, 116 Green St, Fayetteville, NC, 28301, United States
With music by Alan Menken and lyrics and book by Howard Ashman, it has devoured the hearts of theatergoers for over 30 years. Loosely based on the 1960 Roger Corman cult classic film, the show features several well-known tunes as well as a chorus of three street urchins—Crystal, Chiffon, and Ronette—named after (and reminiscent of) girl groups of the 1960s.

A Beautiful Day
2025-06-05 - 2025-06-08 | Center Theater Company, 4221 Garrett Rd, Durham, NC, United States
A father’s struggle. A son’s future. And the things we do for love. A Beautiful Day is a story of the magical bond between a single father and his autistic son.

Robin Hood
2025-06-06, 2025-06-08, 2025-06-12, 2025-06-14 | Arts Coucil of Fayetteville, 301 Hay St, Fayetteville, NC, 28301
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, daring escapes, and a battle for justice to life. Catch Robin Hood, then see King John on alternate dates to experience both sides of the story!

The Color Purple
2025-06-06 - 2025-06-08 | Raleigh Little Theatre, 301 Pogue Street, Raleigh, NC, 27607, United States
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 hope, a testament to the healing power of love, and a celebration of life.

Violet
2025-06-06 - 2025-06-08, 2025-06-13 - 2025-06-15 | NC
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 scar to her inner beauty and vie for her affections. It is up to Violet to discover her truth in this rousing, moving, award-winning musical.

King John
2025-06-07, 2025-06-13, 2025-06-15, 2025-06-19 | Arts Coucil of Fayetteville, 301 Hay St, Fayetteville, NC, 28301
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 experience this legendary tale from two powerful perspectives!

The Mansion of Many Apartments
2025-06-11, 2025-06-14 | Burning Coal Theatre, 224 Polk St., Raleigh, NC, 27604, United States
29 yr old Rowen awakes in the ICU after an accident, no longer able to recognize faces, even of those closest to her. Prosopagnosia, the doctors say. Face recognition blindness. It may just be temporary, they say.
She hopes returning home to familiarity and routine will reorganize the scrambled and smudged faces. It doesn’t.
The inability to recognize anyone in her life begins to have drastic affects on her relationships, so she starts to build memories and associations that allow her to recognize not only her friends and family, but her own reflection. But as her memory constructs become more elaborate and the ways she, and her relationships have dramatically shifted, her friends and family grow increasingly concerned and impatient, pushing her to return to the “real” world.
The Mansion of Many Apartments explores the nature of identity, memory, and where autonomy and community blur.

Peter and the Starcatcher
2025-06-11 - 2025-06-22 | Theatre Raleigh Studio, 3027 Barrow Dr, Raleigh, NC, 27616, United States
The Tony-winning play, based on the best-selling novels, upends the century-old story of how an orphan boy becomes the legendary Peter Pan.
Peter and the Starcatcher playfully explores the depths of greed and despair… and the bonds of friendship, duty and love. Though not a musical, this play incorporates musical elements to create its magical storytelling. This production uses ingenious stagecraft and imaginative innovation to bring the story to life. While Peter and the Starcatcher is not considered a children’s show, it is appropriate for young people 8 years and older.

Sea Change
2025-06-12, 2025-06-14 - 2025-06-15 | Burning Coal Theatre, 224 Polk St., Raleigh, NC, 27604, United States
The year is 2092 in an America hobbled by climate change, wealth discrepancy, and scarcity. As she races to preserve whatever remains, National Archivist Miranda Hayes is called back to the coast of North Carolina to say goodbye to her dying mother. Can Miranda preserve the crumbling family home and fractured relationships she left behind? Does she want to?

The Color Purple
2025-06-12 - 2025-06-15 | Raleigh Little Theatre, 301 Pogue Street, Raleigh, NC, 27607, United States
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 hope, a testament to the healing power of love, and a celebration of life.

Based upon the novel written by Alice Walker and the Warner Bros./Amblin Entertainment motion picture
Book by Marsha Norman
Music and Lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray

Blithe Spirit
2025-06-12 - 2025-06-15 | University Theatre, 2241 Dunn Avenue, Raleigh, NC, 27695, United States
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, Ruth, who cannot see or hear the ghost.
Performed by special arrangement with Concord Theatricals.

Parade
2025-06-13 - 2025-06-15 | North Raleigh Arts and Creative Theatre, 7713-51 Lead Mine Road, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27615, United States
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 conscience and, eventually, his assimilated Southern wife who finds the strength and love to become his greatest champion.

Ride the Cyclone
2025-06-13 - 2025-06-15, 2025-06-18 | Burning Coal Theatre, 224 Polk St., Raleigh, NC, 27604, United States
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 to life. This popular musical offers a funny and touching perspective on what makes a life well-lived!

Some Like It Hot
2025-06-17 - 2025-06-22 | DPAC, 123 Vivian Street, Durham, NC, 27701, United States
Winner of 4 Tony Awards®, including Best Choreography and Best Costumes, SOME LIKE IT HOT is “A Super-Sized, All-Out Song-And-Dance Spectacular!” – The New York Times
Set in Chicago when Prohibition has everyone thirsty for a little excitement, SOME LIKE IT HOT is the “glorious, big, high-kicking” (Associated Press) story of two musicians forced to flee the Windy City after witnessing a mob hit. With gangsters hot on their heels, they catch a cross-country train for the life-chasing, life-changing trip of a lifetime.
And what a trip it is! With its irresistible combination of heart and laughs, song and dance, SOME LIKE IT HOT won more theater awards than any show in its season, and was named Best Musical by the Drama Desk, The Drama League, and the Outer Critics Circle. No wonder Deadline calls it “a tap-dancing, razzle-dazzling embrace of everything you love about musical theater.”

Forgive Us, Gustavito
2025-06-19 - 2025-06-21 | Burning Coal Theatre, 224 Polk St., Raleigh, NC, 27604, United States
Detective Emilio Hippo is back on the case, and this time, it’s personal! Inspired by true events, Forgive Us, Gustavito is equal parts classic noir and outrageous animal madness. Deep in the shadowy underbelly of a zoo, we ask the question “what does it mean to be complicit in a system you cannot identify.

Hamlet
2025-06-19 - 2025-06-22 | Theatre in the Park, 107 Pullen Rd, Raleigh, NC, 27607, United States
Step into the world of Shakespeare’s Hamlet; where power, betrayal, and vengeance collide in the Danish court. Follow Prince Hamlet’s journey as he seeks to uncover the truth behind his father’s death, navigating a landscape of deception and moral ambiguity. Experience the timeless drama and haunting soliloquies that have captivated audiences for centuries in this iconic tale of love, loss, and the complexities of the human condition.
