King John
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!

Forgive Us, Gustavito
2025-06-19 - 2025-06-21, 2025-06-26 - 2025-06-29 | 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, 2025-06-26 - 2025-06-29 | 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.

Hairspray
2025-06-19 - 2025-06-22, 2025-06-26 - 2025-06-29, 2025-07-03 - 2025-07-06 | Thalian Hall, 310 Chestnut Street, Wilmington, NC, 28401, United States
Winner of the 8 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Hairspray combines ’60s style R&B and infectious dancing as underdog Tracy campaigns to integrate a TV teen dance program. Loads of fun and a great message!

Blithe Spirit
2025-06-19 - 2025-06-22 | 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.

Robin Hood
2025-06-20, 2025-06-22 | 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
2025-06-20 - 2025-06-22, 2025-06-27 - 2025-06-29 | 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

Parade
2025-06-20 - 2025-06-22, 2025-06-27 - 2025-06-29 | 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.

Violet
2025-06-20 - 2025-06-22
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.

Plenty of Time
2025-06-20 - 2025-06-22 | Durham Arts Council, 120 Morris Street, Durham, NC, 27701, United States
What happens when a spoiled, southern debutant and a Black Panther fall in love?
It is 1968. Characters Corey and Christina meet in Oak Bluffs—a black section of Martha’s Vineyard. Over the next forty-three years, they meet on the same annual date to continue their – sometimes-illicit – affair. We follow Christina’s life as she attempts to become a best-selling author and a member of New York Society, and Corey’s as he enters the world of politics and suffers the joys and pains of fatherhood. “I fell in love with Same Time Next Year as a child, but for years I wanted to see our history unfold in a beautiful love story,” says Foster. “As such, Foster’s play is written to be uniquely African-American (yet universal) and, while it takes its concept from Slade’s play, “Plenty of Time” has its own voice and story.”

King John
2025-06-21 | Arts Center of Carrboro, 300-G E Main St, Carrboro, NC, 27510, United States

The Mansion of Many Apartments
2025-06-21 - 2025-06-22, 2025-06-27 - 2025-06-28 | 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.

Sea Change
2025-06-21 - 2025-06-22, 2025-06-25 | 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?

Deal With It
2025-06-22 | Durham Fruit, 305 S. Dillard Street, Durham, NC, United States
What happens when 4 celebrities have to go to anger management group therapy? What happens when secrets come out? When life deals you a bad hand, you have to learn how to DEAL WITH IT!
A one act play written and directed by award winning artist, Renèe A. Nixon. Starring Brandonn Odom, Lebone Moses, Anthony “Ace” Scott, Moriah Williams, David Klionsky, Lucia Foster, Rob Douglas, and Edith Berry.

Ride the Cyclone
2025-06-28 - 2025-06-29 | 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!

Les Misérables
2025-07-15 - 2025-07-20
Cameron Mackintosh presents the acclaimed production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning musical phenomenon, LES MISÉRABLES.
This brilliant staging has taken the world by storm and has been hailed as “Les Mis for the 21st Century” (Huffington Post), “a reborn dream of a production” (Daily Telegraph) and “one of the greatest musicals ever created” (Chicago Tribune).
Set against the backdrop of 19th century France, LES MISÉRABLES tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and redemption – a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit. This epic and uplifting story has become one of the most celebrated musicals in theatrical history.
The magnificent score of LES MISÉRABLES includes the songs “I Dreamed a Dream,” “On My Own,” “Bring Him Home,” “One Day More,” “Master of the House” and many more. Seen by over 130 million people worldwide in 53 countries, 438 cities and 22 languages, LES MISÉRABLES is undisputedly one of the world’s most popular musicals.

Keely and Du
2025-07-25 - 2025-07-26, 2025-07-31 - 2025-08-01 | Shadowbox Studios, 2200 Dominion St, Durham, NC, 27704, United States
This taut drama chronicles the fate of pregnant kidnapping victim Keely, held for months in a suburban basement-turned prison. The play focuses on Keely’s evolving relationship with her seemingly warmhearted adversary Du, a fundamentalist Christian woman who guards Keely to prevent her from terminating her unwanted pregnancy.

The Wiz
2025-08-05 - 2025-08-10 | DPAC, 123 Vivian Street, Durham, NC, 27701, United States
THE WIZ returns “home” to stages across America in an all-new Broadway tour, the first one in 40 years.
Baltimore Sun raves “Powerhouse performances. Stunning choreography. Visionary sets” and Chicago Tribune proclaims THE WIZ is “An eye-popping and high-intensity revival!
This groundbreaking twist on The Wizard of Oz changed the face of Broadway—from its iconic score packed with soul, gospel, rock, and 70s funk to its stirring tale of Dorothy’s journey to find her place in a contemporary world.
With direction by Schele Williams (The Notebook, revival of Disney’s Aida), choreography by JaQuel Knight (Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies,” Black Is King) and additional material by Tony-nominated and Emmy-nominated writer and TV host Amber Ruffin (The Amber Ruffin Show, Late Night with Seth Meyers), this dynamite infusion of ballet, jazz, and modern pop brings a whole new groove to easing on down the road. Everybody rejoice!

Waitress
2025-08-06 - 2025-08-10, 2025-08-13 - 2025-08-17 | Theatre Raleigh Studio, 3027 Barrow Dr, Raleigh, NC, 27616, United States
One of the most beloved Broadway musicals in recent seasons makes its way to Theatre Raleigh!
Featuring unforgettable music and lyrics by Grammy Award winner Sara Bareilles, the story centers on Jenna, a baker who dreams of escaping her job, small town and rocky marriage. Adapted from the 2007 film, it’s an uplifting and inspiring celebration of friendship, motherhood, and the magic of a homemade pie. Waitress promises to be a sweet slice of musical heaven!
