Sea Change

Burning Coal Theatre 224 Polk St., Raleigh, NC, 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? […]

The Color Purple

Raleigh Little Theatre 301 Pogue Street, Raleigh, NC, 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 […]

Dial M For Murder

University Theatre 2241 Dunn Avenue, Raleigh, NC, 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 […]

Blithe Spirit

University Theatre 2241 Dunn Avenue, Raleigh, NC, 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, […]

King John

Arts Coucil of Fayetteville 301 Hay St, Fayetteville, NC

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 […]

Parade

North Raleigh Arts and Creative Theatre 7713-51 Lead Mine Road, Raleigh, North Carolina, 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 […]

Violet

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 […]

Ride the Cyclone

Burning Coal Theatre 224 Polk St., Raleigh, NC, 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 […]

Ride the Cyclone

Burning Coal Theatre 224 Polk St., Raleigh, NC, 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 […]