Menopause The Musical 2
2025-05-10 | DPAC, 123 Vivian Street, Durham, NC, 27701, United States
All aboard, sisters! The hysterical sequel to the smash-hit Menopause The Musical® is finally here! Five years after their chance encounter in a department store, we set sail with our beloved ladies for more high jinks on the high seas. Menopause The Musical 2: Cruising Through ‘The Change’® is a hilarious and heartfelt look at the joys of menopause and friendship—plus hot flashes, mood swings, and memory lapses! Join us on a trip of self-discovery, backed by a new soundtrack of toe-tapping parodied hits from the 70s, 80s and 90s. For these four ladies, menopause was not the end, but the beginning of a beautiful friendship where love conquers all, and friendships never fail.

Schoolhouse Rock Live!, Jr.
2025-05-10 - 2025-05-11 | Raleigh Little Theatre, 301 Pogue Street, Raleigh, NC, 27607, United States
A pop culture phenomenon comes to the musical stage in Schoolhouse Rock Live! JR. Tom, a nerve-wracked school teacher, is nervous about his first day of teaching. He tries to relax by watching TV, when various characters representing facets of his personality emerge from the set and show him how to win his students over with imagination and music. Inspired by the Emmy Award-winning 1970s Saturday morning cartoon series that taught history, grammar, math and more through clever, tuneful songs, experience Schoolhouse Rock Live! JR. in RLT’s outdoor amphitheatre.

Beauty and the Beast
2025-05-15 - 2025-05-18 | Temple Theatre, 120 Carthage Street, Sanford, NC, 27518
Step into the enchanted world of Disney’s beloved classic. This “tale as old as time” tells the classic story of the beauty, Belle, and the Beast, who is trapped under the spell of an enchantress. If the Beast can learn to love and be loved, the curse will end and he will be transformed into his former self, but time is running out. If the Beast does not learn his lesson soon, he and his household will be doomed for all eternity.

The Eureka Day!
2025-05-16 - 2025-05-17 | Whitted Building, 300 W. Tryon Street, Hillsborough, NC
The Eureka Day of the title is a private elementary school with a Board of Directors that values inclusion above all else — until an outbreak of mumps forces everyone in the community to reconsider the school’s liberal vaccine policy. Personalities and belief systems clash as the Board is ultimately forced to take a stand that won’t please absolutely everybody.

King Lear
2025-05-16 - 2025-05-18 | Ridge Road Baptist Church, 2011 Ridge Rd, Raleigh, 27607
Betrayal, madness, and raw human emotion collide in King Lear, Shakespeare’s gripping tragedy. When aging King Lear divides his kingdom among his daughters, flattery wins over truth—plunging him into chaos, storms, and heartbreak. As power shifts and loyalties crumble, love and vengeance battle in a tale of epic proportions. Packed with intense drama, dark humor, and unforgettable characters, this classic remains as thrilling as ever on stage!

Back to the Future: The Musical
2025-05-20 - 2025-05-25 | DPAC, 123 Vivian Street, Durham, NC, 27701, United States
Winner of the 2022 Olivier Award for Best New Musical, four WhatsOnStage Awards, including Best New Musical, and the Broadway World Award for Best New Musical, BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL is adapted for the stage by the iconic film’s creators Bob Gale (Back to the Future trilogy) and Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump) and directed by the Tony Award®-winner John Rando with original music by multi-Grammy® winners Alan Silvestri (Avengers: Endgame) and Glen Ballard (Michael Jackson’s “Man in the Mirror”), alongside hit songs from the movie including “The Power of Love,” “Johnny B. Goode,” “Earth Angel,” and “Back in Time.”
When Marty McFly finds himself transported back to 1955 in a time machine built by the eccentric scientist Doc Brown, he accidentally changes the course of history. Now he’s in a race against time to fix the present, escape the past, and send himself… back to the future. When BACK TO THE FUTURE hits 88mph, it’ll change musical theatre history forever.

Once on This Island
2025-05-21 - 2025-05-25, 2025-05-28 - 2025-06-01 | Cape Fear Regional Theatre, 1707 Owen Drive, Fayetteville, NC, 28304
Once on this Caribbean Island, Ti Moune, a fearless peasant girl, decided to risk it all for love. Guided by the mighty island gods, she sets out on a remarkable journey to reunite with the man who has captured her heart. Can she prove that love is more powerful than death? Relish in this breathtaking and imaginative dance-filled musical, which overflows with love, grief, faith, and hope!

Little Shop of Horrors
2025-05-23 - 2025-05-25, 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.

The Eureka Day!
2025-05-24 | City Hall Auditorium, 300 Williamsboro St., Hillsborough, NC, United States

A Beautiful Day
2025-05-29 - 2025-06-01, 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.

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.

Robin Hood
2025-06-06, 2025-06-08, 2025-06-12 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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.
