Hairspray

Thalian Hall 310 Chestnut Street, Wilmington, NC, 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

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, […]

Robin Hood

Arts Coucil of Fayetteville 301 Hay St, Fayetteville, NC

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Plenty of Time

Durham Arts Council 120 Morris Street, Durham, NC, 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 […]

King John

Arts Center of Carrboro 300-G E Main St, Carrboro, NC, United States

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 […]

The Mansion of Many Apartments

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