Beltline to Broadway

Murder on the Orient Express
2025-01-31 - 2025-02-02, 2025-02-06 - 2025-02-09 | Arts Coucil of Fayetteville, 301 Hay St, Fayetteville, NC, 28301
Adapted from Agatha Christie’s classic novel, Murder on the Orient Express throws a group of strangers together on a luxury train ride—and someone ends up dead. The brilliant detective Hercule Poirot must sift through a tangled web of lies, secrets, and motives to reveal the murderer. Directed by Ayana Washington, this production leans into Christie’s intricate plot twists, exploring the themes of justice, morality, and truth, all while keeping audiences on the edge of their seats. With intimate indoor staging and an engaging, atmospheric design, you’ll feel like you’re right there on the train, a part of the mystery.

A Trip to Bountiful
2025-01-31 - 2025-02-03 | Cary Arts Center, 101 Dry Ave, Cary, NC, 27511, United States
Horton Foote’s moving play tells the story of Carrie Watts, an elderly woman, who longs to escape the cramped Houston apartment where she lives with her protective son, Ludie, and her authoritarian daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae. Carrie wants to return to her beloved hometown of Bountiful, Texas, one final time before she dies. While Ludie is at work and Jessie Mae is at the drugstore, Carrie escapes to the bus station and befriends a young woman named Thelma. The new friends travel toward Bountiful together, but when Carrie arrives in nearby Harrison, Texas, she begins to learn that her beloved town isn’t the same as she remembered it.

Death of a Salesman
2025-02-05 - 2025-02-09, 2025-02-12 - 2025-02-16 | PlayMakers Repertory Company, 120 Country Club Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
Bear witness to the tragic unraveling of Willy Loman, a weary salesman chasing the elusive American Dream. Amidst family strife and shattered illusions, his journey becomes a haunting exploration of identity, disillusionment, and the relentless pursuit of success. Experience one of the most powerful and enduring plays in American history.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2025-02-05 - 2025-02-09, 2025-02-12 - 2025-02-16, 2025-02-19 - 2025-02-23 | Cape Fear Regional Theatre, 1707 Owen Drive, Fayetteville, NC, 28304
Based on Roald Dahl’s novel, the world-famous Willy Wonka is opening the gates to his mysterious chocolate factory…but only to a lucky few. Five golden ticket winners embark on a life-changing journey through Wonka’s world of pure imagination, including chocolate waterfalls, nutty squirrels and the great glass elevator, all to be revealed by Wonka’s army of curious Oompa-Loompas!

Paint Me This House Of Love
2025-02-06 - 2025-02-09, 2025-02-13 - 2025-02-16 | Burning Coal Theatre, 224 Polk St., Raleigh, NC, 27604, United States
When Jules appears at Cecelia’s house after twenty-five years of estrangement to help her renovate it, the two must navigate the web of narratives they’ve told themselves and each other.

The Sweet Delilah Swim Club
2025-02-06 - 2025-02-09, 2025-02-13 - 2025-02-16 | Temple Theatre, 120 Carthage Street, Sanford, NC, 27518
Five Southern women, whose friendships began on their college swim team, set aside a long weekend every August to recharge those relationships. Free from husbands, kids, and jobs, they meet at the beach cottage, the “Sweet Delilah” on North Carolina’s Outer Banks to catch up, laugh, and meddle in each other’s lives. SWEET DELILAH SWIM CLUB is a hilarious and touching comedy about friendships that last forever.

Helen’s History Hop (Staged reading)
2025-02-07 - 2025-02-08 | NC
Seventh-grade Helen has no interest in history until she is whisked away by the Queen of Time to meet Harriet Tubman, Bessie Coleman and other prominent historical figures – not to HEAR about history, but to LIVE it. Will her newfound experience help her solve a modern-day crisis and save her classmate’s future? A time-traveling science fiction romp through Black history. Come for the reading, stay for talkback and thoughtful discussion about this new play from a local playwright, in the Performance Hall at the Hayti Heritage Center.

Akeelah and the Bee
2025-02-07 - 2025-02-09, 2025-02-14 - 2025-02-16, 2025-02-21 - 2025-02-23 | Raleigh Little Theatre, 301 Pogue Street, Raleigh, NC, 27607, United States
Akeelah has a crazy passion for words: the more abstruse and labyrinthine, the better. But this gift is almost overwhelmed by the challenge of her daily life in a tough, Chicago neighborhood. Akeelah’s aptitude earns her a spot in the National Spelling Bee, which inspires the people in her neighborhood with her courage and tenacity.
Adapted for the stage by Cheryl L. West
Based on the original screenplay by Doug Atchison
Directed by Monét Noelle Marshall

Appropriate
2025-02-07 - 2025-02-09 | Raleigh Little Theatre, 301 Pogue Street, Raleigh, NC, 27607, United States
Every estranged member of the Lafayette clan has descended upon the crumbling Arkansas homestead to settle the accounts of the newly dead patriarch. As his three adult children sort through a lifetime of hoarded mementos and junk, they collide over clutter, debt, and a contentious family history. But after a disturbing discovery surfaces among their father’s possessions, the reunion takes a turn for the explosive, unleashing a series of crackling surprises and confrontations.

Fairview
2025-02-07 - 2025-02-09, 2025-02-14 - 2025-02-16, 2025-02-21 - 2025-02-23 | NC
This February at The Justice Theater Project, there’s more to this domestic comedy than meets the eye. We can’t tell you too much…you’ll have to watch this 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winner for yourself!
Don’t miss this twisty, laugh-out-loud, shapeshifting theatrical experience, directed by Lormarev Jones.

TR In Concert: Melvin Gray Jr – Dreaming Big
2025-02-08 19:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Theatre Raleigh Studio, 3027 Barrow Dr, Raleigh, NC, 27616, United States
Melvin’s show, “Dreaming Big”, is a peek into the dream roles he hopes to perform one day! Enjoy songs from The Last 5 Years, Into The Woods, Ain’t Too Proud, Little Shop of Horrors and more!
Previously Melvin could be seen traveling across the country in the 1st National Broadway Tour Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations (Swing/Dance Captain). Regional: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Drifter), Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Adrian), Songs For A New World (Standby Man 1 & 2), The Scottsboro Boys (Ozie Powell/Ruby Bates), Newsies (Albert).

A Chorus Line
2025-02-13 - 2025-02-16, 2025-02-20 - 2025-02-23 | Theatre Raleigh Studio, 3027 Barrow Dr, Raleigh, NC, 27616, United States
Set in 1975, A Chorus Line examines one day in the lives of seventeen dancers, all vying for a spot in the “chorus line” of a Broadway musical. The show opens during an audition for an upcoming Broadway production. The formidable director Zach and his assistant choreographer Larry put the 24 dancers through their paces. Every dancer is desperate for work. After a round of cuts, 17 dancers remain. Zach tells them he is looking for a strong 8-member dancing chorus of four boys and four girls. Wanting to learn more about them, he asks the dancers to introduce themselves. Reluctantly, the dancers reveal their pasts. The stories generally progress chronologically from early life experiences through adulthood to the end of a career.

The Bridges of Madison County
2025-02-14 - 2025-02-15, 2025-02-22 - 2025-02-23 | McGregor Hall, 201 Breckenridge Street, Henderson, NC, 27518, United States
After marrying an American soldier to escape Italy at the end of World War II, Francesca builds herself a home in Iowa, raising two children and settling into a steady but unremarkable routine. Then one day, she meets Robert, a charismatic photographer, who awakens her passion and changes her life forever.
With a gorgeous Tony Award-winning score by Jason Robert Brown (The Last Five Years, Parade) and a moving book by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman (The Color Purple, The Secret Garden), The Bridges of Madison County is a ravishing story about the choices we make for love.

TR In Concert: Seth Rudetsky – Divas by the Decade
2025-02-14 19:30 - 21:30 | Theatre Raleigh Studio, 3027 Barrow Dr, Raleigh, NC, 27616, United States
Broadway’s Seth Rudetsky returns to Theatre Raleigh with a brand new show, Divas by the Decade!
Seth has been on Broadway for more than 20 years as an actor, writer, pianist and conductor. He is currently the afternoon deejay on the SiriusXM Broadway channel and hosts the show ‘Seth Speaks’.

Pippin
2025-02-20 - 2025-02-23 | Theatre in the Park, 107 Pullen Rd, Raleigh, NC, 27607, United States
With an infectiously unforgettable score from four-time Grammy winner, three-time Oscar winner and musical theatre giant, Stephen Schwartz, Pippin is the story of one young man’s journey to be extraordinary. Winner of four 2013 Tony Awards including Best Musical Revival, this updated version of Pippin continues to captivate and appeal to the young at heart throughout the world.
Heir to the throne, the young prince Pippin is in search of the secret to true happiness and fulfillment. He seeks it in the glories of the battlefield, and the intrigues of political power. In the end, though, Pippin finds that happiness lies not in extraordinary endeavors, but rather in the unextraordinary moments that happen every day.

The Treasurer
2025-02-20 - 2025-02-23 | Arts Center of Carrboro, 300-G E Main St, Carrboro, NC, 27510, United States
A COLLABORATION NOT TO BE MISSED! Independent Triangle theater companies coalesce to produce The Treasurer, a sharply intimate play by Max Posner. Brought to you by American Theater Practice and Merrybelle Park Productions in association with RedBird Theater Company at The ArtsCenter in Carrboro, this visionary dark comedy directed by Derrick Ivey features an adept cast and tech team: Marcia Edmundson, Mark Filiaci, Jessica Flemming, Ben Apple, Chuck Catotti, Erin West, JJ Bauer, Edith Snow, Chris Eselgroth, Rebecca Newton, and more.

The Importance of Being Earnest
2025-02-21 - 2025-02-23 | NC
Two charming young ladies—sophisticated Gwendolen from the city and naive Cecily from the country—are in love with Earnest Worthing. But there is no such person as Earnest Worthing! Gwendolen thinks Jack is Earnest, and Cecily thinks Algy is Earnest. Each girl swears that she could never love a man who wasn’t named Earnest. In the midst of all this confusion comes Lady Bracknell, who doesn’t like the idea of anybody loving anybody.

Jitney
2025-02-22 - 2025-02-25 | Leggett Theater, 15 E Peace Street, Raleigh, NC, United States
Experience the power of storytelling with August Wilson’s Jitney, a compelling masterpiece set in the 1970s that captures the heartbeat of Pittsburgh’s Hill District. At the center of this gripping drama are the lives of unlicensed cab drivers, whose jitney station becomes a sanctuary of hope, struggle, and camaraderie. When the station faces the threat of closure, the men must confront their pasts, navigate complex relationships, and fight to preserve their livelihood in an ever-changing world.
August Wilson’s Jitney is a testament to resilience, community, and the unyielding human spirit. With rich dialogue, vivid characters, and poignant themes, this production promises to leave audiences deeply moved and inspired.
