Comprehensive list of Raleigh theater companies and presenters in and around the surrounding area of Wake County. Does not include high school theater programs or companies exclusively for children. Each organization is a separate entity; some use the same venues or emanate from the same institution but are wholly separate.
- Agape Theatre Project
- Brave New Classics
- Burning Coal
- Cary Players – Cary
- Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts
- EbzB Productions
- Firebox Theatre Company
- Halle Cultural Center – Apex
- Honest Pint
- Judson Theatre Company – Pinehurst
- Justice Theater Project
- Meredith College Theatre
- MOJOAA (Mordecai Park Events)
- Neuse Little Theatre – Smithfield
- NCSU University Theatre
- NC State LIVE
- North Raleigh Arts and Creative Theatre
- Pure Life Theatre
- Reclaiming Our Time
- Raleigh Little Theatre
- Scrap Paper Shakespeare
- Seed Art Share
- South Stream Productions
- Stageworks Theatre of Holly Springs
- Star Pocket Theatre
- Switchyard Theatre Company
- Temple Theatre – Sanford
- Theatre in the Park
- Theatre Raleigh
- Towne Players – Garner
- Vixen Theatre Company
- William Peace University Theatre
- Women’s Theatre Festival
Play Readings / Workshops
Companies that Offer Classes but No Productions of Their Own
- Moonlight Stage Company (acting and improv classes)
- Flying Machine Theatre Studio
- Actors Training Ground (mostly classes with some ticketed student productions)
- North Carolina Theatre
On Hiatus
- Shaw Players
- HiSTORY Stage (no schedule since 2015)
- Urban Garden Performing Arts (now only collaborative/interdisciplinary)
- Exit Though Eden
- St. Augustine Players
- GASP Theatre Co. (summer program at Cardinal Gibbons High School)
- Stillwater Theatre (at Meredith College)
- Three Foxes Theatre Company
- Actors Comedy Lab
- Bare Theatre
- Narrow Way Expressions
- North Carolina Theatre
Defunct
- Sonorous Road (closed; Pure Life Theatre is taking over space end of 2019)
- Raleigh Ensemble Players (closed on May 3, 2012 after 30 years)
- Free Association Theatre Ensemble Cary (closed on April 30, 2012)
- Distillery Theatre
- Owl Tree Theater for the People (nothing since 2013)
- Common Wealth Endeavors (defunct as of 2015)
- Delta Boys (moved to Brooklyn after last local production in Jan. 2018)
- McQueen & Company (founder moved to DC in 2018)
- Blacklist Theatre
- Forest Moon Theater
- North Carolina Theatre
Special thanks to Roy C. Dicks for his contributions to this listing.
Have a Raleigh theater listing to add? E-mail rduonstage [at] gmail.com.
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