Mary Mattison News

North Carolina Theatre, the region's premiere nonprofit professional theatre, is proud to announce casting for the first production in its 2017-18 season, Gypsy, playing November 14 through 19 at Raleigh Memorial Auditorium in the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts.

Television audiences know her for her diversity of characters. For soap opera enthusiasts, Dorothy Lyman* is remembered for her work as Opal Gardner on All My Children. For sitcom fans, her brassy southern belle persona, Naomi Harper kept Mama's Family audiences in stitches. Now, the twotime Emmy Award© winning actress makes her way back to her first love, the stage, as Violet Weston in the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning masterpiece August: Osage County November 29- December 9 at the Fletcher Opera Theater.

You can take the girl out of Carolina, but you can never take Carolina out of the girl. Broadway actress and Raleigh native Lauren Kennedy

You can take the girl out of Carolina, but you can never take Carolina out of the girl. Broadway actress and Raleigh native Lauren Kennedy

Broadway actress and Raleigh native Lauren Kennedy (Spamalot, Les Miserables, Sunset Boulevard) returns to her home state to star in Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy's production of the musical Violet, which coincidentally is a show that has ties to her home state.