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Join the theater community for a night of fun for a good cause at 'Broadway Twisted,' a gender-bending musical theater fundraiser. The benefit concert, which features local and Broadway talent performing gender-swapped Broadway hits, will play at Chapel Hill's Local 506 tonight, April 15 at 8:00pm.

Join the theater community for a night of fun for a good cause at 'Broadway Twisted,' a gender-bending musical theater fundraiser. The benefit concert, which features local and Broadway talent performing gender-swapped Broadway hits, will play at Chapel Hill's Local 506 on Monday, April 15 at 8:00pm.

This holiday season, PlayMakers Repertory Company will treat Triangle audiences to a family-friendly live version of a treasured holiday film with its production "It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play" by Joe Landry. PlayMakers, the professional theater in residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will present "It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play" now through Dec. 16 in the Paul Green Theatre at UNC's Center for Dramatic Art on Country Club Road. Get a first look at the production in the photos below!

Centered on the middle-aged Irish woman Maureen Folan, this tale of claustrophobic crazy is a brutal two-hour story of hopelessness. But worth every second.

This sounds like an exaggeration, but I promise that it's not: Noises Off at PlayMakers Repertory Company in Chapel Hill is, honest-to-goodness, the funniest thing I have seen in quite some time. It reminded me that live theater is magical - I cannot think of a single movie which is as funny as this live-action comedy. Michael Frayn's writing is brilliant - how any human is able to write something so tight and fast-paced is beyond me. It's not a popular piece for nothing. Under the skillful direction of Michael Michetti, the cast is able to capture the blissful comedy of the piece, beat by beat.

Perry Street Theatricals and Lee Menzies Productions Ltd. will present the first New York reading of the play that inspired the award-winning film, BREAKER MORANT by Kenneth G. Ross.

Perry Street Theatricals and Lee Menzies Productions Ltd. will present the first New York reading of the play that inspired the award-winning film, BREAKER MORANT by Kenneth G. Ross.

Beowulf Alley Theatre has announced its Auditions for '10-'11 Season and also seeks designers and tech crea.

Beowulf Alley Theatre has announced its Auditions for '10-'11 Season and also seeks designers and tech crea.

PlayMakers Repertory Company in Chapel Hill presents Williams' masterpiece the way he always intended - as a break from 'the exhausted theatre of realistic conventions.' A moving tale of a mother/daughter relationship complicated by the daughter's disability, with universal themes of family conflict and dreams deferred, its groundbreaking theatrical form helped establish the memory play in the theatrical canon.

New Repertory Theatre, in residence at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, is thrilled to present The Lieutenant of Inishmore.

New Repertory Theatre, in residence at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, is thrilled to present The Lieutenant of Inishmore.

Tamara Tunie, Brooke Smith, Michael Cerveris and more will guest star in 'an oak tree'

Martin Platt, Co-director of the Perry Street Theatre Company, has been tapped to direct the European Premiere of John Patrick Shanley's Tony Award Winning Drama, DOUBT to begin performances at Vienna's English Theatre at January 30 - March 11, 2006.