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Loosely based on the life and career of Dewey Phillips, one of the first disc jockeys to have ever played black music on the radio in the 1950's, Memphis tells the story of a white radio DJ who wants to change the world and a black nightclub singer who is ready for her big break.
In any election year but especially this one, certain topics are fraught with emotion and high stakes.
What better way to spend a hot summer night than seeing "Steel Magnolias" at Theatre Raleigh's Hot Summer Nights? Theatre Raleigh's summer series is beginning to wind down, but it's definitely not cooling off.
Based on the children's novels by P.
The Triangle Rising Star Awards is a regional competition that brings together high school musical theater students from Central and Eastern North Carolina to perform and compete for the chance to represent the Triangle in The National High School Musical Theater Awards in New York City every summer
If/Then is an original musical that tells the story of Elizabeth Vaughan, a 40-year-old woman who moves back to New York City seeking a fresh start to her life.
Based on Bradford Ropes' 1932 novel as well as Busby Berkeley's 1933 film musical adaptation of the same name, 42nd Street tells the story of famed dictatorial Great White Way director Julian Marsh to mount a successful stage production of a musical extravaganza at the height of the Great Depression
Wit is a 90 minute one act play by Margaret Edson that tells the story of Vivian Bearing, a renowned English professor who has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
Based on John Van Druten's play I Am a Camera which was adapted from Christopher Isherwood's short story Goodbye to Berlin, Cabaret is based in the nightlife at the seedy Kit Kat Klub as the Nazis were rising to power in Berlin back in 1931.
MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center
Based on the 1994 Disney animated film of the same name, The Lion King tells the story of Simba, a young lion who is supposed to succeed his father Mufasa, as King of Pride Rock.
For one night only, the Cary Arts Center presented a production of Gerard Alessandrini's hit off-Broadway musical revue Forbidden Broadway.
Set in 1959, Grease tells the story of ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of peer pressure, politics, personal core values, and love in their senior year of high school.
MATILDA National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center
RAGTIME National Tour at North Carolina Theatre
The Book of Mormon is an original musical that tells the story of two young Mormon missionaries who are sent to a remote village in Uganda, where they try to share one of their scriptures, The Book of Mormon (hence the title), but have trouble connecting with the locals who are more worried about wa
THE SOUND OF MUSIC at Durham Performing Arts Center
THE ILLUSIONISTS National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center
North Carolina Theatre's INTO THE WOODS
A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE & MURDER National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center
BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center
Lovingly ripped off from the 1975 classic film Monty Python & the Holy Grail, Spamalot is a highly irreverent spoof of the quest of King Arthur and and his Knights of the roundtable.
Just as another Gershwin-based musical An American in Paris is currently playing big on Broadway, the triangle area was recently treated to a performance of the 1992 Tony-Winning Best Musical Crazy for You presented by the North Carolina Theatre Conservatory Master Summer Theatre Arts School.
Set before 'the day the music died,' Buddy-The Buddy Holly Story tells the true story of rock star Buddy Holly's meteoric rise to fame in the late 1950s-before his life was cut short, along with Ritchie Valens and J.
Based on the 1992 Disney film of the same name, which in turn was inspired by the real-life newsboys strike of 1899 in New York City, Newsies tells the captivating story of a band of underdogs who become unlikely heroes when they stand up to the most powerful men in New York.
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The Bodyguard DPAC (12/08-12/13) |
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MAYBE HAPPY ENDING Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts (9/22-9/27) |
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Gentlemen's Guide to Love and Murder Studio 1 (5/14-5/23) |
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The Great Gatsby Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts (10/06-10/11) |
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Death Becomes Her DPAC (11/10-11/15) |
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ONCE Burning Coal Theatre (8/13-8/30) |
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War Bonds Temple Theatre (2/04-2/07) |
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Mrs. Doubtfire DPAC (10/30-11/01) |
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A Girl Called Tiny The Plant (8/27-9/05) |
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Shadow Amok Time (An immersive, story driven, horror event) Snow Camp Outdoor Theatre (10/15-10/17) |
