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On May 30 & 31, Deep Dish Theater Company will present its annual Side Dish fundraising benefit.

The North Carolina Shakespeare Festival today announced that it is one of 37 theater companies that will receive a grant of $25,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to participate in Shakespeare for a New Generation from June 1, 2009-May 31, 2010.

In today's tough economy, it's not difficult to find relatively new businesses struggling.

A two-time Grammy Award-winning performer, composer, teacher and writer, Ravi Shankar is India's most esteemed musical Ambassador and a singular phenomenon in the classical music worlds of East and West.

HIT Entertainment, one of the world?s leading independent children?s entertainment producers and rights owners, in association with UK-based I.

Grammy Award-winning trumpeter Chris Botti is a gifted instrumentalist, a talented composer, and a charismatic performer who ? since the release of his first solo album in 1995 ? has created a series of recordings which have made him one of the world?s top-selling instrumental artists.

Hands will be clapping, feet will be dancing, hearts will be soaring and voices will be raised in song when hundreds of North and South Carolina students and teachers commemorate their onstage accomplishments at the Broadway Junior Theatre Celebration, taking place on Thursday, April 30th, from 8:30

Deep Dish Theater Company's eighth season concludes with the Chapel Hill premiere of Jitney by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson.

Burning Coal is excited to announce our fifth collaboration with Historic Oakwood Cemetery: Lessons Learned: Stories from the Oakwood Cemetery.

Burning Coal Theatre Company's New Works Program will present two staged readings this spring, Blue by Raleigh playwright Kelly Doyle, directed by Emily Ranii, on Thursday, May 14, 2009 at 7 p.

Burning Coal Theatre Company will present one additional performance of 1960 by Ian Finley and members of the Burning Coal Theatre Company next Thursday, May 7 at 8 pm at Meymandi Theatre at the Murphey School, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh.

The Blumenthal Performing Arts Center is the first theater outside of Broadway to offer its customers Audience Rewards®, a new national loyalty program for arts fans that allows them to earn points redeemable for show tickets and other great show memorabilia and merchandise.

The North Carolina Shakespeare Festival will be offering Hands On Shakespeare Teacher Workshops for middle and secondary English and Drama teachers as part of it Outreach Education program.

Oprah Winfrey, Scott Sanders and the producing team of the Broadway smash hit THE COLOR PURPLE, The Musical about Love, are proud to announce that Charlotte will host the first North American Touring production of THE COLOR PURPLE for eight performances, May 19-24.

The North Carolina Shakespeare Festival (NCSF) will hold auditions for Equity and non-Equity actors for its 2009 MainStage repertory season productions of Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Westport Country Playhouse will open its 79th season with a wild adventure for adults and children alike, 'Around the World in 80 Days,' adapted from the book by Jules Verne, written by Mark Brown and directed by Michael Evan Haney, April 21 through May 9.

Summer is coming, and with it Burning Coal's Summer Theatre Conservatory.

A two-time Grammy Award-winning performer, composer, teacher and writer, Ravi Shankar is India's most esteemed musical Ambassador and a singular phenomenon in the classical music worlds of East and West.

HIT Entertainment, one of the world?s leading independent children?s entertainment producers and rights owners, in association with UK-based I.

Grammy Award-winning trumpeter Chris Botti is a gifted instrumentalist, a talented composer, and a charismatic performer who ? since the release of his first solo album in 1995 ? has created a series of recordings which have made him one of the world?s top-selling instrumental artists.

The first national tour of LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL will begin performances Tuesday, April 21 at 7:30PM and run through Sunday, April 26 at Ovens Auditorium.

Burning Coal is excited to premier four plays by local students in a professional production this June.

Tickets will go on sale Friday, April 17 at 10 a.

Deep Dish Theater Company's eighth season concludes with the Chapel Hill premiere of Jitney by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson.

Hands will be clapping, feet will be dancing, hearts will be soaring and voices will be raised in song when hundreds of North and South Carolina students and teachers commemorate their onstage accomplishments at the Broadway Junior Theatre Celebration, taking place on Thursday, April 30th, from 8:30