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The University of North Carolina School of the Arts has named dancer, choreographer, and educator Endalyn Taylor as its new dean of the School of Dance effective August 1.

As the world is beginning to open back up and we reflect on what we have been through and learned since last March, the theatrical art form is here to provide context and curate this time.

Opera House Theatre Company has announced three upcoming shows to be performed this summer.

North Carolina Theatre has announced the cast and creative team for Songs for a New World by Tony Award-winner Jason Robert Brown, directed by Eric Woodall.

Songs for a New World is set to be North Carolina Theatre's first production since the pandemic began over a year ago.

Carolina Youth Theatre will present “Clue,” its first live, in-person stage production since February 2020.

City Plaza will be buzzing with the sounds of local artists and performers this June as the Raleigh Convention & Performing Arts Complex and Downtown Raleigh Alliance kick off Noon Tunes @ City Plaza every Wednesday afternoon from 12-1pm.

The Off-Broadway hit comedy Men Are From Mars – Women Are From Venus LIVE!, is a one-man fusion of theatre and stand-up, and is a light-hearted theatrical comedy based on the New York Times #1 best-selling book of the last decade by John Gray.

In 2016 and 2017, I had the great pleasure of attending the Triangle Rising Star Awards at the Durham Performing Arts Center.

Eastern Music Festival has announced the return to live performances this summer.

The Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts announced today that it has exceeded 17,000 season seat memberships for its inaugural Broadway season.

The Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts invites you to come learn about migratory birds and bees during “The Birds and the Bees” popup markets in May.

PineCone is bringing live bluegrass music back to downtown Raleigh's Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts and local NC native, IBMA award winner and banjo virtuoso, Tray Wellington will help kick off the return of the Down Home Concert Series May 7 at 1pm in Moore Square.

The company is offers a variety of in-person and livestreamed opportunities to join including Evita (June 17-27, outdoors at Dorothea Dix Park), the KidsWrite! Festival (May 28-29, virtual live), and the Second Stage Series (June 10-27, hybrid in-person and virtual).

Raleigh Little Theatre’s 2021-22 Season of New Heights was announced on April 30, 2021, during a live video on the theatre’s Facebook page.

Guests will once again grace the seats at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, as the North Carolina Symphony welcomes small, socially distanced audiences to Meymandi Concert Hall for six performances this spring—in accordance with capacity regulations for in-person gatherings set by Go

University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) in Winston-Salem has announced the removal of ballet “La Bayadère” from its upcoming Spring Dance concert.

In honor of World Press Freedom Day,  PlayMakers Repertory Company will release a limited encore run of the world premiere production of “Edges of Time,” written by Jacqueline E.

Pollstar Magazine, the leading trade publication for the global live entertainment industry, has nominated DPAC for its new “Theatre of the Decade” award, as part of their 32nd Annual Pollstar Awards' Celebration.

Today, it was announced that DPAC is hosting a Spring Virtual Food Drive, which will take place through Friday, April 30th.

Are the last few weeks of the semester getting you down? Here are some of my favorite motivational quotes from musicals:

Raleigh Little Theatre presents a concert-style production of 'The Last Five Years.

Festivalgoers and music fans worldwide will be delighted to know that MerleFest, presented by Window World, will officially reconvene September 16-19, on the campus of Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, North Carolina.

Burning Coal Theatre Company's Kidswrite 2021 Playwriting Festival has announced the scripts that have been selected for production this year.

Theatre Raleigh will start their 2021 Season with the crowd pleasing Broadway concert, Oh, What A Night!, and have added to the beginning of the summer is the adaptation of David Cecelski's book, The Fire of Freedom.