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Raleigh, NC 27616

A Starry Affair: An Old Hollywood New Year’s Eve


Step into the spotlight and celebrate the New Year in true silver-screen style.  A Starry Affair  transforms Theatre Raleigh into a glittering 1940s film studio ...

The Sarafinas, My Way
The Sarafinas, My Way
2/12 - 2/15/2026


The Sarafinas, My Way  is a dance-theatre concert featuring NYC’s premier precision dance company,  The Sarafinas  and Emmy-Nominated TV Host and Broadway Veteran,   Amanda ...


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Video: Amanda Kloots and The Sarafinas Star In MY WAY At Theatre Raleigh


by A.A. Cristi - December 05, 2025

Purdie Entertainment and Theatre Raleigh will present THE SARAFINAS, MY WAY, a dance-theatre concert featuring Emmy-nominated television host and Broadway performer Amanda Kloots. Watch the trailer....

Video: Amanda Kloots and The Sarafinas Star In MY WAY At Theatre Raleigh


by A.A. Cristi - December 05, 2025

Purdie Entertainment and Theatre Raleigh will present THE SARAFINAS, MY WAY, a dance-theatre concert featuring Emmy-nominated television host and Broadway performer Amanda Kloots. Watch the trailer....

First Standings Announced for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Raleigh Awards; RAGTIME Leads Best Musical!


by BWW Awards - December 01, 2025

The first standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Raleigh Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

BROADWAY'S HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS to Run for 4 Performances in the Cape Cinema


by Gillian Blum - November 15, 2025

Claybourne Elder and Sara Jean Ford will perform a selection of traditional and Broadway holiday songs and share some wonderful seasonal stories and laughter through four performances of Broadway's Home for the Holidays in the Cape Cinema....

Review: Theatre Raleigh's ONCE ON THIS ISLAND


by Jeffrey Kare - November 13, 2025

Based on Rosa Guy’s 1985 novel, My Love, My Love; or, The Peasant Girl, a Caribbean-set retelling of the original fairy tale of The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen....

Video: Amaya White Sings 'Waiting for Life' from ONCE ON THIS ISLAND at Theatre Raleigh


by Joshua Wright - October 30, 2025

Watch Amaya White sing 'Waiting for Life' from Theatre Raleigh's Once On This Island accompanied by Brian Whitted. The production runs November 12th through November 23rd, 2025....

BWW Q&A: Amaya White Talks ONCE ON THIS ISLAND at Theatre Raleigh


by Joshua Wright - October 29, 2025

BroadwayWorld spoke to Amaya White about starring in Theatre Raleigh's production of Once on this Island. Theatre Raleigh is a professional, nonprofit theater company based in Raleigh, N.C. dedicated to inclusion and diversity, enriching the community through innovative and intimate theatrical exper...

Review: Ali Stroker in Concert at Theatre Raleigh


by Jeffrey Kare - October 19, 2025

In June 2016, my mom and I went to New York during Tony Awards weekend. On the day of the telecast, we both walked all the way to the Beacon Theatre (where the ceremony was taking place) while rehearsal was going on...

ONCE ON THIS ISLAND Comes to Theatre Raleigh


by Stephi Wild - October 08, 2025

​​​​​​​Theatre Raleigh will continue its 2025 season with 'Once on This Island,' the Tony Award-winning Caribbean adaptation of the popular fairy tale 'The Little Mermaid' in November...

Meet the Cast of THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES, Now Playing on Broadway


by Stephi Wild - October 08, 2025

Performances are now underway for the Broadway premiere of The Queen of Versailles. Previews begin on October 8. Meet the cast of The Queen of Versailles here and read bios of the show's stars and cast! ...

Past Shows

Once on This Island
Once on This Island
11/12 - 11/23/2025


Experience the magic of Theatre Raleigh’s Once On This Island —a vibrant, Caribbean-inspired fairy tale for all ages! From the Tony Award–winning team behind Ragtime, ...

Once on This Island
11/12 - 11/23/2025


Once on This Island is a Caribbean-inspired musical that transforms the beloved fairy tale of The Little Mermaid into a vibrant and poignant narrative. Set ...

Once on This Island
Once on This Island
11/12 - 11/23/2025


Experience the magic of Theatre Raleigh’s  Once On This Island —a vibrant, Caribbean-inspired fairy tale for all ages!  From the Tony Award–winning team behind  Ragtime ...

TR Sings...Whitney Houston


TR Sings Whitney Houston A Night to Celebrate a Legend   Nov 2nd, 2025 at 7:00 PM   Get ready for an unforgettable evening as  TR ...

TR In Concert: Ali Stroker


TR In Concert: Ali Stroker De Ann S. Jones Theatre, Theatre Raleigh Arts Center Ali Stroker is a Tony Award winner for her role as ...


Theatre Raleigh is set to premiere a new musical from September 24 to October 5, 2025. Following the success of the previous season's "Bull Durham," ...

What We Leave Behind
What We Leave Behind
9/24 - 10/5/2025


WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND, is a profound and timely musical exploring the impact of chronic illness on a family. When musical theatre composer Jenny receives ...

Waitress
Waitress
8/6 - 8/24/2025


One of the most beloved Broadway musicals in recent seasons makes its way to Theatre Raleigh in a new production that will make you laugh ...

Waitress
Waitress
8/6 - 8/24/2025


One of the most beloved Broadway musicals in recent seasons makes its way to Theatre Raleigh in a new production that will make you laugh ...

Waitress
Waitress
8/6 - 8/24/2025


One of the most beloved Broadway musicals in recent seasons makes its way to Theatre Raleigh in a new production that will make you laugh ...

Waitress
8/6 - 8/24/2025


Theatre Raleigh will present Waitress from August 6 to August 24, 2025. The musical, featuring music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles, follows Jenna, a talented ...

TR Sings...Sara Bareilles


TR Sings...Sara Bareilles A Celebration of Musical Storytelling Aug 3rd 7:00 PM   Join us for an extraordinary night as  TR Sings...Sara Bareilles  honors the ...

TR In Concert: Drew Gehling


TR In Concert - Drew Gehling June 28th, 2025 at 7:30 PM Currently starring as William Shakespeare in the Broadway production of  & Juliet , ...

Peter and the Starcatcher
Peter and the Starcatcher
6/11 - 6/22/2025


The Tony-winning play, based on the best-selling novels, upends the century-old story of how an orphan boy becomes the legendary Peter Pan.Peter and the Starcatcher ...

Peter and the Starcatcher
6/11 - 6/22/2025


Peter and the Starcatcher opens at Theatre Raleigh on June 11, 2025, and runs until June 22. This Tony-winning play reimagines the story of Peter ...

TR Sings...Disney


Step into a world of wonder and enchantment with  TR Sings...Disney , a spellbinding evening where  local artists  bring your favorite Disney songs to life! ...

TR In Concert: Ali Stroker


TR In Concert: Ali Stroker May 17, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. Ali Stroker is a Tony Award winner for her role as ‘Ado Annie’ in ...

TR In Concert: Carmen Cusack


TR In Concert: Carmen Cusack May 10th at 7:30 PM Carmen Cusack returns to Theatre Raleigh after starring as Annie in last season's musical  Bull ...

The Trip to Bountiful
3/26 - 4/6/2025


The Trip to Bountiful, a Tony Award-winning play by Horton Foote, portrays the poignant journey of Carrie Watts, an elderly Southern woman yearning to return ...

The Trip to Bountiful
The Trip to Bountiful
3/26 - 4/6/2025


Horton Foote’s TONY-winning play tells the moving story of Carrie Watts, an elderly Southern woman who dreams of escaping the bustling city to return to ...

TR In Concert: Oren and Krystin Bailey


Oren and Krystin Bailey are a married musical duo  local to Raleigh NC. They met five years ago at a concert and have been singing ...

TR In Concert: Seth Rudetsky – Divas by the Decade


Seth is known as “The Mayor Of Broadway” (at least that’s what Audra McDonald calls him), and he’s been on Broadway for more than 20 ...

TR In Concert: Melvin Gray Jr – Dreaming Big


Melvin's show "Dreaming Big" is a peek into the dream roles he hopes to perform one day!  Enjoy songs from  The Last 5 Years, Into ...

What We Leave Behind Developmental Reading


Capital Arts Theater Guild is partnering with Theatre Raleigh to foster the development of the new musical, What We Leave Behind , from it’s staged ...

Gatsby’s New Year’s Eve Party


This New Year’s Eve, let the champagne flow at Theatre Raleigh’s exclusive Gatsby-inspired soirée with a curated tasting menu by David Casteel of Mitchell-Casteel, A ...

Holiday Cabaret
Holiday Cabaret
12/12 - 12/15/2024


Cozy up in our Cabaret Theatre and enjoy your favorite songs of the season performed by Theatre Raleigh favorite, Ellie Barone Joining Ellie each night ...

TR In Concert: Melvin Gray Jr – Dreaming Big


Melvin's show "Dreaming Big" is a peek into the dream roles he hopes to perform one day!  Enjoy songs from  The Last 5 Years, Into ...

TR In Concert: Melvin Gray Jr – Dreaming Big


Melvin's show "Dreaming Big" is a peek into the dream roles he hopes to perform one day!  Enjoy songs from  The Last 5 Years, Into ...

TR In Concert: Stephanie J. Block


STEPHANIE J. BLOCK  was most recently seen on Broadway starring as The Baker’s Wife in the 2022/2023 critically acclaimed production of Into the Woods.    ...

Curse of the Starving Class
Curse of the Starving Class
11/6 - 11/17/2024


The setting is a farmhouse in the American West, inhabited by a family who has enough to eat but not enough to satisfy the other ...

Curse of the Starving Class
Curse of the Starving Class
11/6 - 11/17/2024


The setting is a farmhouse in the American West, inhabited by a family who has enough to eat but not enough to satisfy the other ...


7 Tales from 7 Voices: A Cary Playwrights' Forum Retrospective is part of the inaugural Raleigh Fringe Festival, showcasing a unique collection of narratives that ...

Brothers in Arms
Brothers in Arms
9/20 - 9/22/2024


Brothers in Arms is part of the inaugural Raleigh Fringe Festival, taking place from September 20 to September 22, 2024, at the Theatre Raleigh Arts ...

Bull Durham, A New Musical
Bull Durham, A New Musical
9/10 - 9/22/2024


Bull Durham, A New Musical  is based on the classic MGM film, tells the story of three lives brought together by America’s two favorite pastimes: ...

Commedia For The People!
9/20 - 9/22/2024


Commedia For The People! is one of the exciting performances featured in the inaugural Raleigh Fringe Festival, taking place at Theatre Raleigh from September 20 ...

Don Giovanni (Abridged!)
9/20 - 9/22/2024


Don Giovanni (Abridged!) is part of the inaugural Raleigh Fringe Festival, running from September 20-22 at Theatre Raleigh. This production promises to deliver a unique ...

Good Girl Gone Single
9/20 - 9/22/2024


Good Girl Gone Single is a featured performance at the inaugural Raleigh Fringe Festival, running from September 20 to September 22, 2024, at Theatre Raleigh. ...


Hearts & Minds: A Guide to Relationships is part of the inaugural Raleigh Fringe Festival, taking place from September 20 to September 22, 2024, at ...


Our Hues Are Enuff To Withstand The Storm: A Celebration of Black Womanhood is part of the inaugural Raleigh Fringe Festival, showcasing a dynamic performance ...

party robot
9/20 - 9/22/2024


The Raleigh Fringe Festival features an exciting lineup of performances, including party robot, from September 20 to 22 at Theatre Raleigh. This inaugural festival highlights ...


Taali se Taal tak: when clap narrates is part of the inaugural Raleigh Fringe Festival, scheduled for September 20-22, 2024, at Theatre Raleigh. This performance ...


The Eschatology of Terence McKenna is part of the inaugural Raleigh Fringe Festival, taking place at Theatre Raleigh from September 20 to September 22, 2024. ...


The Standbys Present: Give My Regards to (off) Broadway is part of the inaugural Raleigh Fringe Festival, running from September 20 to September 22 at ...

Toast-Her
9/20 - 9/22/2024


Toast-Her is part of the inaugural Raleigh Fringe Festival, running from September 20-22, 2024, at Theatre Raleigh. The festival features a variety of performances that ...

TR In Concert: Julie Benko


When  Julie Benko  first took the stage as the standby for Fanny Brice in Funny Girl, she could not have anticipated that she would take ...

Vonya and Sonia and Masha and Spike


With wit and absurdity, Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike blends Chekhov’s famous ennui with the modern-day toils and troubles of celebrity, ...

TR In Concert: Anne Scaramuzzo – Mother Knows Best


Being a mom is tough, but remember you are tougher. ‘    Come join Anne Scaramuzzo as she celebrates and commiserates about the hardest job ...

TR In Concert: Seth Rudetsky - Seth's Bit Fat Broadway Show


Seth Rudetsky is a Broadway performer, writer, pianist and conductor as well as a former Emmy-nominated comedy writer on “The Rosie O’Donnell Show.” In March ...

Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre
5/29 - 6/9/2024


Charlotte Brontë’s great love story comes to life with music to lift your heart and set your spirit soaring. This beloved tale of secrets and ...

Tick, Tick...BOOM!
Tick, Tick...BOOM!
4/10 - 4/21/2024


Before  Rent , there was   Tick, Tick… Boom!   This autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson, the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning composer of  Rent ...

TR In Concert: The Music of Sam Cooke


Twist the night away with the stories and music of the King of Soul, Sam Cooke! Singer, songwriter, entrepreneur and civil rights activist, Cooke fused ...

TR In Concert: Sun Records Live - The Concert


In honor of Sun Records and the 100th birthday of founder Sam Phillips,  Sun Records Live – The Concert  made its global premiere at the ...

TR In Concert: Telly Leung


Telly Leung is a Chinese-American, New York City native, Broadway & television performer, recording artist, producer, director, theater arts teacher & coach. He holds a ...

The 1940s Radio Hour
The 1940s Radio Hour
12/13 - 12/24/2023


The 1940s Radio Hour  is a musical by Walton Jones. Using popular songs from the 1940s, it portrays the final holiday broadcast of the Mutual Manhattan ...

Barbecue
Barbecue
10/18 - 10/29/2023


The grill is hot, the beer is chilled, and the table is set for a typical O’Mallery family barbecue.  Barbecue   centers on around the ...

The Prom
The Prom
8/2 - 8/13/2023


The Prom August 2 – 13 | De Ann S. Jones Theatre    Four eccentric Broadway stars are in desperate need of a new stage. ...

The Weight of Everything We Know


World Premiere  of the new play by  North Carolina playwright Allan Maule.  In May 2019, the kilogram changed its mass to be based on mathematical ...

Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812


From the celebrated and award-winning composer Dave Malloy comes  Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 , an electropop opera based on a scandalous slice ...

Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812


From the celebrated and award-winning composer Dave Malloy comes Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, an electropop opera based on a scandalous slice ...

The Play That Goes Wrong
The Play That Goes Wrong
9/14 - 9/25/2022


Welcome to opening night of The Murder at Haversham Manor where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. With an unconscious leading lady, ...

The Play That Goes Wrong
The Play That Goes Wrong
9/14 - 9/25/2022


Welcome to opening night of The Murder at Haversham Manor where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. With an unconscious leading lady, ...

City of Angels
City of Angels
8/3 - 8/14/2022

City of Angels
City of Angels
8/3 - 8/14/2022


In the late 1940s, Stine, a bookish writer of detective stories, struggles to adapt his crime novel into a workable screenplay. As Stine tries to ...

Yellow Face
Yellow Face
6/22 - 7/3/2022


Yellow Face explores the lines between truth and fiction; they blur with hilarious and moving results in David Henry Hwangs unreliable memoir. Asian-American playwright DHH, ...

Fun Home
Fun Home
8/25 - 9/5/2021


Winner of the 2015 Tony Award for Best Musical, Fun Home is based on Alison Bechdels best-selling graphic memoir. This groundbreaking production introduces us to ...

Fun Home
Fun Home
8/25 - 9/5/2021

Into the Breeches
Into the Breeches
7/28 - 8/8/2021


Raleigh, NC, 1942: The local director and actors are off at war, so the directors wife sets out to produce an all-female version of Shakespeares ...

Oh, What a Night
Oh, What a Night
7/7 - 7/11/2021


Back by popular demand, Theatre Raleigh brings you the 4th incarnation of Oh What A Night!!! Experience the concert event of the season, celebrating the ...

The Fire of Freedom
The Fire of Freedom
6/18 - 6/20/2021


The story follows Abraham H. Galloway, a fiery young slave rebel, radical abolitionist, and Union spy who rose out of bondage to become one of ...

The Light in the Piazza
7/6 - 7/14/2016


The Light in the Piazza is a love story of a young American woman who while on holiday falls for a young Italian man. When ...

Carousel in Concert
Carousel in Concert
8/27 - 8/30/2015


The gorgeous score of Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical masterpiece will come alive for 3 performances on the Old Town Temecula Theater stage. Presented by The ...

Sleuth
Sleuth
8/5 - 8/16/2015


Sleuth has all the ingredients of a top-class thriller - a plot whose twists and turns are breathtakingly audacious and fiendishly cunning; suspense and excitement ...

Dreamgirls
Dreamgirls
7/8 - 7/26/2015

A Few Good Men
A Few Good Men
6/17 - 6/28/2015

Pump Boys and Dinettes
Pump Boys and Dinettes
5/27 - 6/7/2015

August: Osage County
August: Osage County
11/29 - 12/9/2012


AUGUST OSAGE COUNTY November 29-Dec 9th |Fletcher Opera Theater This 2008 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning masterpiece is a grand, gripping new play which ...

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