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PURE THEATRE

134 Cannon Street
Charleston, SC 29403

McNeal by Ayad Akhtar
McNeal by Ayad Akhtar
1/15 - 2/7/2026


SOUTHEAST REGIONAL PREMIERE January 15 - February 7, 2026 Directed by Sharon Graci  Featuring David Whalen, Camille Lowman, Joy Vandervort-Cobb, Sylvia Jefferies, and Journey Townsend ...



BWW Q&A: Sam Helfrich on HOUSE OF MCQUEEN at The Mansion at Hudson Yards


by Joshua Wright - August 26, 2025

House of McQueen is a bold Off-Broadway play illuminating the life and legacy of visionary designer Alexander McQueen told through his daring, defiant, and unorthodox lens....

BWW Q&A: Sam Helfrich on HOUSE OF MCQUEEN at The Mansion at Hudson Yards


by Joshua Wright - August 26, 2025

House of McQueen is a bold Off-Broadway play illuminating the life and legacy of visionary designer Alexander McQueen told through his daring, defiant, and unorthodox lens....

Review: SHREK THE MUSICAL at The Pocket Community Theatre


by Theresa Bertram - August 17, 2025

What did our critic think of SHREK THE MUSICAL at The Pocket Community Theatre?...

Review: AND THEN THERE WERE NONE at His Majesty's Theatre


by David Bravos - June 15, 2025

There’s certainly a lot to be said for classics. First published in 1939, Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None is one of the highest selling books of all time, and one of Christie’s finest works. Since its stage adaptation in 1945, the plot has been tweaked and then returned, but even in 2025,...

Review: GHOSTS, starring Victoria Smurfit and Callum Scott Howells


by Cindy Marcolina - April 17, 2025

Victoria Smurfit and Callum Scott Howells are the tragic mother-son duo in an exciting, tense, suspenseful adaptation. Owen shifts the script and makes this classic all about domestic abuse and the power of upper-class disdain. Rachel O’Riordan’s production is a masterclass in distilling tension an...

Review: A BRIEF CASE OF CRAZY, Riverside Studios


by Cheryl Markosky - April 11, 2025

Just three people and a briefcase. No fancy-pants CGI, no video wizardry, no Marvel-like special effects. Just three people and a briefcase is all it takes for Skedaddle Theatre (definitely a company to watch), in association with Shoddy Theatre, to transport you on a riotous and gratifying journey....

Review: MULTIPLE BAD THINGS at Sydney Opera House


by Kym Vaitiekus - January 08, 2025

REVIEW: Kym Vaitiekus shares his thoughts on MULTIPLE BAD THINGS...

Interview: 'It's Surreal': Vasco Emauz on Making His West End Debut in BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL


by Sarah OHara - January 03, 2025

BroadwayWorld sat down with Vasco Emauz to find out more about Back To The Future: The Musical and how it feels to making his West End debut as Marty McFly....

Interview: 'It's Surreal': Vasco Emauz on Making His West End Debut in BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL


by Sarah OHara - January 03, 2025

BroadwayWorld sat down with Vasco Emauz to find out more about Back To The Future: The Musical and how it feels to making his West End debut as Marty McFly....

Theatre Ariel Returns With Philadelphia Premiere Of Maya Arad Yasur's AMSTERDAM in November


by Blair Ingenthron - October 27, 2024

This November, Theatre Ariel will produce its first Mainstage production since 2009 with the Philadelphia premiere of Amsterdam, by award-winning Israeli playwright Maa Arad Yasur, translated by Eran Edry. ...

Past Shows

Eureka Day
Eureka Day
11/6 - 12/6/2025


The Eureka Day School in Berkeley, California, is a bastion of progressive ideals: representation, acceptance, social justice. In weekly meetings, its five board members develop ...

Covenant by York Walker
Covenant by York Walker
10/2 - 10/25/2025


SOUTHEAST REGIONAL PREMIERE October 2 - 25, 2025 Director: Sharon Graci Featuring Dexter Mitchell, Tonya Nicole, Zania Cummings, Brandi Smalls, and Trinity Griffin   Tickets:  ...

Takes All Kinds
Takes All Kinds
9/12 - 9/13/2025


Based on immersive reporting—from school board showdowns in Florida, grassroots organizers in Atlanta, barbershops in Las Vegas, deprogrammers of violent extremists in Missouri—experience the moving, ...

ZELDA IN THE BACKYARD
ZELDA IN THE BACKYARD
7/24 - 8/16/2025


When Libby inherits a wrecked 1961 Rolls Royce, she sets off on a journey to reassemble the car and pieces of the past her father ...

Pleasure Never Lies
Pleasure Never Lies
4/10 - 5/3/2025


From Broadway's Marshall Hagins & Brad Moranz comes PLEASURE NEVER LIES, a new musical set at the intersection of song & science.  When brilliant ornithology ...

Atwater
Atwater
10/19 - 11/18/2023


Atwater By Fred Thompson Directed by Sharon Graci World Premiere  October - November 2023   Featuring Joy Vandervort-Cobb*, Brannen Daugherty*, Scott Pattison*, Addison Dent*, Shivam ...

The Chinese Lady
The Chinese Lady
8/24 - 9/23/2023


Southeast Regional Premiere Directed by Rodney Lee Rogers Featuring Anna Lin Afong Moy is fourteen years old when she’s brought to the United States from ...

Septima
Septima
3/9 - 4/1/2023


It’s the day of Septima Clark’s 125 birthday. Septima, with the help of some old friends, reflects not only on her work as a Civil ...

Hangmen
Hangmen
1/12 - 2/4/2023


It’s 1965, and execution by hanging has just been abolished in the United Kingdom. Naturally, all of Oldham, Northern England wants to know what Harry, ...

Clyde's
Clyde's
10/27 - 11/19/2022


Creating the perfect sandwich is the shared quest of the formerly incarcerated kitchen staff of Clydes, a truck stop cafe. Even as the shops mischievous ...

A Hidden Life
A Hidden Life
8/18 - 9/10/2022


Her name is Adrienne (Audrey) Laframboise Filion Lavoie. She has lived a life. Four actors share the remarkable and quiet brilliance of one womans life ...

Mlima's Tale
Mlima's Tale
6/16 - 6/25/2022


A magnificent elephant is trapped by the underground international ivory market. As he follows a trail littered by a history of greed, Mlima takes us ...

A Doll's House, Part 2
12/7 - 12/22/2018


Lucas Hnath....

Father Comes Home From The Wars Parts 1, 2 & 3


Offered his freedom if he joins his master in the ranks of the Confederacy, Hero, a slave, must choose whether to leave the woman and ...

OUR MOTHER'S BRIEF AFFAIR
3/10 - 4/1/2017


Richard Greenberg; dir: Lynne Meadow....

TBD
5/3 - 6/1/2013


Capitol Theatre: -...

The Mountaintop
3/29 - 4/20/2013


PURE Theatre: - Katori Hall; dir: Sharon Graci....


PURE Theatre: - Stephen Adly Guirgis....

TBA
5/3 - 6/12/2012


Imaginists Theatre Collective: -...


Sarah Ruhl's In The Next Room or The Vibrator Play will be presented by The San Pedro Playhouse at the Cellar Thetre as part of ...

Behanding in Spokane
1/6 - 2/4/2012

Waffle Haus Christmas
12/9 - 12/23/2011

Next Fall
11/4 - 11/26/2011

Time Stands Still
9/16 - 10/8/2011


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Videos


The Great Gatsby in South Carolina The Great Gatsby
Peace Center (3/31 - 4/5)
Hell's Kitchen in South Carolina Hell's Kitchen
Peace Center (2/10 - 2/15)
McNeal by Ayad Akhtar in South Carolina McNeal by Ayad Akhtar
PURE Theatre (1/15 - 2/7)
Candlelight Series: A Festive Fanfare in South Carolina Candlelight Series: A Festive Fanfare
Risen Christ Lutheran Church (12/16 - 12/16)
Swan Lake: International Ballet Stars in Liberty, SC! On March 12, 2026 in South Carolina Swan Lake: International Ballet Stars in Liberty, SC! On March 12, 2026
Pickens County Performing Arts Center (3/12 - 3/12)
Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors
Electric City Playhouse (10/16 - 10/25)
Nuncrackers: The Nunsense Christmas Musical
Electric City Playhouse (12/4 - 12/13)
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