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Photo: First Look At Kyla Stone As Anya In ANASTASIA On Tourby BWW Staff - Broadway
(10/19/2021) - BroadwayWorld has a first look at Kyla Stone as Anya in the non-equity National Tour of ANASTASIA!
Photos: Get A First Look At The New Cast Of RENT On Tourby BWW Staff - Broadway
(10/18/2021) - BroadwayWorld has a first look at the new cast of the RENT 25th Anniversary Farewell Non-Equity Tour, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning landmark rock musical written by Jonathan Larson.
Learn More About the Peacock Performing Arts Center in Hayesville!by Caroline Sposto - Raleigh
(6/20/2021) - Hayesville, North Carolina is a charming, historic, mountain town with a population of less than 400. Anchored by an old town square, it offers the sort of attractive shops and eateries one might expect to find in this type of scenic, Sunday drive destination. But just a few blocks from Main Street, Hayesville holds an unusual surprise––The Peacock Performing Arts Center, a venue that looks as it if had been plucked from the arts district of a large metropolitan city.
Photos & Video: EVITA Opens Tonight at Burning Coal Theatreby Chloe Rabinowitz - Raleigh
(6/17/2021) - Evita, presented by Burning Coal Theatre and directed by Jerome Davis, will run June 17 – 27, 2021 at Dorothea Dix Park – 1030 Richardson Drive, Raleigh (outdoors!).
Photo Flash: THE MOUNTAINTOP Heads Into Final Weekend at Raleigh Little Theatreby A.A. Cristi - Raleigh
(6/16/2021) - Raleigh Little Theatre concludes its 2020-21 season with Katori Hall’s “The Mountaintop,” running June 10-19 in RLT’s outdoor Louise “Scottie” Stephenson Amphitheatre. The production is sponsored by North State Bank and features the directorial debut of Phillip Bernard Smith.
Photo Flash: First Look at RLT's THE LAST FIVE YEARS Concertby Stephi Wild - Raleigh
(4/15/2021) - Raleigh Little Theatre presents a concert-style production of 'The Last Five Years.' This concert version of Jason Robert Brown's Drama Desk Award-winning musical features six musicians from the Raleigh Symphony Orchestra.
Photo Flash: Raleigh Little Theater Presents A NUMBERby A.A. Cristi - Raleigh
(3/5/2021) - “A Number” is a beguiling psychological thriller that blends topical scientific speculation with a stunning portrait of the relationship between fathers and their sons.
Photo Flash: Raleigh Little Theatre Presents BALLOONACYby A.A. Cristi - Raleigh
(11/9/2020) - Raleigh Little Theatre presents “Balloonacy,” adapted for the stage by Barry Kornhauser. “Balloonacy” will be the first live in-person theatre production at RLT since March and runs select dates November 7-15 in the outdoor Louise “Scottie” Stephenson Amphitheatre. The production is sponsored by First Citizens Bank and directed by Jesse Gephart.
Photo Flash: First Look at JULIUS CAESAR at PlayMakersby Stephi Wild - Raleigh
(3/5/2020) - The Bard's classic play of politics and power hits the stage at PlayMakers for the first time ever. When Julius Caesar's heroic magnetism tips the scale and threatens to undo four centuries of republican rule in Rome, a small band of patriots determine to put things right. But is their “right” any better?
Photos/Video: First Look at KINKY BOOTS at North Carolina Theatreby Stephi Wild - Raleigh
(2/14/2020) - North Carolina Theatre, the region's premier nonprofit professional theatre, presents Kinky Boots, playing February 11-16, 2020 at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Raleigh. Eric Woodall is NC Theatre's producing artistic director, and Broadway performer Nathan Peck directs and choreographs the production.
Photo Flash: EVERYBODY Wants to Cheat Death—Now on Stage at PlayMakersby A.A. Cristi - Raleigh
(1/22/2020) - PlayMakers Repertory Company proudly presents “Everybody,” the award-winning, Pulitzer Prize finalist comedy that asks us to consider: What is a life well lived? Directed by Orlando Pabotoy in his PlayMakers debut, the production runs from January 22 to February 9, 2020.
Photo Flash: Take a Look at Production Photos From RAGTIME at PlayMakers Repertory Companyby Chloe Rabinowitz - Raleigh
(11/21/2019) - PlayMakers Repertory Company presents Zi Alikhan's innovative staging of Ragtime, the musical by Terrance McNally, Stephen Flaherty, and Lynn Ahrens. Ragtime stars Hamilton's Fergie L. Philippe and Theatre Raleigh's Lauren Kennedy and began previews last night (Nov 20). With press opening on Saturday, November 23 at 8:00pm, the show runs through December 15.
Photo Flash: PlayMakers Presents DAIRYLANDby A.A. Cristi - Raleigh
(10/21/2019) - PlayMakers Repertory Company presents 'Dairyland,' a world premiere comedy by Heidi Armbruster. This whimsical, heartfelt tale of one woman's journey from farm to table and table to farm is directed by Vivienne Benesch, and runs from October 16 to November 3, 2019.
Photo Flash: PlayMakers Repertory Company Presents Nambi E. Kelley's NATIVE SONby A.A. Cristi - Raleigh
(9/11/2019) - PlayMakers Repertory Company proudly opens its 2019/20 Mainstage season with Nambi E. Kelley's powerful and heart-stopping adaptation of Richard Wright's “Native Son”. Directed by Colette Robert, and featuring original music by G. Clausen, the production runs from September 11 to 29, 2019.
Parkway Playhouse Presents: AMELIEby A.A. Cristi - Raleigh
(7/23/2019) - Amélie, the fourth production in Parkway Playhouse's mainstage season, will open this weekend on Saturday, July 27th. Directed by Dwight Chiles, this innovative production features beautiful music, dazzling choreography, and a story unlike any you have seen before! The cast includes: Christine Caldemeyer, Dwight Chiles, Collin Eten, William Ezzell, Jane Hallstrom, Annelise Henry, Tabitha Judy, Kristen Livengood, Dylan Renken, Kai'ana Stella, Hunter Taylor, Shelby Tyler, and Roberta Whiteside. Amélie, the fourth production in Parkway Playhouse's mainstage season, will open this weekend on Saturday, July 27th. Directed by Dwight Chiles, this innovative production features beautiful music, dazzling choreography, and a story unlike any you have seen before! The cast includes: Christine Caldemeyer, Dwight Chiles, Collin Eten, William Ezzell, Jane Hallstrom, Annelise Henry, Tabitha Judy, Kristen Livengood, Dylan Renken, Kai'ana Stella, Hunter Taylor, Shelby Tyler, and Roberta Whiteside.
Photo Flash: Meet the Characters of MAN OF LA MANCHA at Triad Stageby Stephi Wild - Raleigh
(5/21/2019) - Triad Stage is closing its 18th season with the classic Broadway musical Man of La Mancha. Hear the wild winds of fortune. Your destiny calls and adventure awaits. A poet, thrown into prison, fears the Inquisitor, but the inmates demand their own kind of justice. The poet begins to tell a story of a mad Knight determined to achieve his impossible dreams. Join the quest and reach the unreachable star. Man of La Mancha runs April 28 - May 26, 2019. Opening Night is Friday, May 3.
Photo Flash: PlayMakers Presents HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVEby A.A. Cristi - Raleigh
(4/3/2019) - PlayMakers Repertory Company is proud to present the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, "How I Learned to Drive" by Tony Award®-nominated playwright Paula Vogel. The production, directed by Lee Sunday Evans, will run from April 3 to 21, 2019.
Photo Flash: First Look at JUMP at PlayMakers Repertory Companyby Stephi Wild - Raleigh
(1/23/2019) - PlayMakers Repertory Company is proud to be the first theatre to participate in the National New Play Network rolling world premiere of "Jump," by emerging playwright Charly Evon Simpson. The production, directed by Whitney White in her PlayMakers debut, will run from January 23 to February 10, 2019 before continuing on to three additional theatres in 2019.
Photo Flash: First Look at BEWILDERNESS at PlayMakers Repertory Companyby Stephi Wild - Raleigh
(1/9/2019) - PlayMakers Repertory Company proudly presents "Bewilderness," a PlayMakers commission and the second production in its 2018/19 PRC2 Kenan Stage series. Written and directed by Zack Fine, "Bewilderness" invites us into the upside-down, creatively chaotic world of a playwright inspired by and obsessed with the great American philosopher, Henry David Thoreau. In this madcap comedy, the famous cabin on Walden Pond plays host not only to Thoreau, but also to his brother, his mother, Ralph Waldo Emerson, some singing doctors, and a wisecracking woodchuck.
Photo Flash: First Look at NC Theatre's IN THE HEIGHTSby Stephi Wild - Raleigh
(10/17/2018) - North Carolina Theatre, the region's premiere nonprofit professional theatre, presents its first production of the 2018-19 season, Lin-Manuel Miranda's In the Heights, playing Oct. 16-21 at Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Raleigh.
Photo Flash: PlayMakers Presents Dominique Morisseau's SKELETON CREWby A.A. Cristi - Raleigh
(10/10/2018) - PlayMakers Repertory Company proudly presents Dominique Morisseau's 'Skeleton Crew,' the searing dramatic final installment in her Detroit Trilogy. Directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton, the production runs from October 10 to 28, 2018.
Photo Flash: Parkway Playhouse Prepares for GODSPELLby A.A. Cristi - Raleigh
(7/26/2018) - Godspell, is a musical that will begin showing at Parkway Playhouse on July 28 and run until August 11. Directed by Dwight Chiles, Parkway Playhouse's production features Allen Law, Briar Boggs, Maximillian Koger, Hunter Taylor, Zacary Landolt, Martine Rose, Candice Dickinson, Christine Caldemeyer, Sam Lebrocq, and Heather Bronson. Performances are on Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm and Sundays at 3pm through August 11th.
Photo Flash: First Look at NC Theatre's NEWSIES Starring Jason Gotayby Julie Musbach - Broadway
(7/25/2018) - North Carolina Theatre presents Disney's NEWSIES, playing July 24-29 at Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Raleigh.
Photo Flash: First Look at BIG FISH at Kennedy Theatreby Stephi Wild - Raleigh
(7/17/2018) - Based on the book by North Carolina's own Daniel Wallace and the hit movie - Big Fish tells the story of a father with incredible, larger-than-life stories and his son who is determined to find the truth behind his father's epic tales.
BWW Interview: THE BOOK OF MORMON'S Kayla Pecchioni Talks About Playing the Straight Man Amidst Outrageous Comedy in Advance of DPAC Showby Lauren Van Hemert - Raleigh
(7/9/2018) - When Kayla Pecchioni first saw Tony Award-winning THE BOOK OF MORMON about six years ago, she didn't quite get it. 'It's so funny when I saw the show I actually could not grasp the message,' she says. 'I was so overwhelmed by how in your face it was, I was like, 'what is this show, what is going on,' I just had no clue what it was about.' So, when she got the call to come audition for the role of Nabalungi, the principal female lead, she had some trepidation about it. 'I was like I don't know if I can say the things that they say, do the things they do,' she says. 'And I talked to a couple of my friends who were in the show on Broadway and they were just like 'no, this is really, to quote the show, going to change your life.' And it has every day since.'
Photo Flash: North Carolina Theatre Stages PIPPINby Julie Musbach - Raleigh
(7/9/2018) - North Carolina Theatre Conservatory, North Carolina Theatre's flagship training program offering professional instruction in acting, voice and dance for ages three to adult, is excited to bring to the stage its production of Pippin, July 6-8 at the A.J. Fletcher Opera Theater at Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Raleigh.
BWW Interview: Mo Gaffney Talks Feminists, Funny Women, and the Relevancy of PARALLEL LIVES 35 Years Laterby Lauren Van Hemert - Raleigh
(6/11/2018) - In the opening scene of PARALLEL LIVES, two Supreme Beings plan the beginning of the world with the relish of two slightly sadistic suburban wives decorating a living room. From this moment, the audience is whisked through a series of skits that catapult them into the outrageous universe of comediennes Kathy Najimy and Maureen (Mo) Gaffney. Najimy and Gaffney first performed PARALLEL LIVES in 1983 at The Old Town Theatre in San Diego. Six years later, they opened the show off-Broadway at The Westside Theatre in New York and in 1991, PARALLEL LIVES became an HBO special. Later this month, Emily Levinstone and Keith Liles step into Kathy and Mo's shoes for the opening of PARALLEL LIVES at Burning Coal Theatre as part of the North Carolina Women's Theatre Festival. Judy Long, who is making her Raleigh directorial debut, says the show covers themes that are relevant today as they were 35 years ago, including women's rights, LGBTQ rights, and acceptance. Gaffney and Long opened up about the relevancy of PARALLEL LIVES 35 years later.
Photo Flash: A NIGHT WITH JANIS JOPLIN At North Carolina Theatreby A.A. Cristi - Raleigh
(5/4/2018) - North Carolina Theatre is proud to announce the addition of a new show to the 2017-18 season on stage at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts. This season will feature A NIGHT WITH Janis Joplin during an extended run in the A.J. Fletcher Opera Theater, May 4-20, 2018.
Photo Flash: First Look at Playmakers Rep's A TRAINby Julie Musbach - Raleigh
(4/26/2018) - PlayMakers Repertory Company proudly closes its 2017/18 season with Anne Torsiglieri's "'A' Train," also the final production of its PRC2second-stage series. Part irreverent musical, part oral history project, entirely a magical journey into the heartbeat of a different way of being. Torsiglieri plays multiple roles in this adventurous exploration of what it is to be human.
Photo Flash: PlayMakers Rep Tackles Moliere's TARTUFFEby Julie Musbach - Raleigh
(2/5/2018) - PlayMakers Repertory Company proudly presents Moliere's "Tartuffe," adapted by David Ball. The production is directed by Saheem Ali, in his PlayMakers directorial debut, and runs from February 3 to March 11, 2018 in rotating repertory with Lucas Hnath's "The Christians".
Photo Flash: First Look at PlayMakers Repertory Company's THE CHRISTIANSby Stephi Wild - Raleigh
(2/1/2018) - PlayMakers Repertory Company presents "The Christians" by 2017 Tony-nominated playwright, Lucas Hnath. The production, which is directed by Triad Stage founder Preston Lane, runs from February 1 to March 10, 2018 in rotating repertory with the Moliere classic "Tartuffe" (adapted by David Ball).
Photo Coverage: Fall in Love with LOVE LETTERS at NC Theatreby Leah Windahl - Raleigh
(1/18/2018) - NC Theatre presents A.R. Gurney's 1988 play LOVE LETTERS, running January 12th-21st. LOVE LETTERS follows two childhood friends, Melissa and Andy, who stay in contact over fifty years of their lives by writing letters, effectively becoming pen-pals. As Melissa and Andy share the highs and lows of their lives with one another, LOVE LETTERS becomes a story of companionship, friendship, and love.
Photo Flash: A CHRISTMAS CAROL Returns to PlayMakers Repertory Companyby A.A. Cristi - Raleigh
(12/11/2017) - Ray Dooley has been a member of the PlayMakers acting company for nearly thirty years. And it's been over twenty years since he donned a Victorian top hat for that great Christmas classic, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. In this adaption by William Leach, Dooley becomes a master storyteller, embodying Ebenezer Scrooge, Jacob Marley, Tiny Tim and a lifetime of Christmas memories in the soul-stirring and heartwarming tale of reclamation, charity, and love.
Photo Flash: First Look at DOT at PlayMakers Repby Stephi Wild - Raleigh
(11/22/2017) - It's Thanksgiving week, and PlayMakers is kicking off the holidays with Dot by Colman Domingo. This holiday season, the Shealys dare you not to laugh as they reconnect around their aging mother in the heart of a West Philly neighborhood, where they find that losing your memory and losing your mind are two completely different things.
Photo Flash: First Look at PINKALICIOUS at Flat Rock Playhouseby Stephi Wild - Raleigh
(11/13/2017) - Pinkalicious is playing now through November 19th and Flat Rock Playhouse. Pinkalicious can't stop eating pink cupcakes despite warnings from her parents. Her pink indulgence lands her at the doctor's office with Pinkititis, an affliction that turns her pink from head to toe a dream come true for this pink loving enthusiast. But when her hue goes too far, only Pinkalicious can figure out a way to get out of this pink predicament. Based on The New York Times best selling picture book.
Photo Flash: First Look at Flat Rock Playhouse's DIAL M FOR MURDERby Julie Musbach - Raleigh
(10/28/2017) - Halloween is just around the corner and the Playhouse is celebrating the season with the opening of a sophisticated, chillingly sinister thriller that will hold audiences spellbound with suspense!
Photo Flash: SENSE AND SENSIBILITY Opens at PlayMakersby BWW News Desk - Raleigh
(10/19/2017) - PlayMakers Repertory Company's 'Sense and Sensibility' by Kate Hamill, opened last night, October 18.
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Some Like it Hot
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Murder on the Orient Express
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A Chorus Line
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