NC Black Rep: International Black Theatre Festival: A Motown Celebration with Chester Gregory

Scales Fine Arts Center 1834 Wake Forest Road, Winston-Salem, NC, United States

Broadway legend Chester Gregory leads this epic Motown bash. Get ready to groove as Chester performs your favorite classics from the Motown era like no other. Dive into his heartfelt stories of meeting and working with icons like Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, and the man who started it all, Berry Gordy. This isn’t just any show – it’s a full-on party packed with tunes that’ll have you dancing in your seat! You definitely don’t want to miss this explosion of tunes and tales. Light up your night with this unforgettable celebration! (Musical, General Audience)

$60

Arts for All: 4th Annual Theatre on the Beach: Oedipus is Dead

The Beach at Jetton Park 19924 Jetton Rd, Cornelius, NC, United States

This is a contemporary audience-friendly, comedic retelling of Sophocles' Antigone. The production is family-friendly and will appeal to both Greek theatre buffs and those who are not at all familiar with the source material. We will also have audience games and prizes. Please bring a chair or beach blanket and feel free to bring a picnic.

Davidson Community Players: Ripcord

Duke Family Performance Hall 207 Faculty Drive Knobloch Campus Center, Davidson, NC, United States

Ripcord, award-winning writer David Lindsay-Abaire’s hilarious and moving story of disgruntled roommates. But instead of students in a college dorm, these roommates are two senior women at an assisted living facility. A seemingly small show that erupts with unexpected theatricality, Ripcord will fill the Duke with the pain and wonder of finding harmony at any stage of life.

$18 – $32

Matthews Playhouse: Young Frankenstein

Matthews Playhouse for the Performing Arts 100 East McDowell St., Matthews, NC, United States

From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation, The Producers, comes this monster new musical comedy. The comedy genius, Mel Brooks, adapts his legendarily funny film into a brilliant stage creation – Young Frankenstein! Grandson of the infamous Victor Frankenstein, Frederick Frankenstein (pronounced "Fronk-en-steen") inherits his family's estate in Transylvania. With the help of a hunchbacked sidekick, Igor (pronounced "Eye-gore"), and a leggy lab assistant, Inga (pronounced normally), Frederick finds himself in the mad scientist shoes of his ancestors. "It's alive!" he exclaims as he brings to life a creature to rival his grandfather's. Eventually, of course, the monster escapes and hilarity continuously abounds.

$18 – $26

Montford Park Players: Henry V

Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre 92 Gay Street, Asheville, NC, United States

Henry V begins with Henry’s transformation from a wild and carefree youth into a wise and inspiring leader. The play takes us through the events leading up to the famous Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years’ War between England and France. Henry V explores themes of leadership, patriotism, and the complexities of war. It’s a thrilling and patriotic play that showcases Henry’s remarkable growth and the challenges he faces as a king.

Free

Big Dawg Productions: The Real Inspector Hound

Ruth & Bucky Stein Theatre at Thalian Hall 310 Chestnut Street Thalian Hall, Wilmington, NC, United States

The Real Inspector Hound is a mashed up spoof of all things Agatha Christie – an isolated setting, a dead body, and some very eccentric characters up to no good. Two theatre critics reviewing the latest murder mystery to hit the stage provide side-splitting commentaries on the actors and the plot. They soon become entangled in deviously dastardly doings. No one is who they seem to be, onstage or off. This classic absurdist comedy, part farce and part whodunnit, is sure to delight fans of Clouseau, Holmes, Poirot, the Marx Brothers and Monty Python.

$36

Raleigh Little Theatre: Our Town (Multilingual)

Gaddy-Goodwin Teaching Theatre 301 Pogue Street, Raleigh, NC, United States

Thornton Wilder’s iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning play is reimagined for the 21st century. Our Town depicts the small town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, through three acts: “Daily Life,” “Love and Marriage” and “Death and Eternity.” With new layers of language and culture, Our Town expands to encompass everyone in a quintessentially American – and human – story. Presented as the culmination of RLT’s 2024 Teens on Stage and Teens Backstage summer program.

$6 – $16

Beautiful

Thalian Hall 310 Chestnut St., Wilmington, NC, United States
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Matthews Playhouse: Young Frankenstein

Matthews Playhouse for the Performing Arts 100 East McDowell St., Matthews, NC, United States

From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation, The Producers, comes this monster new musical comedy. The comedy genius, Mel Brooks, adapts his legendarily funny film into a brilliant stage creation – Young Frankenstein! Grandson of the infamous Victor Frankenstein, Frederick Frankenstein (pronounced "Fronk-en-steen") inherits his family's estate in Transylvania. With the help of a hunchbacked sidekick, Igor (pronounced "Eye-gore"), and a leggy lab assistant, Inga (pronounced normally), Frederick finds himself in the mad scientist shoes of his ancestors. "It's alive!" he exclaims as he brings to life a creature to rival his grandfather's. Eventually, of course, the monster escapes and hilarity continuously abounds.

$18 – $26

Arts for All: 4th Annual Theatre on the Beach: Oedipus is Dead

The Beach at Jetton Park 19924 Jetton Rd, Cornelius, NC, United States

This is a contemporary audience-friendly, comedic retelling of Sophocles' Antigone. The production is family-friendly and will appeal to both Greek theatre buffs and those who are not at all familiar with the source material. We will also have audience games and prizes. Please bring a chair or beach blanket and feel free to bring a picnic.

Davidson Community Players: Ripcord

Duke Family Performance Hall 207 Faculty Drive Knobloch Campus Center, Davidson, NC, United States

Ripcord, award-winning writer David Lindsay-Abaire’s hilarious and moving story of disgruntled roommates. But instead of students in a college dorm, these roommates are two senior women at an assisted living facility. A seemingly small show that erupts with unexpected theatricality, Ripcord will fill the Duke with the pain and wonder of finding harmony at any stage of life.

$18 – $32

Matthews Playhouse: Young Frankenstein

Matthews Playhouse for the Performing Arts 100 East McDowell St., Matthews, NC, United States

From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation, The Producers, comes this monster new musical comedy. The comedy genius, Mel Brooks, adapts his legendarily funny film into a brilliant stage creation – Young Frankenstein! Grandson of the infamous Victor Frankenstein, Frederick Frankenstein (pronounced "Fronk-en-steen") inherits his family's estate in Transylvania. With the help of a hunchbacked sidekick, Igor (pronounced "Eye-gore"), and a leggy lab assistant, Inga (pronounced normally), Frederick finds himself in the mad scientist shoes of his ancestors. "It's alive!" he exclaims as he brings to life a creature to rival his grandfather's. Eventually, of course, the monster escapes and hilarity continuously abounds.

$18 – $26