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Burning Coal Theatre Company Presents: WAIT TIL YOU SEE THIS! 2025: Forgive Us, Gustavito

Burning Coal Theatre 224 Polk St, Raleigh

Burning Coal Theatre Company presents Wait Til You See This! 2025, its Second Stage Series of collaborations with emerging artists. This year’s productions include Ride The Cyclone (written by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell, directed by Jireh Ijeoma; co-production with Pure Life Theatre), The Mansion of Many Apartments (written and directed by Bronwen Carson), Sea…

$10

Rhythm & Reels – King Garbage Concert

Apex Nature Park Amphitheatre 2600 Evans Rd, Apex

Join us on select Saturday evenings at the Apex Nature Park Amphitheatre for a night of music and movies under the stars. Our 2025 music lineup boasts a variety of genres from nu-funk to garage punk, and features several bands from Western North Carolina! So come groove with GRAMMY® Award-winning band King Garbage, let loose…

Free
Peter and the Starcatcher

Peter and the Starcatcher

Theatre Raleigh Arts Center 6638 Old Wake Forest Road, Raleigh

June 11 - 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 playfully explores the depths of greed and despair... and the bonds of friendship, duty and love. Though not a musical, this play incorporates innovative…

$33 – $52

Burning Coal Theatre Company Presents: WAIT TIL YOU SEE THIS! 2025: Sea Change by Tamara Kissane

Burning Coal Theatre 224 Polk St, Raleigh

Burning Coal Theatre Company presents Wait Til You See This! 2025, its Second Stage Series of collaborations with emerging artists. This year’s productions include Ride The Cyclone (written by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell, directed by Jireh Ijeoma; co-production with Pure Life Theatre), The Mansion of Many Apartments (written and directed by Bronwen Carson), Sea…

$10

Burning Coal Theatre Company Presents: WAIT TIL YOU SEE THIS! 2025: The Mansion of Many Apartments by Bronwen Carson

Burning Coal Theatre 224 Polk St, Raleigh

Burning Coal Theatre Company presents Wait Til You See This! 2025, its Second Stage Series of collaborations with emerging artists. This year’s productions include Ride The Cyclone (written by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell, directed by Jireh Ijeoma; co-production with Pure Life Theatre), The Mansion of Many Apartments (written and directed by Bronwen Carson), Sea…

$10
The Cookout comedy show

The Cookout comedy show

TR Studio 3027 Barrow Drive, Raleigh

The Cookout is BACK, y’all! Get ready for the return of the hottest, Blackest comedy experience of the summer — The Cookout 2025 is firing up the grill and the stage for year two! We're serving up a full plate of side-splitting stand-up, high-energy improv, mouthwatering BBQ vibes, and the unapologetic Black joy you already…

The Color Purple

The Color Purple

Raleigh Little Theatre 301 Pogue Street, Raleigh

This musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel (and the popular 1985 Steven Spielberg film) spotlights Celie, a downtrodden young woman whose personal awakening over the course of 40 years forms the arc of this epic story. With a joyous score featuring jazz, ragtime, gospel, African music and blues, The Color Purple is a…

$31

ciara anais stewart – Artist Talk

Artspace 201 East Davie Street, Raleigh, NC, United States

Join ciara anais stewart and Precious Lovell for a discussion of ciara's solo exhibition on view at Artspace May 2-June 29.Join artist ciara anais stewart for a conversation on resistance, imperialism, and social justice, as she discusses her solo exhibition I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free on view at Artspace…

Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward

Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward

Titmus Theatre at Frank Thompson Hall 2241 Dunn Avenue, Raleigh

Novelist Charles Condomine invites the eccentric medium Madame Arcati to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to gather material for his next book. The scheme backfires when he is haunted by the ghost of his temperamental first wife, Elvira, after the séance. Elvira makes continual attempts to disrupt Charles’s marriage to his second wife,…

$10 – $27

Burning Coal Theatre Company Presents: WAIT TIL YOU SEE THIS! 2025: Sea Change by Tamara Kissane

Burning Coal Theatre 224 Polk St, Raleigh

Burning Coal Theatre Company presents Wait Til You See This! 2025, its Second Stage Series of collaborations with emerging artists. This year’s productions include Ride The Cyclone (written by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell, directed by Jireh Ijeoma; co-production with Pure Life Theatre), The Mansion of Many Apartments (written and directed by Bronwen Carson), Sea…

$10

Burning Coal Theatre Company Presents: WAIT TIL YOU SEE THIS! 2025: The Mansion of Many Apartments by Bronwen Carson

Burning Coal Theatre 224 Polk St, Raleigh

Burning Coal Theatre Company presents Wait Til You See This! 2025, its Second Stage Series of collaborations with emerging artists. This year’s productions include Ride The Cyclone (written by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell, directed by Jireh Ijeoma; co-production with Pure Life Theatre), The Mansion of Many Apartments (written and directed by Bronwen Carson), Sea…

$10
Peter and the Starcatcher

Peter and the Starcatcher

Theatre Raleigh Arts Center 6638 Old Wake Forest Road, Raleigh

June 11 - 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 playfully explores the depths of greed and despair... and the bonds of friendship, duty and love. Though not a musical, this play incorporates innovative…

$33 – $52
The Color Purple

The Color Purple

Raleigh Little Theatre 301 Pogue Street, Raleigh

This musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel (and the popular 1985 Steven Spielberg film) spotlights Celie, a downtrodden young woman whose personal awakening over the course of 40 years forms the arc of this epic story. With a joyous score featuring jazz, ragtime, gospel, African music and blues, The Color Purple is a…

$31

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