WHAT’S ON

BOEING BOEING
June 13-24th | Kennedy Theatre
Fasten Your Seat Belts. Boeing-Boeing coming for a landing at the Kennedy Theatre! In Broadway’s first class comedy, an architect living in Paris has been successfully juggling three flight attendant fiancées with his housekeeper reluctantly playing romantic air-traffic controller as they fly in and out of his swank bachelor pad. But when an old school pal visits, things get rather turbulent. Schedules change, flights are delayed and chaos ensues in this hilarious whirl of mayhem and matchmaking.

RACE
July 25-Aug 5th | Kennedy Theatre
From the writer of Oleanna and Glengarry Glen Ross.When a wealthy white man is charged with a crime against a black woman, a multi-racial law firm is offered the chance to defend him.  Perception is everything in this smart, biting and funny expose on modern racial relations.

OH, WHAT A NIGHT 2
August 31st-Sept 2nd | Fletcher Opera Theatre
Come celebrate Broadway with our annual concert event featuring a whole new crop of songs from all the hottest shows on Broadway that are “too big” for us to produce at Hot Summer Nights!  You can expect songs from Jersey Boys, The Book Of Mormon, Wicked, Les Mis, Jesus Christ Superstar and so much more…starring all your favorite stars from Raleigh and New York!!!

AUGUST OSAGE COUNTY
November 29-Dec 9th | Fletcher Opera Theatre
This 2008 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning masterpiece is a grand, gripping new play which tells the story of the Westons, a large extended clan that comes together at their rural Oklahoma homestead when the alcoholic patriarch disappears. Forced to confront unspoken truths and astonishing secrets, the family must also contend with Violet, a pill-popping, deeply unsettled grandmother at the center of this storm.

DAMES AT SEA
July 5-15th | Kennedy Theatre
In this toe-tapping uproarious musical comedy, a group of performers are preparing for their upcoming show, Dames At Sea.  Right before the show is to open on Broadway, the theatre is sold and the troupe of actors and dancers need to find a new venue. With they’re gumption and ‘the show must go on attitude’, they find a way to perform their show on a ship docked in the local port. The Diva gets sea-sick, the ingenue earns her chance to become a star!

AVENUE Q
August 15-19th | Fletcher Opera Theatre
Written by The Book Of Mormon’s Robert Lopez, thisTony-winning musical Avenue Q is a hilarious and heartfelt story of a bright-eyed college grad who comes to New York with big dreams and little money. He can only afford to live on Avenue Q but—good news!—his neighbors turn out to be a remarkably funny bunch of characters.

SOUVENIR
October 3-14th | Kennedy Theatre
Lisa Jolley stars as the legendary incapable coloratura Florence Foster Jenkins in this new comedy with music.  Jenkins was a prominent heiress who believed that she understood better than anyone else how to properly sing.  In this bittersweet comedy of recollection, her ‘longtime accompanist’ recalls lovingly what it was like to play along for so many years.