Regional Theatres in North Carolina?

I live in Durham, North Carolina (unfortunately), and for one thing, regional theatre is hard to come by-but the fact they're living in High Point is gonna make it even harder.

I could reccomend to them Man Bites Dog Theatre in Durham, but it is about an hour and a half away...however they do some great stuff. There's also the Carolina Theatre, but they don't do too many performances nowadays--they usually just have guests drop in and concerts every so often.

In terms of touring, there's the DPAC (Durham Performing Arts Center), which I have to say is very nice. There's also the Progress Energy Center in Raleigh (but that's probably closer to a three hour trip) which is alright, but I would say the venues you've listed are basically about all there is. North Carolina isn't very cultured.

Try PMing Captain Hook. He also lives in North Carolina and could probably give some good information. I've only lived here two and a half years-moved from New Jersey-whereas Captain Hook has lived here a lot longer and could probably give better and more constructive advice. Hope this helps!

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North Carolina Shakespeare is right smack in High Point, NC.

The Cultural Center in Greensboro has several community theatre companies: Playmakers, Fringe Festival, annual Wizard of Oz, etc.

But the best regional theatre closest to High Point, in my opinion, is Triad Stage in downtown Greensboro. Their productions are outstanding, they cast out of New York as well as locally, and they just opened a new cabaret/smaller theatre space. DEFINITELY check out TRIAD STAGE (http://www.triadstage.org).

Of course there are the college theatre productions, too (High Point University, UNC-G, Greensboro College, Guilford College, A&T, GTCC, Elon, Meredith College). UNC-G also has its Concert/Lecture series where performing arts companies/entities tour to perform at the college for one performance. In the past four years Broadway-wise, they had concerts with Patti LuPone, Chita Rivera, and Betty Buckley.

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