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TheatreFEST 2026 tickets are now on sale.

TheatreFEST 2026
May 28-June 21

Raleigh’s hub for summer theatre. Connecting theatre-makers, companies, educators and patrons alike – all in the celebration and advancement of live theatre.

About TheatreFEST
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Past Events

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Producing Series, Studio Series, Workshops and other important dates.

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Titmus Theatre

Oscar Wilde’s Trivial Comedy for Serious People.

Best friends Jack and Algernon each adopt fictional identities to escape social obligations. Jack invents a brother named Ernest, while Algernon creates an invalid friend named Bunbury. The plot unfolds with mistaken identities, romantic entanglements, clever wordplay, and humorous social commentary.

A Producing Series production.

About Earnest
Importance of Being Earnest show graphic
Mapping Instincts. Neuroscience at PLAY with the Mind and Body. Show graphic.

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Apr. 16-19

A production devised by the company
Directed by Mia L. Self

In 1998, the neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp published a book classifying seven primary affective systems or, more simply, emotional developmental states. Mapping Instincts is our collective exploration of these concepts at PLAY in our bodies and minds.

About Mapping Instincts
The Prom show graphic.

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Stewart Theatre

Book and Lyrics by Chad Beguelin
Book by Bob Martin
Music by Matthew Sklar

Welcome to Indiana where the biggest, brassiest hearts on Broadway run roughshod over small-town ideologies as Angie, Trent, Barry, and Dee Dee attempt to deliver a romantic and inclusive once-in-a-lifetime high school dance for Emma and her closeted girlfriend in this Drama Desk Award winning musical.

A Producing Series production.

About The Prom
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Titmus Theatre

By William Shakespeare

He’s a romantic and a Montague. She’s a Capulet and follows the rules. He was in love with Rosaline, until he saw her. She was prepared to wed another, until she saw him. They were destined to be together. They were never meant for each other. Their stars aligned and then tore them apart.

A Producing Series production.

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Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre

QuickSCRIPTS is a night of 10-minute plays written, directed and rehearsed by theatre makers in record time.

A Studio Series production

About QuickSCRIPTS
QuickSCRIPTS show graphic

Jan. 29-Feb. 1
Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre

by Aaron Posner
Sort of adapted from THE SEAGULL by Anton Chekhov
Directed by Danica Jackson

In this irreverent, contemporary, and darkly funny adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, Aaron Posner stages a timeless battle between young and old, past and present, in search of the true meaning of the creation- and necessity- of art.

A Studio Series production.

About Stupid F##king Bird
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A seagull sits on a ledge overlooking the sea and squawks.

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Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre

2025 Creative Artist Winner written by Alexandra Weld 

A research assistant returns from a voyage into the forest and finds that he and his companion need variety in their lives. They witness some abnormal events, and what they do find out is both vague and unsettling. The arrival of a third party presenting uncomfortable moral questions throws them off. They must then decide; what do they value? What is right and wrong, and does it really matter during a nuclear apocalypse?

A Studio Series production

About Forest
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A foggy image of a forest, with the words The Forest Night.

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Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre

Students will read excepts from select books in an evening of live staged readings

Each fall, the NC State Libraries partners with University Theatre to create an original performance of Banned and Challenged books. A company of eight individuals will be charged with creating an evening of excerpts from books that personally impact their lives in different ways.

A Studio Series production

Banned Books Onstage logo. A collaboration with University Theatre and NC State University Libraries.