 Entertainment
From art fairs to dance festivals,
summer brings out the best of art and entertainment in the Triangle. In 1979,
the American Dance Festival moved its home from Connecticut to establish
permanent residence in Durham. Attracting dancers and dance students from all
over the world, the American Dance Festival brings the best known and most
innovative dancers and choreographers of modern dance to Durham each summer. For
six weeks each year, Durham becomes a world center for dance bringing in more
than two dozen dance companies from all over the globe.
During the summer, the North Carolina
Symphony moves from its winter home at Memorial Auditorium in Raleigh to Regency
Park in Cary to fill the night air with music and merriment.
Alas, summer does not last forever.
Fortunately, the three major universities in the area, Duke,
North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, work to keep our winter nights full of a variety of fine
entertainment: from chamber music to jazz, and toe-tapping musicals to drama.
On the theatrical scene, Raleigh has
one of the country's oldest and most successful community theaters, the Raleigh
Little Theater, which began during the Great Depression as a WPA project. The
North Carolina Theater performs at Memorial Auditorium in downtown Raleigh.
North Carolina State University houses Stewart and Thompson Theatres, and
Theatre in the Park, a resident theatre offering numerous local premieres and
children's programming, performs throughout the year.
Durham hosts several first-run
pre-Broadway productions featuring such stars as Jack Lemmon and Jason Robards.
Chapel Hill has the nationally-recognized Paul Green Theatre, the Playmakers
Repertory Company, and the Laboratory Theatre.
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