2018 Stage Performances
5 Fish, a Goat Head, and a Bag of Money
Pineapple-Shaped Lamps
A brand-new sketch comedy show featuring a hodgepodge mixture of costumes and props unearthed from the dilapidated remains of the many shuttered theaters in the Cape Fear region. Watch as...
A Love Story in Music: Nikoleta Rallis, Soprano & Aza Sydykov, Piano
Wilmington Music Festival
The Wilmington Music Festival will offer a “Love Story in Music” featuring Wrightsville Beach native soprano Nikoleta Rallis and her husband, concert pianist Aza Sydykov. A co-production with Wilmington Music...
Academania: aka I’m Only doing this for Tenure
Ed Wagenseller
A college professor fights his way up the academic food chain in an effort to achieve the status of tenured professor. This comedic musical romp through higher education and the...
Beats & Coffee w/ Langston Hughes III, subterrene
Beats & Coffee, Langston Hughes III
Beats & Coffee is an instrumental music collective from NC that aims to create a platform where producers can showcase their music. Langston Hughes III is a Hip Hop group...
Closing Night Karaoke Costume Dance Party
Your Alter Ego
Are you a fabulous singer? Who cares! All that's required on closing night is passion, showmanship, and especially costumes for our annual open-mic spectacular, a high-energy bash celebrating the weirdest,...
Dance-a-lorus
Various
A festival tradition, Dance-a-lorus pushes boundaries by pairing filmmakers and choreographers for an exploration of film and dance. This live stage event encourages collaboration as a fundamental form of creative...
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Anna Stromberg
Based on the classic novella, this original adaptation takes you to the dismal streets of London in the 1860s, where societal pressures silence a gentle doctor’s questions about the nature...
Finding Common Ground : Connection Through Shared Experience
Tara O’Con
Drawing upon the fundamental building blocks of how we engage with each other through acts of deep listening, holding space, presence, and shared vulnerability, participants will take a deep-dive into...
Future Perfect: A Postcapitalist Adventure
Free Machine
Technology shapes society, and vice versa. The coming wave of AI-driven automation will profoundly alter our lives—but how? At Future Perfect: A Postcapitalist Adventure, you’ll take on the role of...
Here at the Bailey Theater
Liz Naiden
Here at the Bailey Theater revisits the history of watching disaster from a distance - an experience inextricably linked to cinema by the newsreel footage once screened at Theaters like...
Hominy Shorts
Various
Atlas World // Morgana McKenzie :: A malignant spirit forces a girl into a perilous journey through a watery underworld. B3d 0f R0s3s // Kelley Van Dilla :: B3d 0f R0s3s is an experimental...
Ike Once More
Ikechukwu Ufomadu
Charismatic solo performer Ikechukwu Ufomadu blurs the line between life and variety show in an evening of original comic and music entertainments. Bio
Lizdelise w/ Rene Russell, Pinky Verde
Various
Lizdelise is a dreamy pop rock duo from Philadelphia. Angular guitar lines meet looper, drum machine, and synth to create energized, intricate soundscapes and melodies. The duo crafts a playful,...
Painting with Sound / Hearing the Light
Various
Eight, short, experimental films made collaboratively by 16 UNCW Film Studies students. This project first asked students to question the narrative norm of sound supporting a film's image. Instead, the films were all created first as soundscapes and THEN...
Sleep Piece
Lucy Kerr
Sleep Piece is a site-specific performance installation. The piece explores the body's relationship to gravity as a kind of resistance against expectations for posture and femininity in public space. *This...
Stand-Up at Dead Crow: DeAnne Smith and Kevin Yee
Various
DeAnne Smith, a Canadian Comedy Award winner, is “Smart. Very funny” and has “Effortless charm lets her get away with murder" according to The UK Telegraph. She's also been on...
Stand-Up at Dead Crow: DeAnne Smith and Kevin Yee
Various
DeAnne Smith, a Canadian Comedy Award winner, is “Smart. Very funny” and has “Effortless charm lets her get away with murder" according to The UK Telegraph. She's also been on...
Superchunk w/ Cardinal Family Singers
Superchunk
Chapel Hill-native Superchunk is Mac McCaughan (guitar, vocals), Jim Wilbur (guitar, backing vocals), Jon Wurster (drums, backing vocals), and Laura Ballance (bass, backing vocals). Since releasing their first 7-inch in...
The Evolution of Silence (Version 2)
Rachele Riley
The Evolution of Silence (Version 2) takes a poetic, expressive, and non-hierarchical approach to imaging, meaning, and structure. The video is generated through code (Processing), and explores the dynamics of...
The Mary Worshippers of Sheepshead Bay
Shaun Mitchell
Seven priests and nuns search for a new identity, a new life and a new God in the shadow of the Atomic Age Bio
The Nature of Forgetting
Theatre Re
Through movement of great physicality and compelling live music, The Nature of Forgetting is the story of Tom, a middle aged father, struggling in the early stages of dementia. A...
The ToyMaker, a SNEAK PEEK!
Bryan Putnam
Get a GLIMPSE into the heart of the Wilmington born musical that New York’s Backstage hails as “INCREDIBLE…BEAUTIFUL…INTRICATE”. Drawn by her own longing for children and a connection to a...
Verses: Versus
Rachel de Cuba
Verses: Versus uses a predetermined line up of love songs to open up a stage for audiences to cross the divide between viewing and performing. Audience members can cross the...
Visual / Sound / Walls Open Lounge
Come for installations, drinks and more at V/S/W Lounge!
Visual / Sound / Walls Open Lounge
Come for installations, drinks and more at V/S/W Lounge!
Visual / Sound / Walls Open Lounge
Come for installations, drinks and more at V/S/W Lounge!
Wilmington Symphony Pops “Music from the Silver Screen” With Special Guest David Hyde Pierce
Wilmington Symphony Orchestra
For the second year, a great benefit of the Cucalorus ticket packages and passes is a ticket to the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra. Buy your Stage Pass, Pegasorus Pass, or ticket...
Wilmington Symphony Youth Orchestra
Steven Errante, Jane Tierney
Bring the kids and introduce them to the joy and excitement of an orchestra concert featuring the Wilmington Symphony Youth Orchestra, conducted by Steven Errante, and the Wilmington Symphony Junior...
WMF Opening Night with Igor Pikayzen, Violin & Barry Salwen, Piano
Wilmington Music Festival
Wilmington Music Festival 2018-2019 Season Grand Opening Concert features Russia’s violin virtuoso Igor Pikayzen and UNCW’s piano guru Dr. Barry Salwen in a program of chamber music masterpieces by Mozart, Brahms,...
