Cucalorus Stage Performances
Always and forever an extravagant piece of performance art disguised as a film festival, Cucalorus Stage expands the festival’s performance programming! From favorites like Dance-a-lorus, Bus to Lumberton, and Visual/Sound/Walls to co-productions with the Wilson Center, TheatreNOW, The Whiskey, and Dead Crow to a full slate of local and international shows at North Front Theater to installations in backyards and living rooms, this inaugural year brings the same rigorous, intentional curation to live events as to screenings.
▼The John William & Liddie Belle House of Black Infinity▲
Muthi Reed
Opening with video projection, four poems delivered in acapella fashion introduces VISITATIONS* time/space migrations with kinfolk in Detroit, Philadelphia, Alabama, and along the pathways of the Great Migration and Planet...
13 Award-Winning* Scenes About Mediocrity
Pineapple-Shaped Lamps
Pineapple-Shaped Lamps is proud to present “13 Award-Winning* Scenes About Mediocrity (*Participation Trophies Count)”, an original comedy show for Cucalorus Stage. Follow a series of seemingly unconnected vignettes concerning the...
Americana Psychobabble
Alexandra Tatarsky
A delirious anti-narrative of American emptiness, violence, and nonsense -- part exorcism and part enema! With styrofoam wings, x-mas lights, and ketchup.
An Impromptu Glorious Singalorus Chorus™
Elise Witt
Elise teaches in a style so easy that, before you know it, the room is in perfect harmony! Sing a Brazilian samba, Congolese storysong, Italian round, or 4-part harmonies from...
Body So Fluorescent
David Di Giovanni
What happened last night on the dance floor? Two friends try to retrace their steps from the night before to figure out just how it all ended in an explosive...
Bus to Lumberton
Josephine Decker
When you think David Lynch's "Blue Velvet", you may think of the eerie things that happen at night: like Dennis Hopper sucking on amyl nitrate or Kyle McLaughlin hiding in...
Campfireball
Cory Howard
Campfireball is a hand stitched, multiform storytelling project that pursues new and old methods of entertainment, surprise and engagement in an effort to connect everyone to everything. The live experience...
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...
Emcee Showcase
Various
If you can't get enough of our charming emcees, this showcase is your chance to bask again in their onstage presence and many diverse talents.
Happy Birthday Peg
Betsy Holt
An interactive film installation featuring a collection of working vintage vibrators designed for female pleasure and continuous small group screenings of a short film, in which a woman penetrates her...
LiZez LIVE! A Play
Liz Clayton Scofield
The artist and a series of toys created in their image wander through the spaces we occupy. An interactive livestream multimedia performance. A wandering adventure of a tale. Open to...
Mo Alexander w/ Mr. Ginger and Cordero Wilson
Booming laughter at Dead Crow Comedy Room! 11/9/2017 at 7:00PM and 9:30PM 11/10/2017 at 7:00PM and 9:30PM Mo Alexander has played the comedy game for almost two decades and has...
New World Symphony
Wilmington Symphony Orchestra
Whether you’re a first time visitor or a long-time season subscriber, you will thoroughly enjoy an evening with the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra. Audience members are delighted each year by the...
Nik Greeley and the Operators w/ West End Blend
Various
A night of music and fun at The Whiskey! Nik Greeley and the Operators "The band's energetic live performances include a diverse spectrum of rhythm, blues, jazz, and extreme levels...
Rebekah Todd w/ Jenny Besetzt and The Numbskulls
Various
Music for the Cuctails Party @ Bourgie Nights on Saturday! Read more about the Cuctails Parties and Workshops here. Rebekah Todd Growing up in the small town of Benson, North Carolina,...
Shirley Gnome: Taking It Up The Notch
Shirley Gnome
Last year's winner of the Cucalorus Buzz Repeat 1 makes her return this year with an all-new show. This internationally acclaimed, award-winning cabaret comedian will sing you shameless, obscenely honest...
The Diary Play
Trey Morehouse
Four distinct teen voices dealing with issues of maturity, growth, and growing pains. The director, Trey Morehouse, asked adults of various backgrounds to reflect on the diaries they wrote as...
The Swing Shifters
The Swing Shifters
Music for the Cuctails Party @ Bourgie Nights on Friday! Read more about the Cuctails Parties and Workshops here. The Swing Shifters The Swing Shifters recently came together in Wilmington, NC...
The Waking Life
Waking (adj.)-Marked by full consciousness, awareness, and alertness. The Waking Life is the creation of Wilmington based multi instrumentalist and visual artist Luis Adorno. The Waking Life was started in 2014...
TJ Kong and the Atomic Bomb w/ Elvis Division and Skribe
Various
A night of music and fun at The Whiskey! TJ Kong and the Atomic Bomb "TJ Kong and the Atomic BombA contemporary-ancient brand of Americana similar to The Band or,...
Visual/Sound/Walls: VJs & DJs BFs 4 EVs
Various
A dance party that celebrates the intimate relationship of visual stimulation and audio propagation. Grab yourself a hand crafted cocktail for your mouth hole and immerse the rest of your...
Visual/Sound/Walls: Director’s Cut
Consume all the music videos who's creators have traveled from far and wide to create fellowship by sharing their music video creations, and then watch them strive to deal with...
Visual/Sound/Walls: Opening Night Party
Various
Kick off your Cucalorus by grabbing yourself a mix drank and enjoying yourself a music video mix of the best dang music videos produced on this whole dang planet while...
We Can Be Heroes
Hank Toler
A group of superheroes take on a nemesis – and a twist they'll have to use all their individual supertalents to untangle – in this local TheatreNOW co-production.
Wilmington New Works
Various
Why Everything Sucks (Or Not) // Joel Perry :: Leo, 58, unemployed and bitter at God for the cruel unfairness of life, meets Vic, 20, deeply Christian, and convinced he has received...
Zeppelin Was A Cover Band
Stefan Cedilot
Zeppelin Was A Cover Band mixes documentary type storytelling and theatrical performance to recount the story of the blues through the music of rock band Led Zeppelin. Stéfan Cédilot tells...
