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  • Bluey's Big Play

    Closed Apr 28, 2024

  • Wild Kratts - Live

    May 4, 2024

  • The Lion King

    May 15 - Jun 9, 2024

  • Back To The Future - The Musical

    May 20 - 25, 2025

  • The Wiz

    Aug 5 - 10, 2025

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Bluey's Big Play

Closed April 28, 2024

A brand new adaptation of the award-winning children's TV series! See your favourite character, Bluey, come to life on stage in this vibrant and educational production. Colourful sets and imaginative puppetry will ensure this original story is memorable for young audiences, particularly if it's their very first theatre experience!

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Wild Kratts - Live

May 4, 2024

The Kratt Brothers leap off your TV screens and head on the road with their live stage show. The stars behind PBS' animated show Wild Kratts present a wildly entertaining live experience that will entertain and educate the whole family, featuring lots of audience participation and cool facts about the animal kingdom.

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The Lion King

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Winner of 6 Tony Awards

May 15 - June 9, 2024

Still going strong after two incredible decades, this Tony Award-winning extravaganza will delight, enthral and bring out your inner cub. Based on the 1994 Disney movie, The Lion King incorporates several changes and additions to the storyline as compared to the film, making for a whole new experience, suitable for everyone in the family. Touring across the country, don't miss your chance to see this Disney masterpiece!

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Back To The Future - The Musical

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May 20 - 25, 2025

Great Scott! Back To The Future is on tour and coming to YOU! The hit 80's franchise is the latest movie sensation to receive a Broadway musical adaptation. The production follows Marty McFly and kooky scientist Doc Brown as they travel through space and time, finding themselves in a series of mishaps. Will these two-time travelers ever find their way back home?

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The Wiz

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August 5 - 10, 2025

The seven-time Tony-winning hit, "The Wiz," is back with a brand new Pre-Broadway tour the first in 40 years! The soul, gospel, funk, and R&B-fused reimagining of Frank L. Baum's "The Wizard of Oz" will be taking to the road in a brand new production directed by Schele Williams, presenting William F. Brown and Charlie Smalls' vibrant musical for the 21st century. With additional material by Amber Ruffin and choreography by Jaquel Knight, join Dorothy, Toto, Tinman, Scarecrow, and Lion as they boogie down the Yellow Brick Road in search of heart, knowledge, courage, and home!

Durham Performing Arts Center

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123 Vivian St, Durham, NC 27701

  • Year opened: 2008
  • Concession stands
  • Disabled access
  • In-house bar

The Durham Performing Arts Center opened in 2008 as the largest performing arts center in the Carolinas, with a seating capacity of 2,712. Durham Performing Arts holds over 200 performances each year, including touring Broadway productions, family shows, comedy events, large-scale concerts and the American Dance Festival. Touring concerts are the majority of the events held at the venue. The center has been named twice as the number 1 performing arts organization in the Triangle region by the Triangle Business Journal.

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