Fayetteville’s Theater Community
Live theater is a live experience that has an energy that watching tv or movies just can’t match. When my husband and I were first dating, he took me to a lot of plays that came off of Broadway and toured the country. I loved every one of them and asked him for Christmas If maybe we can get tickets to see more local theater.
Sadly, it’s very expensive to travel to New York to see plays on Broadway; even for people who live in the area, it can be prohibitively expensive. But while we all can’t see a Broadway play right now, we can experience the excitement of a Broadway show right here in our city.
Actors love performing on stage as well: there are so many famous actors today who started on Broadway or even in plays in their local hometown.
They become movie stars, but many of them come back to the Broadway stage because of their love for the stage and their love for having a live audience to react to the lines and emotions their characters emote.
I thought I would specify where in Fayetteville, you can see a play with live actors acting out that familiar story or a new tale right here in town.
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Cape Fear Regional Theater
This theater started in 1962 when a small group of local actors created a theater that would one day evolve into one of the finest theatres in the state. It all began with a two-show season starting with the classic Dickens A Christmas Carol performed at Alexander Graham Junior High.
This small group of enthusiasts formed the Fayetteville Little Theatre. With the community’s support, funds were raised to renovate the building and incorporate two adjacent buildings. On the advice of State Senators Tony Rand, Lura Tally, and others, the theatre changed its name to Cape Fear Regional Theatre.
CFRT features a three-story complex with a 300-seat main stage and contracts actors, writers, and designers from throughout the country. CFRT’s six-show main stage season and robust education and outreach programs serve over 62,000 audience members a year from all ages.
Sweet Tea Shakespeare
Sweet Tea Shakespeare was founded in 2012 with summer productions at the Cape Fear Botanical Garden in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Since then, the company has expanded into year-round operations in Fayetteville and Raleigh. They stage regular productions of Shakespeare’s plays, musicals, concerts, streaming productions, small entertainments, a drunk Shakespeare series, and their young company, Green Tea.
