Embers Christmas Show

Wednesday, November 27, 2024, 7:30pm

Tickets $20/each

Enjoy the heart-and-soul, rhythm-and-blues, feel-good music of The Embers. Featuring lead singer and frontman Craig Woolard, The Embers are known as the pre-eminent beach music band in the Carolinas. Having performed all over the world, they are bringing their beloved Christmas show back to Fuquay-Varina for a special kickoff to the holiday season.They will put JOY in your step, LOVE in your heart and BEACH MUSIC in your soul!

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The Fuquay Varina Chorale Holiday Concert

Friday, December 6, 2024, 7:30pm

Saturday, December 7, 2024, 2:00pm and 7:30pm

Tickets $10/each

'Tis the season of holiday harmonies! Join the Fuquay-Varina Chorale for their annual holiday show this year at the Fuquay-Varina Arts Center. Having performed at Carnegie Hall just over a year ago, you can expect an evening of beautiful music, holiday favorites, and fabulous fun! A favorite every year, the Chorale is a great opportunity for the whole family to get out and listen to the beautiful voices that make up Fuquay-Varina.

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Nutcracker ‘24

Friday, December 13, 2024, 7:00PM

Saturday, December 14, 2024, 11:00AM, 2:30PM and 5:00PM

Tickets $6/each

Join Lady Thistledown as she guides us through the magical dream that is The Nutcracker. The Fuquay-Varina Arts Center is proud to present its fifth annual production, loosely based on the E.T.A. Hoffman fantasy story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" . The Arts Center's production always offers a new twist to the classic tale.

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Tea with the Sugar Plum Fairy

Sponsored by The Friends of the Arts Center

Saturday, December 14, 12:00PM

Tickets $8/each

Our sweetest event of the Year! This family-friendly add-on event is a perfect way to celebrate the season. Enjoy festive bites and crafts, and take your picture with the Sugar Plum Fairy!

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Gerald Parker Jazz Orchestra Holiday Concert

Saturday, December 21, 2024, 7:30pm

Tickets $10/each

Time to get your jingle on as holiday favorites are brought to the stage as only the Gerald Parker Jazz Orchestra can do it! The GPJO delights with their special brand of swinging holiday tunes. The evening promises to be a great night of holiday music and merriment!

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The Gin Game
by DL Colburn

Friday & Saturday, February 21 & 22, 2025, 7:30PM

Sunday, February 23, 2025, 2:00PM

Tickets $15/Adults; $13/Srs and Students

Weller Martin is playing solitaire on the porch of a seedy nursing home. Enter Fonsia Dorsey, a prim, self-righteous lady. They discover they both dislike the home and enjoy gin rummy, so they begin to play and to reveal the story of their lives. Winner of the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

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Swingtime Canteen
Book by Linda Thorsen Bond, William Repicci and Charles Busch

Friday & Saturday, May 9 & 10, 2025, 7:30PM

Sunday, May 11, 2025, 2:00PM

Tickets $15/Adults;$13/Srs & Students

It's 1944 London and film star Marian Ames has brought her best girl friends from the Hollywood Canteen to put on the rip-roaringest canteen show of them all. Marian, Jo, Katie, Topeka and Lilly are ready to give the troops a memorable night with over 30 vintage classics from the war years. Laughs, tears, emotional fireworks, air raids and a celebration of women during the war punctuate this hilarious and heartwarming story.

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Information

The Box Office at the Arts Center is open Monday through Saturday, between 10am and 5pm.

On Event nights, the Box Office opens one hour prior to curtain.

If you have any questions regarding accessibility or accommodations, please call the Box Office at 919-567-3921 prior to your visit.