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Tickets On Sale Now  DURHAM, NC July 11, 2022— The Carolina Theatre of Durham will host its RetroClassics Film Series from July 22 to July 24.   RetroClassics features monumental foreign language and English-speaking films that stretch as far back as 1922’s “HÄXAN” up to 1985’s “Brazil.” The films included in the series also span a wide variety of […]

Tickets On Sale Now  DURHAM, NC July 7, 2022—The Carolina Theatre of Durham will host its MovieDiva Film Series on select Wednesdays from July 13 to November 30.   MovieDiva focuses on classic films led by strong female characters. This installment of the series features films from a wide range of genres, including adventure films such […]

Tickets On Sale Now  DURHAM, NC June 27, 2022— Kaiju-Quest Film Series runs at The Carolina Theatre of Durham on select Wednesdays, from July 6 through December 7.   The series will screen movies that belong to the Kaiju genre, a type of Japanese film which features giant monsters attacking major cities and battling either […]

Tickets On Sale Now  DURHAM, NC June 15, 2022— The Carolina Theatre of Durham will host its annual MysteryRealm Film Series from June 24 to June 30.   MysteryRealm presents seven suspense-filled nights of hard-boiled mysteries and whodunnits.  The series includes six classics from Alfred Hitchcock, including “Stage Fright,” “Rear Window,” “Vertigo,” “North by Northwest,” […]

Tickets On Sale Now   DURHAM, NC May 24, 2022— The Carolina Theatre of Durham announces its newest Retro Film Series happening July-December 2022.  Started in 1998, the Retro Film Series brings classic double-feature films to the big screen every Friday night. The Retro Film Series spotlights film noir, pre-Code Hollywood, horror, sci-fi, and classic blockbusters. […]

Tickets On Sale Now DURHAM, NC — March 1, 2022 — The FantasticRealm Film Series begins on March 11, 2022 at the Carolina Theatre. FantasticRealm is a week-long event from March 11-17 that hosts imaginative films from childhood. Films include “Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone,” “Logan’s Run,” “King Kong (1976),” “Lord of the Rings: […]

Tickets On Sale Now DURHAM, NC January 3, 2022— The Carolina Theatre of Durham announces its 2022 Retro Film Series lineup for the upcoming 24th season. Started in 1998, the Retro Film Series brings classic double-feature films to the big screen every Friday night. The Retro Film Series spotlights film noir, pre-Code Hollywood, horror, sci-fi, […]

Tickets On Sale Now DURHAM, NC October 20, 2021— The Carolina Theatre of Durham will host its 4th annual Rocky Horror Picture Show Halloween Ball on Friday, October 29th and Saturday, October 30th at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $12.50 and are on sale at carolinatheatre.org and at the theater’s box office. The Rocky Horror Picture […]

The Carolina Theatre of Durham welcomed 16,099 students, including 9,842 from Durham Public Schools (DPS), to 20 entertaining and enriching Arts Discovery Educational Series (ADES) shows during the 2016-17 school year. The attendance was a 79 percent increase from the 2015-16 school year. Attendance among DPS students increased fivefold in 2016-17. The theatre partnered with the school […]

You may like movies, but Marc Wasserman loves them. Really. Like he’ll-watch-12-of-them-in-a-row-this-weekend loves them. A former Durham resident who has since relocated to New England, Wasserman, 30, is a Carolina Theatre donor who is about to hold his third annual 24-hour movie marathon fundraiser in his Boston living room on Saturday (March 12). As he’s done for the past […]