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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 […]

You think you know a lot about films? Odds are you don’t know as much as Jim Carl. The Carolina Theatre’s senior director is a master of film history, movie-making facts and cinema technology. The Indy recently leaned on Jim’s expansive knowledge – and his experience in guiding the Carolina’s conversion from film to digital […]

The Carolina Theatre has been invited to host an exclusive new film screening series presenting the biggest independent films for one advance screening in Durham before they’re in theatres nationwide. Each month, The New York Film Critics Series will premiere one of the hottest new independent films days or even weeks before they are available […]