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Tickets to the Film Festival on Sale Now  DURHAM, July 21, 2022 — The Carolina Theatre of Durham presents the OUTSOUTH Queer Film Festival August 11-14. OUTSOUTH celebrates a worldwide glimpse of today’s LGBTQ+ life through entertaining and sophisticated films and filmmaking and helps bring the community together for a “Durham Signature Event,” the highest honor […]

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 23, 2022— Walt Disney’s animated classical music anthology, “Fantasia,” will be screened at  The Carolina Theatre of Durham from July 1 to July 3 as part of the theater’s Retro Film Series.   Released in 1940, “Fantasia” was the third animated feature film that Disney produced. The film features eight sequences […]

Tickets On Sale Now  DURHAM, NC — April 21, 2022 — The Carolina Theatre of Durham and the Southern Documentary Fund are co-sponsoring the documentary screening of “Stay Prayed Up” on Saturday, May 7, 2022, at 4 PM. The screening will include a performance from The Branchettes, the Johnston County, North Carolina gospel group featured […]

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 to the Hybrid Horror Film Festival on Sale Now  DURHAM, NC, January 28, 2022—The Carolina Theatre of Durham presents its Nevermore Film Festival February 25-27. The Nevermore Film Festival will take place in-person and virtually. The virtual festival is February 25-March 3. This will be the 23rd year of presenting the Nevermore Film Festival. The […]

September lineup includes national comedians and musicians Durham, NC September 7, 2021—After nearly 18 months, the Carolina Theatre of Durham has reopened for live events. The non-profit historic theater launched its first local event last Thursday with Durham-based Mallarmé Chamber Players and bluegrass band, Hank, Pattie & The Current. The theater’s September lineup includes comedians […]

Celebrating 20 years of scaring, thrilling and entertaining audiences in Durham, the Nevermore Film Festival will return to the Carolina Theatre from Friday, March 8 through Sunday, March 10. Tickets for this annual cinematic feast of horror, science-fiction and dark fantasy films, cost $10 per screening and are on sale now at the Carolina Theatre […]

DURHAM, NC (November 16, 2018) — One of the largest repertory film programs in the country, the Carolina Theatre of Durham’s Retro Film Series will mark its 20th anniversary tonight at 7 p.m. with a double-feature of two perfectly creepy, on-brand films: Friday The 13th: Part 2, the first movie the program screened in 1998, […]