Thalian Hall's illustrious legacy carries the names of noted artists who have made their entrance onto this glorious stage for more than 150 years. Since the venue's opening in 1858, national and international artists from every genre of the performing arts have been welcomed to Wilmington's distinctive Thalian Hall. As one of America's most celebrated historic theatres, it is, indeed, where Art Comes to Life ...
Thalian Hall's upcoming 2012 - 2013 season spans the gamut from popular music to outlandish comedy, searing drama to jaw-dropping banjo and guitar. Journey back to the Motown of the 60s or to the squeals of delight when Beatlemania hit our shores. Enjoy a Celtic Christmas and marvel at what an artist can create with a bicycle.
It all happens in one of the most beautiful, memorable theatres in America. There's no need for added video screens, there's no need for binoculars. When it's only 14 rows deep, you're able to reach out and touch the moment - just like the magic moment touches you!
Take a glance at the Main Attractions scheduled for the 2012 - 2013 Season. Please use the links provided to double check show dates as we get closer to these spectacular Wilmington events! Show tickets will be available for sale starting September 1, 2012. Friends of Thalian Hall members can order tickets before they go on sale to the general public. Become a member today!
Yesterday & Today: The Interactive Beatles Experience
October 12, 2012
Talk about a Magical Mystery Tour! Everyone has a personal connection to a Beatles song, and Billy McGuigan has built this remarkable concert on just that premise. The audience determines each night's song list for this one-of-a-kind journey through the music of The Beatles. No show's ever the same - except that each one becomes a guaranteed, unforgettable ticket to ride. Click here for additional information about this performance.
Rave On! The Buddy Holly Experience
October 13, 2012
When you manage to get Billy McGuigan to town, you work hard not to let him get away, so Thalian Hall plans to rock for two nights in a row! Rave On! is an electrifying musical tour-de-force featuring such hits as 'Peggy Sue", "That'll Be the Day", "It's So Easy", and more. You'll even hear Buddy's homage to fellow rockers Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper. It's non-stop music & power-outage charisma led by the country's most popular interpreter of the iconic songbook of Buddy Holly. Click here for additional information about this performance.
Fay Lane's Beauty Shop Stories
October 20, 2012
Fay Lane grew up in TX. Her mama ran a beauty shop in the back room. "While all the ladies were under the dryers, I was the fat little girl in a glittered-up Burger King crown, practicing my beauty queen acceptance speech with a Moon Pie in my hand ..." Dreams come true. Fay Lane's songs and beauty shop stories have now enamored audiences from New York to L.A., from Joe's Pub and Caroline's Comedy Club to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and NPR. "When you're finally crowned a bedazzled Green Bean Queen, there's not turning back". Click here for additional information about this show.
Birmingham Children's Theatre: Sleeping Beauty
October 31, 2012
Birmingham Children's Theatre is among the nation's most respected professional theatres for young audiences. In this classic tale of "Sleeping Beauty", children journey to a faraway land to meet charming princes, beautiful maidens, and fairies both good and bad. When the King and Queen's little Princess is finally born, all the fairies int he kingdom are invited to her christening - except for one - and the classic tale of love, courage, and the triumph of good and evil is unveiled. Click here for additional information about this show.
An Evening with Frank Vignola
November 1, 2012
One of the most extraordinary guitarists performing today, his stunning virtuosity has placed him at the side of artists including Les Paul, Madonna, Ringo Starr and Wynton Marsalis. With a mind-boggling repertoire that defies categorization - and a showmanship that could charm birds from the trees to come in and pull up a chair - the man's fingers fly at the speed of light, zooming from the gypsy jazz of Django Reinhardt to the hot rock of Frank Zappa. Click here for additional information about this performance.
Emile Pandolfi in Concert
November 17, 2012
It’s a grand night for music at the Steinway grand. With more than thirty recordings, Pandolfi is among America’s most requested piano artists. Far from some straight-backed formal “recital,” the personal warmth of an evening with Emile transforms his magical music into a conversation with friends. Guest vocalist Dana Russell is a glorious bonus, and don’t be surprised this time around if Emile himself takes a turn at the mic. Click here for additional information about this performance.
Cherish the Ladies: Celtic Christmas
November 28, 2012
Cherish the Ladies is the most successful, sought-after Irish-American group in Celtic music, blending virtuosic instrumental talents, beautiful vocals, captivating arrangements and irrepressible step dancing into sellout concerts around the globe. Their Christmas CD was chosen as one of the top Albums of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Village Voice and more. Their collaboration with the Boston Pops led to a Grammy nomination, and their latest CD "Country Crossroads" features guest stars Vince Gill, Nanci Griffith and Maura O'Connell. Click here for additional information about this performance.
An Evening with the Kruger Brothers
January 19, 2013
“When we began our career in 1975 on the streets of Munich, nothing could have prepared us for the journey that lay ahead.” Now with fifteen albums, their repertoire travels from traditional clawhammer tunes to their Appalachian Concerto collaboration with classical string quartet. Jens Kruger (banjo, vocals), Uwe Kruger (guitar, lead vocals), and Joel Landsberg (bass, vocals) personify the spirit of exploration and innovation that forms the core of the American musical tradition. From Merlefest to Symphony Hall, the musical horizons of the Kruger Brothers are as awe-inspiring as the vistas from their adopted Appalachian home. Click here for additional information about this performance.
Pied Piper Theatre: Beanstalk -- A Moo-sical for Children
January 20, 2013
In Steve Cooper’s tuneful take on this tall tale, a hero named Jack teaches us about friendship and responsibility. When an errant giant roars into town, Jack meets surprise after surprise as he climbs a magical beanstalk to rescue his multi-talented, tap-dancing cow Bossy! From the creator of Pied Piper’s Aladdin, Bug Story and more, this entertaining moo-sical teaches a valuable lesson -- with a side-splitting story and one very talented cow. Visit www.thalianhall.org for additional information.
The Fred Hersch Trio
January 24, 2013
Jason Moran says "Fred at the piano is like LeBron James on the basketball court. He’s perfection.” The five-time Grammy Award nominee was tagged “the most arrestingly innovative pianist in jazz over the last decade” by Vanity Fair, and the first artist in the 75-years of New York's legendary Village Vanguard to play week-long engagements as a solo pianist. A recipient of Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellowships, Hersch has performed with artists ranging from Stan Getz, Joe Henderson and Kurt Elling to Renee Fleming, Dawn Upshaw and Audra MacDonald. Click here for additional information about this performance.
Tammy Pescatelli: Finding the Funny
February 28, 2013
When people ask where this funny lady gets her material, she answers, “I wake up!” Her childhood in a large Italian family near Cleveland provided all the fodder she needed to propel her to NBC’s “Last Comic Standing.” She was winner of Comedy Central’s “Stand-Up Showdown” and hosted her reality TV series “A Stand-Up Mother” on WEtv about balancing her life as a comic and a mom. Tammy has appeared on “The Tonight Show with Lay Leno,” CBS’s “The Talk,” “Last Call with Carson Daly” and Last Comic Standing’s “The Best of the Best.” Click here for additional information about this show.
Broadway's Craig Schulman: Heroes, Monsters, & Madmen
March 8, 2013
It’s a legacy of unforgettable men and their music. Craig Schulman is the only performer in the world to have performed three of the most extraordinary musical theatre characters ever written. He has appeared in the title roles of Jekyll & Hyde, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom Of The Opera, and nearly 2,000 performances of Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, on Broadway and around the world. Craig was chosen to represent the U.S. in the Les Misérables Tenth Anniversary Concert at Royal Albert Hall in London. Click here for additional information about this show.
Jeremy Kittel Band
March 9, 2013
A full-time member of the Grammy-winning Turtle Island String Quartet and leader of his namesake band, Kittel’s stylistically diverse, boundary-zapping performances produce a breathless fusion of musical styles – and an audience response that borders on Kittel-mania. Considered among the leading improvising violinists of his generation, the Manhattan School of Music graduate has collaborated with musical giants including Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer, Paquito D’Rivera, Stefon Harris and Chris Thile, and has appeared on Prairie Home Companion, at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, and at Bonnaroo and Telluride. Click here for additional information about this performance.
Evalyn Parry's 'Spin' -- Starring the Bicycle
April 4, 2013
Toronto artist Evalyn Parry’s tour-de-force celebrates the bicycle as muse, musical instrument and agent of social change. Inspired by the true tale of Annie Londonderry – the first woman to ride around the world on a bicycle in 1894, this mesmerizing hybrid of music, theatre and spoken word features a suspended bicycle as an unimaginably rich source of percussive accompaniment! From 19th century women’s emancipation to 21st century consumer culture, Parry reveals a profoundly personal and contemporary journey to liberation – for cyclists and non-cyclists alike! Click here for additional information about this performance.
Kid Power: Operation Lunch Line 3-D!
April 17, 2013
Operation Lunch Line is a highly interactive, one-hour musical designed to help children learn the value of good nutrition and exercise. Using spectacular visual effects in 3-D, the audience joins Kid Power on an amazing journey inside the human body of a boy named Max, who feels lousy because he doesn't eat or move properly. Through audience participation, students educate and motivate Max, and learn that they, too, are filled with all the "Kid Power" needed to feel great by balancing food and exercise. Click here for additional information about this musical.
Dar He: The Story of Emmett Till
April 19, 2013
In 1955, a 14-year-old black Chicago youth traveled to Mississippi with country kinfolk and southern cooking on his mind. He stepped off the train into a world of thick color lines, hard-held class systems and unspeakable taboos. Young Emmett crossed that line and stepped into his gruesome fate by whistling at a white woman. This riveting play chronicles the murder, trial and unbelievable confession of the men accused of Till's lynching. Actor/playwright Mike Wiley also portrays 36 roles in the recent feature film adaptation of this play, currently winning acclaim at film festivals around the world. Click here for additional information about this show.
Broadway's Next Hit Musical
April 20, 2013
If you enjoy comedy, music, theatre, laughter, giggles, onstage mayhem, jawdropping dexterity and lightning-fast creativity -- this show's for you. It's the improvised musical that's created a side-splitting legacy from coast to coast. The first act is a red carpet awards ceremony spotlighting four 'Best Musical' nominees chosen from the audience's suggested song titles. The second act then takes it to the next unbelievable step - an entire musical - created right on the spot, based on that award-winning song title from the first act. They're braver than we are! Click here for more information about this show.
Masters of Motown
Broadway's Next Hit Musical
April 20, 2013
If you enjoy comedy, music, theatre, laughter, giggles, onstage mayhem, jawdropping dexterity and lightning-fast creativity -- this show's for you. It's the improvised musical that's created a side-splitting legacy from coast to coast. The first act is a red carpet awards ceremony spotlighting four 'Best Musical' nominees chosen from the audience's suggested song titles. The second act then takes it to the next unbelievable step - an entire musical - created right on the spot, based on that award-winning song title from the first act. They're braver than we are! Click here for more information about this show.
Masters of Motown
May 2 & 3, 2013
So many hits, so little time! You’ve got two evenings to travel to Motor City for all of Motown’s iconic songs of the 60s. The full live band and high-stepping vocalists pay tribute to tunes forever playing in our memories -- hits by legendary Motown groups including The Temptations, The Four Tops, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Martha Reeves & the Vandellas, The Commodores, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell, Diana Ross & the Supremes, the Jackson Five & more! Click here for additional information about this performance.
We are looking forward to a wonderful 2012 - 2013 season at Thalian Hall. Mark your calendar and share these event details with family and friends so that you can enjoy these spectacular Wilmington events together. We look forward to seeing you at Thalian Hall!
Danielle Snyder
Wilmington NC Events
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