2+ hour, 42+ min ago  (16+ words) Scenes from the 2026 Wilmington Theater Awards'Wilmington Star-News Scenes from the 2026 Wilmington Theater Awards...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (429+ words) Whether it's music, comedy, poetry readings or something else, the best, and worst, thing about them is that anyone can participate. A comedy open mic I go to sometimes is the one run by Wilmington stand-up Brad Allred. It used…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (446+ words) There's nothing like a door-slamming stage farce, and Brunswick Little Theatre is staging a fun one at its cozy Southport facility through Sunday, March 8. Written by the North Carolina comic and actor Lewis Black, who's known for his stage rants…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (437+ words) On Wednesday night, Feb. 11, I was invited to a dress rehearsal of what might be the most secretive play ever staged in Wilmington. "White Rabbit Red Rabbit," by the Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour, is being put up by Big Dawg…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (242+ words) A comedy special that filmed in Wilmington over the summer is getting ready to premiere on the world's biggest streaming service. In June, Cape Fear Community College's Wilson Center hosted four sold-out shows by comic Leanne Morgan and its first-ever…...

5+ mon, 5+ day ago  (98+ words) Wilmington's Big Dawg Productions delivers a laugh-out-loud funny staging of "Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors," a madcap send-up of the vampire tale. Laugh-out-loud Wilmington stage comedy delivers batty Halloween humor We've all experienced the Dracula story so many times and…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago  (410+ words) The Wilmington area is known for a lot of things: great beaches, a vibrant downtown, being the hometown of basketball great Michael Jordan. Now, it will also be known as the place where popular stand-up comedian Dusty Slay had a…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago  (376+ words) Bowling is often a pop-culture footnote, used as comic fodder in memes about the sport's supposed ridiculousness while occasionally getting a starring role in feature films both raunchy ("Kingpin") and cosmically ambitious ("The Big Lebowski"). But Steven Dietz's darkly gentle…...