Start your weekend off on the right foot at the Wake Forest Renaissance Centre's TGIF Dance Party on Friday, Aug. 28, at 7:30 pm.

Area residents looking for a great place to hang out and dance with their friends are invited to come out and enjoy great music in a fun party-like setting.

The evening will get underway with a family dance session from 7:30 to 9 p.m., followed by a dance for adults only from 9-11 p.m. The adult session will include a cash bar serving beer, wine and soft drinks.

Tickets are $5 (plus tax).

For more information, contact the Renaissance Centre Box Office at 919-435-9458.

The Wake Forest Renaissance Centre for the Arts hosts free, movie showings at 7 pm on the first Friday of each month. 

The featured movie in September will be "Black or White." The film is rated PG.

Free and open to the public, First Friday Flix movie screenings feature a variety of film favorites and genres, including comedies, dramas, thrillers and more, often with a seasonal or historical theme. Concessions, including popcorn and soft drinks, will be available for purchase.

For more information, call the Renaissance Centre Box Office at 919-435-9458. 

Writer's Night in the Forest is designed to promote local authors and their works. Each month the Renaissance Centre invites a different author to discuss a particular book and answer questions from the audience. 

Free and open to the public, the event typically concludes with a book signing by the featured author.

Our featured work on Sept. 10 will be 2015 Piedmont Laureate James Maxey's "Bad Wizard."

For more information, call the Renaissance Centre Box Office at 919-435-9458. 

The Wake Forest Renaissance Centre for the Arts hosts free, family-friendly movie showings at 10:30 am on the second Monday morning of each month.

Flix4kidz shows only G or PG rated children's and family films. Concessions, including popcorn and soft drinks, will be available for purchase.

September's featured movie is "Home." The film is rated PG.

For more information, call the Renaissance Centre Box Office at 919-435-9458. 

The Wake Forest Renaissance Centre for the Arts hosts free movie showings on the second Monday of each month at 3 pm.

Designed for adults ages 50 and over, "Free at 3" will feature a variety of film favorites and genres, including art and family films, as well as comedies, dramas, thrillers and more - often with a seasonal or historical theme.

Concessions, including popcorn and soft drinks, will be available for purchase.

September's featured movie is "Far From the Maddening Crowd." The film is rated PG-13.

For more information, call the Renaissance Centre Box Office at 919-435-9458. 

Forest Moon Theater will present "Deathtrap" at the Wake Forest Renaissance Centre for the Arts Sept. 18-20 and Sept. 24-26.

A successful writer of Broadway thrillers, whose recent plays have flopped and left him short on cash, will stop at nothing-including murder-to improve his fortunes.

An abundance of twists, surprises and laughter await you in this classic thriller by Ira Levin. Cue Magazine describes it as being "Two-thirds a thriller and one-third a devilishly clever comedy.... Suspend your disbelief and be delighted. Scream a little. It's good for you."

This production is rated PG-13 due to mature content and language.

Advance tickets are $15 (plus tax) for adults and $13 (plus tax) for students and seniors. Tickets will go on sale in the coming days.

For more information, contact the Renaissance Centre Box Office at 919-435-9458.

 

Squonk Opera will offer two performances of "Pneumatica" on Sunday, Sept. 27, at 3 pm and 5 pm and two more on Monday, Sept. 28, at 10 am and 11:30 am.

Free and open to area residents of all ages, these outdoor performances will be held in the Renaissance Centre parking lot, 405 S. Brooks St.

"Pneumatica" is an event about air, made of air and powered by air. The Squonkers pump up the volume with live original music that permeates the air, while inflatables pump up and immerse the audience. 

Figures and tentacles grow, powered by blowers and vortex fans, and culminate in the 40-foot high Lady Pneumatica who incorporates a wind turbine on her head. She blossoms with sails, breathing steam and raising her inflated arms to the sky. Squonk's music incorporates the swoops and eddies of air with electronic bagpipes and a vertical accordion that is Lady Pneumatica's lungs, played like a piano while it rises and falls with her breath. Playing with visual puns, air is used to activate costumes - Squonkers inflate like blowfish and musically activate headtubes with wild guitar and bass riffs.  

With the creation of Pneumatica, the Squonkers continue to pursue the most American and democratic of art forms: the public celebration, with boisterous music and surreal image. Squonk taunts and whispers, bellows and caresses, using the very medium of sound: air.

So, bring your family and friends, a lawn chair and/or blanket, and settle in for boisterous music, blowers, wind turbines, a 40-foot tall Lady Pneumatica statue and a one-of-a-kind spectacle themed around air.

For more information, visit  www.squonkopera.org/ or call the Renaissance Centre Box Office at 919-435-9458.  

Nationally acclaimed, Defamation is a riveting courtroom drama that explores the highly charged issues of race, religion, gender, class and the law with a twist: your audience is the jury.

More than a play, "Defamation" is a unique opportunity for your community to engage in civil discourse about the most pressing social issues of our day. For more information, visit www.defamationtheplay.com/index.html. 

Tickets are $15 (plus tax) for adults and $12 (plus tax) for students and seniors and will go on sale in the coming weeks.

For more information, call the Renaissance Centre Box Office at 919-435-9458.  

Neck of the Woods is a variety performance series that features emerging local artists. 

An evening may consist of several performance arts acts. Each show is different and may include actors, dancers, musicians, comedians, writers and spoken word artists. 

Come out and enjoy a truly unique and entertaining event and support your local artists! Cash bar for wine, beer and other refreshments. This event is presented and sponsored by Wake Forest ARTS! 

Tickets are $5 (plus tax) per person and will go on sale in the coming weeks.

For more information, call the Renaissance Centre Box Office at 919-435-9458.  

Forest Moon Theater will present "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" at the Wake Forest Renaissance Centre for the Arts Dec. 11-13.

It's time for the annual church Christmas pageant, but this year the couple in charge must cast the horrible Herdman kids, some of the most awful children in town. The results provide plenty of pepto-bismol moments-and fun-when the Herdman herd brings new meaning to the Christmas spirit. 

This family comedy is based on the only story to ever run twice in McCall's Magazine.

Tickets go on sale in the coming weeks!

For more information, call the Renaissance Centre Box Office at 919-435-9458.