Events for October 5, 2025

Join Applause! Cary Youth Theatre for a theatrical celebration of man’s best friend as our youth performers present renditions of Go, Dogs, Go and I Want 100 Dogs in this family-friendly performance. As part of the Barktoberfest 2025 festivities, Cary Arts Center students participated in a multi-week class to hone their performing skills, culminating in this fun and public showcase at Downtown Cary Park. For more information: https://downtowncarypark.com/things-to-do/calendar/w_paws-applause-performance

Join Applause! Cary Youth Theatre for Shakespeare in the park! In As You Like It, lovers Rosalind and Orlando are forced into exile in the Forest of Arden and become entangled in a beguiling game of love, comedy, and mistaken identity. Applause’s free abridged 70-minute production features local teen performers and is the perfect opportunity for a family picnic and a show in the park.  For more information: https://downtowncarypark.com/things-to-do/calendar/w_shakespeare-live-as-you-like-it

Here is Rydell High’s senior class of 1959: duck-tailed, hot-rodding “Burger Palace Boys’ and their gum-snapping, hip-shaking “Pink Ladies” in bobby sox and pedal pushers, evoking the look and sound of the 1950s in this rollicking musical. Head “greaser” Danny Zuko and new (good) girl Sandy Dumbrowski try to relive the high romance of their “Summer Nights” as the rest of the gang sings and dances its way through such songs as “Greased Lightnin’,” “It’s Raining on Prom Night” and “Alone at the Drive-In Movie,” recalling the music of Buddy Holly, Little Richard and Elvis Presley that became the soundtrack of a generation. For Tickets: https://www.caryplayers.org/