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Explore our 2025/26 Artist Lineup

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We’ve got lots of important dates coming up this summer. Mark you calendars and make sure you’re subscribed to our newsletter to be first-in-line for this awe-inspiring season.

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  • July 1, 2025

    2025/26 artists are announced.

  • August 13, 2025

    Create Your Own Series Subscriptions go on sale.

  • August 18, 2025

    Students get priority tickets to see The Second City during Wolfpack Welcome Week.

  • August 20, 2025

    Public tickets open for The Second City.

  • September 4, 2025

    Single tickets become available for purchase for Mainstage performances.

NC State LIVE | UPCOMING MAINSTAGE PERFORMANCES

The Second City cast members perform improvisation on stage.

The Second City
AUG 22 at 7:30 p.m.
Stewart Theatre
Wolfpack Welcome Week

Our favorite improv comedy superstars are back to celebrate Wolfpack Welcome Week 2025. Come see the troupe that launched the careers of Keegan-Michael Key, Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Jason Sudeikis, and more.

Students are first in line for tickets and get a FREE NC State LIVE t-shirt at the show! The Second City go on sale for students on August 18, 2025.

Yilian Canizares smiles in profile against yellow background.

Yilian Cañizares
SEPT 20 at 7:30 p.m.
Stewart Theatre

Kick off the season with Yilian Cañizares, a must-see artist. Staying true to her Cuban roots, she skillfully blends jazz violin, classical and Afro-Cuban rhythms with her otherworldly voice.

Collaborator Chucho Valdés calls her a “virtuoso.” Trained in Caracas’ El Sistema program, she burst onto the scene at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2008 and has since collaborated with luminaries like Omar Sosa, Chucho Valdés, and Ibrahim Maalouf. Come be transported by Yilian’s mesmerizing sound. 

Dancers climb up to be suspended in a colorful net.

Rebecca Lazier’s
NOLI TIMERE
OCT 10 & 11 at 7:30 p.m.
Stewart Theatre

Latin for ‘be not afraid,’ NOLI TIMERE is a soaring aerial dance performance set in a custom designed, voluminous Echelman net sculpture suspended 25 feet in the air! The innovative collaboration between Choreographer Rebecca Lazier and renowned sculptor Janet Echelman, with live music by acclaimed Québécois composer Jorane, is a fusion of contemporary dance and avant-garde circus; art installation and advanced engineering; public sculpture and awe-inspiring experimentation.

Join us for a week of interdisciplinary events on campus inspired by NOLI TIMERE.

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