PURE Theatre

Charleston's contemporary regional theatre company. Southern Roots | Global Ideas

Season 23 on sale now ✨
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06/05/2026

Thank you to our friends at Charleston Living Magazine for the shoutout on our upcoming season! Read more here 👉 https://loom.ly/6tZlQI4

06/03/2026

Happy Pride Month from our PURE Theatre family to yours 🏳️‍🌈

This month and every month, we encourage you to support local Pride organizations like our friends at We Are Family, Charleston Black Pride, Charleston Pride, and many more by donating, attending events, and showing up for your community; because showing up matters.

Most importantly, remember: you are loved. ❤️

06/01/2026

Season 24 is calling…and trust us, you’ll want to hold onto this one. 🤝

Tickets are officially on sale now, get yours at www.puretheatre.org!

05/27/2026

Like what you see so far? Save even more (and get a bunch of perks!) when you become a Flex Pass member before May 31! 🎭

Season 24 Flex Passes include:
🎟️ Five flexible tickets and concierge ticketing services
⭐ Exclusive invitations to special events
💰 Discounts on tickets for friends and guests
🍽️ Access to discounts at some of Charleston's best restaurants through our Dining Benefits Program, brought to you by Charleston Arts Festival!

The sale ends Monday, so get it while you can! Find out more and join today at the 🔗 in our comments.

05/25/2026

Get a taste of the season to come with our Preseason Summer Slam: RED SHIRTS, a gripping anthology series that thrusts us into the lives of men on the margins at the exact moment everything changes.

These are the so-called “expendables”: the background players, the small-time criminals, the almost-good fathers, the professionals past their prime. Men who’ve spent their lives being told they don’t matter… until suddenly, they do. Each episode captures the instant of brutal clarity when the illusion falls away, and a man is forced to confront who he truly is. Sometimes it’s just before everything explodes. Sometimes it’s in the wreckage after. In these charged, high-stakes moments, buried truths surface, choices carry irreversible consequences, and the line between victim and villain blurs beyond recognition.

Raw, tense, and unflinching, RED SHIRTS explores what happens when ordinary men are pushed to extraordinary limits - and whether, in the end, they were ever as insignificant as the world believed.

05/22/2026

In Austin, where everyone is one good idea away from becoming something, Amy, Charlie, and Liz are working front of house at a restaurant, telling themselves it’s just a stop along the way.

Amy is certain her big break is right around the corner.
Charlie already had his - and would rather not revisit it.
Liz walked away from her old life to follow her bliss… and is still waiting for it to show up.

They flirt, bicker, and close down the bar night after night, promising themselves a change is coming. Then, one evening, in the way bad ideas often do, something clicks - and suddenly they’re off on a wildly funny, fast-moving ride fueled by late nights, risky choices, and a chemistry that refuses to be ignored. From Josh Tobiessen comes a hilariously chaotic story about the moments that make you feel most alive - and how quickly they can spin everything out of control.

05/20/2026

In a small, tightly bound community, the women have found a way to keep themselves safe. They share it quietly, pass it hand to hand, and never speak of it beyond their circle. But safety comes at a cost.

As whispers begin to spread and the fragile balance of power shifts, what began as an act of protection starts to take on a more dangerous shape. Because once you decide who deserves to be spared…you also decide who doesn’t.

05/18/2026

When a long-forgotten photo album arrives at a museum, it seems at first to be a remarkable historical find. But as archivists begin to examine the images more closely, a chilling truth emerges. The photographs - scenes of laughter, leisure, and everyday connection - were taken at Auschwitz, not by its victims, but by the officers and staff who kept the camp running and life comfortable within it.

As the album is studied, debated, and eventually shared with the public, it sparks a searching and deeply unsettling reckoning: how do we confront images that reveal the ordinary lives behind extraordinary cruelty? Who is responsible for remembering - and how? Drawn from real events, HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES is a gripping, quietly devastating exploration of memory, complicity, and the stories we tell about the past and about ourselves.

05/15/2026

At the Museum of Late Human Antiquities, curators piece together the fragments of a vanished civilization. How did humans live? What did they cherish? What did they believe would endure? As glimpses of life flicker into view - moments of invention, intimacy, ambition, and connection - the analog world begins to dissolve into something faster, smarter, and far harder to define.

Hailed as a “brilliantly imagined drama” (The Wall Street Journal), Jordan Harrison brings us this haunting exploration of what we leave behind and what continues on without us.

05/13/2026

Kicking off Season 24 is CHURCH WARS, a World Premiere new play from Fred Thompson.

When a struggling church bets its future on a community cookbook of cherished family recipes, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Each dish is more than a meal - it’s a church member's legacy. But when it’s time to decide what makes the cut, devotion gives way to rivalry, and things get…complicated.

From the brilliant mind of Fred Thompson comes a razor-sharp mockumentary-style play about what we hold sacred - and just how far we’ll go to protect it.

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