![]() On a Friday night in October, air thick with popcorn butter, Christie Ashley Canter stepped into the historic Rialto Theater and felt her wild youth rushing back - a tradition of underwear runs, toilet paper fights and costumes made from sequins and ripped stockings.Īlmost 40 years ago, when she was a high school kid from Roxboro, she would pile in a car full of friends and drive 50 miles to Raleigh and see “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” every weekend, dressed as her favorite character, Columbia, in a tight black skirt.Īnd here it was again, her boisterous youth reborn inside the newly reopened Rialto, Raleigh’s beloved and charmingly outdated theater, which had somehow dodged the wrecking ball and flung its doors open to a new generation of eccentrics. ![]() Here are some Raleigh favorites that didn’t survive Who’s playing at The Rialto? An upcoming holiday guide to Raleigh’s reopened theater Rebirth of the Rialto: A group of DIY dreamers gives beloved Raleigh theater a new life They played the Rialto? From Devo to Mojo to Arlo, big-time musicians performed here.
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