Staged between late May and August, this outdoor play, written by Pulitzer Prize–winning North Carolina playwright Paul Green, dramatizes the fate of 116 British colonists who disappeared without a trace from their Roanoke Island settlement in the late 1580s. It plays at the Waterside Theater throughout summer.
Lost Colony Outdoor Drama
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