The martin marietta center for the performing arts - memorial auditorium works as the main venue for theater in Raleigh. The arena is located at 2 East South Street, Raleigh, North Carolina. The martin marietta center for the performing arts - memorial auditorium opened to the general public in 1932. The venue has different seating capacities which are distributed as 2,277 at Raleigh Memorial Auditorium, 1,700 at Meymandi Concert Hall, 600 at Fletcher Opera Theater, and 150 people can be seated at Kennedy Theatre.

Meymandi Concert Hall is home to the North Carolina Symphony. The place is named after the famous physician and philanthropist of Raleigh, Dr. Assad Meymandi. The Fletcher Opera Theater named after Alfred Johnston Fletcher. He was a pioneer of television broadcasting Raleigh. The theatre is home to the Carolina Ballet that still performed over 40 times at the venue nearly every season. The Kennedy Theatre is named after the Raleigh theatre patron, K.D. Kennedy Jr. and his wife, Sara Lynn.

The martin marietta center for the performing arts - memorial auditorium hosts regular performances where big organizations such as Raleigh Dance Theatre, Broadway Series South, Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy, North Carolina Symphony organize their events.