A Little Oompah Celebrate Oktoberfest at Manteo's Weeping Radish Brewery and Bavarian Restaurant with The Little German Band, special Marzen beer and great German food. Be back at 11 a.m. Dec. 2 for the town's Annual Christmas Parade, featuring floats, bands and Santa. Island Stages Learn about one of history's greatest mysteries when The Lost Colony, America's longest running outdoor drama, opens for its 63rd season on June 2. The play tells the story of the first band of English settlers in North America, who landed on Roanoke Island in 1587 but had disappeared without a trace by the time their captain returned from Europe with supplies three years later.
Group discounts available.
Enjoy a Summer Arts Festival of drama, chamber and orchestral music, jazz, ballet and modern dance when the North Carolina School of the Arts takes residence at Roanoke Island Festival Park, from June 27 and through August 12. Two performances daily Tuesdays through Saturdays at 2 p.m. in the Film Theater and 8 p.m. in the outdoor Pavilion, which seats 3,500. The admission fee to the park's exhibits gets you admission to the indoor performances, but seating is limited to 230, so you may want to queue up. Show times are 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays. Tuesday Afternoons from June 13 through Aug. 22, when Hird is at the Elizabethan Gardens with Elizabeth R, a portrayal of the legendary 16th Century Queen of England.