Koka Booth Amphitheatre
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The Koka Booth Amphitheatre at Regency Park is a performing arts
Performing arts
The performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object...
amphitheatre
Amphitheatre
An amphitheatre is an open-air venue used for entertainment and performances.There are two similar, but distinct, types of structure for which the word "amphitheatre" is used: Ancient Roman amphitheatres were large central performance spaces surrounded by ascending seating, and were commonly used...
in Cary, North Carolina
Cary, North Carolina
Cary is a large town and suburb of Raleigh, North Carolina in Wake and Chatham counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Located almost entirely in Wake County, it is the second largest municipality in that county and the third largest municipality in The Triangle after Raleigh and Durham...
. It is located in Regency Park, which is owned and operated by the Town of Cary; the venue is managed by Spectacor Management Group
Spectacor Management Group
SMG, formerly Spectacor Management Group, is a worldwide venue management group headquartered in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, that specializes in managing publicly owned facilities. SMG was a joint venture in general partnership form with two equal principals: The Hyatt Hotel Company and...
. The venue was formerly known as The Amphitheatre at Regency Park prior to the town's decision to name it after former Cary mayor Koka Booth
Koka Booth
Koka Booth is a former Mayor of Cary, North Carolina, a position in which he served for twelve years. He returned to his former position at the SAS Institute after retiring from politics...
. It was constructed in 2001 on the north bank of the park's Symphony Lake. The Booth Amphitheatre is located on Regency Parkway in southern Cary, which can be accessed by US 1/US 64 via the Tryon Road exit. The venue predominantly serves the Triangle
The Triangle (North Carolina)
The Research Triangle, also known as Raleigh-Durham and commonly referred to as simply "The Triangle", is a region in the Piedmont of North Carolina in the United States, anchored by North Carolina State University, Duke University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and cities of...
area. The amphitheater, as well as adjacent Regency Park, plays host to the annual Cary 5K/10K, as of 2005.
Entertainment
The Booth Amphitheatre has hosted many festivals and a number of concerts by the North Carolina SymphonyNorth Carolina Symphony
The North Carolina Symphony is an American orchestra based in Raleigh, North Carolina, with sixty-nine full time musicians. The orchestra performs in Meymandi Concert Hall and performs occasionally with the Carolina Ballet and the The Opera Company of North Carolina. In 2007, the organization...
and numerous other performers.