Evan Rachel Wood returns to her roots to do a fundraiser for her father’s NC theater

If you live in Raleigh, North Carolina you can go see Queen Sophie-Anne in Romeo and Juliet..pretty cool and help raise money for the theatre !

RALEIGH, N.C. — Evan Rachel Wood has a starring role in the soon-to-be-released Woody Allen film and guest-stars in “True Blood.” She’s got a racy photo spread in the latest issue of GQ, and she hopes to play Mary Jane in the Broadway production of “Spider-Man.”

So why did the 21-year-old Raleigh native return home starring as Juliet in six performances of “Romeo and Juliet” (starting Friday) as a fundraiser for Theatre In The Park, which her father manages?

“It was where I started,” the actress said in an interview between rehearsals last week. “I wouldn’t be an actress, I wouldn’t be who I am if this place wasn’t here. I wanted to do something to give back to it, to somehow repay it for what it gave to me.”

Read on