(09/08/2010) - Burning Coal Theatre Company will open its 2010/2011 season in Raleigh with a stage adaptation of Harper Lee's classic To Kill A Mockingbird. The production is written by Christopher Sergel and directed by Randolph Curtis Rand. It runs September 9 - 26, 2010 at the Murphey School, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh. Performances are Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 pm and Sundays at 2 pm. All tickets are $20 or $15 for students, seniors and active military. All Thursday night tickets are $10. The first Sunday of the run is audio described for the visually impaired and is also our 'Pay What You Can' performance. For tickets and information, please call 919-834-4001 or visit us online at www.burningcoal.org.
(09/07/2010) - As BroadwayWorld has previously reported, Universal Pictures Stage Productions, Working Title Films and Old Vic Productions will launch the second national tour of Billy Elliot the Musical beginning October 30 at the Durham Performing Arts Center. Tony Award-winner Faith Prince stars as Mrs. Wilkinson along with Giuseppe Bausilio, Michael Dameski, Kylend Hetherington, Lex Ishimoto and Daniel Russell in the role of 'Billy.' Rehearsals began today in New York City! BroadwayWorld brings you photo coverage of the meet and greet below.
(08/18/2010) - Lauren Kennedy (SPAMALOT, SUNSET BOULEVARD, LES MISERABLES) just about does it all when it comes to theatre; especially with her own company Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy. This year is no different at The Kennedy Theatre in Raleigh, NC. Kennedy makes a return to the stage as 'Emma' in TELL ME ON A SUNDAY tonight, August 18. BroadwayWorld brings you a first look at Kennedy in SUNDAY below!
(06/22/2010) - As has been widely reported, Artist David Ilan has been in the process of creating a Michael Jackson tribute painting using the pointillism style in which the paiting is comprised of dots. For the tribute, each dot represents a different influential person. At a special recognition ceremony yesterday, June 21, Ilan added a 'dot' in honor of Dr. Maya Angelou at Angelou's home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. David Ilan is attempting to get a million people, each being represented by a dot, to make up the Michael Jackson tribute portrait. Maya Angelou also read her Michael Jackson tribute poem, 'We Had Him,' at the event. BroadwayWorld brings coverage of the event below.
(06/06/2010) - Dozens of boys and girls auditioned this weekend for the chance to be part of the Second National Tour of Billy Elliot which launches at the Durham Performing Arts Center this fall. The auditions took place at the Carolina Dance Center in Raleigh with boys auditioning for the role of Billy on Saturday and girls auditioning for ensemble roles on Sunday.
(04/14/2010) - SOUTHEASTERN is a comedy by Winston-Salem based playwright Angus MacLachlan. It concerns a young writer living in that North Carolina city, working to make a life for himself in the arts while dealing with the very real needs of two women, his sister and a young college professor who has recently moved to town and taken up residence squarely in his heart.
(04/14/2010) - GEE'S BEND by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder is based on the true story of the quilters of Gee's Bend, Alabama, whose innovative quilts now hang in our nation's most prestigious art museums. Through family, faith, and quilting, the members of this isolated African-American community survived slavery, the Great Depression, and Jim Crow, in their journey toward becoming great American artists.
(02/03/2010) - Burning Coal Theatre Company of Raleigh, NC will present Conor McPherson's The Seafarer February 4 - 21, 2010 at Meymandi Theatre at the Murphey School, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh.
(01/28/2010) - Burning Coal Theatre Company of Raleigh, NC will present Conor McPherson's The Seafarer February 4 - 21, 2010 at Meymandi Theatre at the Murphey School, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh.
(12/03/2009) - Much Ado About Nothing December 3-20, 2009
'Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps' Shakespeare's lovely comedy about two equally matched partners... who can't stand each other!
(11/02/2009) - Cutthroat competition reaches new heights in Glengarry GLen Ross, David Mamet's Pulitzer prize-winning play presented by Deep Dish Theater Company running through November 14. This modern classic, directed by Deep Dish Artistic Director Paul Frellick, will continue the company's ninth season at University Mall.
(09/25/2009) - Clay Aiken attended a production of DRIFT last night at The Kennedy Theatre in Raleigh where Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy's production of DRIFT is playing it's final week. DRIFT was the first production to grace the new Lauren Kennedy and Alan Campbell Theatre at Barton College and ran from September 12-20, followed by a current run at The Kennedy Theatre at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts in Raleigh from September 23-27 to close the season.
(09/10/2009) - Hair by Ragni, Rado & McDermott hits the Burning Coal Theatre Company from September 10-27. The show is directed by Mark Sutch, has choreography by Robin Harris, Choreographer and musical direction by Brad Gardner.
(04/22/2009) - Westport Country Playhouse will open its 79th season with a wild adventure for adults and children alike, 'Around the World in 80 Days,' adapted from the book by Jules Verne, written by Mark Brown and directed by Michael Evan Haney, April 21 through May 9.
(04/16/2009) - Deep Dish Theater Company's eighth season concludes with the Chapel Hill premiere of Jitney by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson. It will be directed by Kathryn Hunter-Williams and will run from April 30 to May 23 at the company's home in Chapel Hill's University Mall.
(04/08/2009) - Burning Coal Theatre Company, a small professional, theatre based in Raleigh, North Carolina will conclude its 2008/2009 season with the world premiere of 1960, written by Ian Finley and the Burning Coal Theatre Company, directed by Jerome Davis, Burning Coal's Artistic Director. The production runs April 9 - 26, 2009 at Meymandi Theatre at the Murphey School, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh, NC. Performances are April 9 - 11, 16 -18 and 23 - 25 at 7:30 pm and April 12, 19 and 26 at 2 p.m.
(03/20/2009) - Delta Boys, a small theatre company in Raleigh, NC, will be teaming up with Burning Coal Theatre's Wait 'Til You See This! series to present Anton Chekov's classic The Cherry Orchard, directed by Kathryn Milliken. The production runs March 19-29, 2009 at Meymandi Theatre at the Murphey School, 224 Polk St., Raleigh, NC.
(02/06/2009) - New York actress Susan Oliveras has been chosen to portray the world's most famous Latina explorer -- Dora the Explorer -- in the upcoming tour of DORA THE EXPLORER LIVE!
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(02/05/2009) - Deep Dish Theater Company's eighth season continues with Uncle Vanya, Anton Checkhov's classic tale of love, loss and inconvenient truths. It will be directed by Deep Dish Artistic Director Paul Frellick and will run from February 19 to March 14 at the company's home in Chapel Hill's University Mall.
The play takes place in the waning days of 19th Century Russia, as the celebrated professor Serebryakov (Tom Marriott) returns to his rural estate with his young wife Yelena (Anne-Caitlin Donohue). Their arrival throws the household into upheaval, disrupting the quiet lives of the professor's daughter Sonya (Page Purgar), her uncle Vanya (Mark Filiaci), the local country doctor Astrov (David Berberian) and the estate's other occupants. Like all of Chekhov's plays, Uncle Vanya paints a portrait of a discontented aristocracy watching their traditions slip away, yet seeing no clear future.
(01/27/2009) - 'Lisa', the onstage playwright, attempts a memory play about her force-of-nature mother who though constantly ill manages to heal a community. Characters rebel at Lisa?s version of events, upending the story in a howlingly funny and emotionally powerful look at mother/daughter dynamics. This Tony-nominated Broadway sensation comes from the original voice of Lisa Kron, whose OBIE-winning 2.5 Minute Ride was a sold-out hit in last season's PRC2 series.
(01/23/2009) - PlayMakers Repertory Company in Chapel Hill presents Williams' masterpiece the way he always intended - as a break from 'the exhausted theatre of realistic conventions.' A moving tale of a mother/daughter relationship complicated by the daughter's disability, with universal themes of family conflict and dreams deferred, its groundbreaking theatrical form helped establish the memory play in the theatrical canon.
(01/20/2009) - Without question, Pink Floyd remains one of the most influential rock bands of all time. Their record-breaking status is legendary. Now, get ready for THE PINK FLOYD EXPERIENCE! Complete with 200,000 watts of light...full
quadraphonic sound and six brilliant musicians, this epic concert comes to the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts February 18 & 19 at 8 p.m. Today, years since their last live performance, Pink Floyd's appeal continues and spans the generations. Their shows were described as theatrical with mind-blowing lights and unsurpassed sound. The show is not only onstage...it engulfs the audience! THE PINK FLOYD EXPERIENCE is a full-on
sensory assault - interpretive videos, plane crashes, flying pig, helicopter - it's all there, LIVE! This is the show for the ultimate Floyd Fan! All of Pink Floyd's greatest hits are performed live including such favorites as 'Money,' 'Wish You Were Here,' 'Time,' 'Have A Cigar,'
'Comfortably Numb,' 'Another Brick in the Wall' and much more.
