Shadows in Red Light
A concert version of a new musical set during the AIDS epidemic in New York City.A single mother thinks she is placing her baby in...
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Danger!
A wild solo show about a man who is convinced his neighbor’s son is a changeling, and the lengths he will go to prove this...
Danger!
A wild solo show about a man who is convinced his neighbor’s son is a changeling, and the lengths he will go to prove this...
Shadows in Red Light
A concert version of a new musical set during the AIDS epidemic in New York City.A single mother thinks she is placing her baby in...
Shadows in Red Light
A concert version of a new musical set during the AIDS epidemic in New York City.A single mother thinks she is placing her baby in...
Danger!
A wild solo show about a man who is convinced his neighbor’s son is a changeling, and the lengths he will go to prove this...
Shadows in Red Light
A concert version of a new musical set during the AIDS epidemic in New York City.A single mother thinks she is placing her baby in...
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Review: Raleigh Little Theatre’s SCHOOL OF ROCK
by Jeffrey Kare - June 06, 2026
Based on Richard Linklater's 2003 film of the same name. School of Rock follows Dewey Finn, a down-on-his-luck wannabe rock star who poses as a substitute teacher at a prestigious prep school....
Review: DEAR EVAN HANSEN at Theatre Raleigh
by April Sigler - June 04, 2026
Theatre Raleigh’s Dear Evan Hansen pairs a standout cast with inventive staging and powerful performances to deliver a deeply engaging evening of theatre. While the musical’s central themes feel more complicated with time, this production finds genuine heart in its exploration of loneliness, gri...
Review: HAMILTON National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center
by Jeffrey Kare - May 22, 2026
Based on Ron Chernow's 2004 biographical book titled Alexander Hamilton, this musical tells the true story of America's $10 Founding Father. The story begins when he was an immigrant who came to New York from the West Indies. Eventually, he became George Washington's right-hand man during the Revolu...
Review: BRIGHT STAR at Temple Theatre
by April Sigler - May 12, 2026
BRIGHT STAR at Temple Theatre is a heartfelt and beautifully staged celebration of North Carolina storytelling, brought to life by a standout local cast and exceptional live band. Filled with warmth, strong performances, and deep care at every level of production, the show proves Temple Theatre is a...
Review: THE GREAT GATSBY National Tour at Durham Performing Arts Center
by Jeffrey Kare - May 06, 2026
Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic 1925 novel of the same name. The Great Gatsby is set on Long Island, near New York City during the Jazz Age. The story centers on mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his obsession to reunite with his former lover Daisy Buchanan. This was one of two musical ...
Review: RIDE THE CYCLONE at Theatre Raleigh ACT
by April Sigler - April 24, 2026
Ride the Cyclone at Theatre Raleigh ACT is weird, high-energy, and a whole lot of fun. With standout vocals, strong ensemble work, and surprising emotional depth, this production proves these rising artists are ones to watch. Step right up and take the ride....
Review: STEEL MAGNOLIAS at PlayMakers Repertory Company
by April Sigler - April 11, 2026
What do you get when you have six sassy Southern women in a salon? Something truly special. Steel Magnolias at PlayMakers Repertory Company shines through a standout ensemble of deeply authentic, lived-in performances, balancing sharp humor with emotional depth....
Review: Theatre Raleigh's COME FROM AWAY
by Jeffrey Kare - April 02, 2026
Come From Away is based on a true story of when the isolated community of Gander, Newfoundland played host to the world. What started as an average day in a small Canadian town turned into an international sleep-over when 38 planes, carrying thousands of people from across the globe, were diverted t...
Review: Raleigh Little Theatre's 1776
by Jeffrey Kare - March 29, 2026
1776 tells the true story of how the United States of America was born. We follow John Adams as he attempts to convince members of the Second Continental Congress to vote for American independence from the shackles of the British monarchy....
Review: STEREOPHONIC at DPAC
by April Sigler - March 18, 2026
Stereophonic, the most Tony-nominated play of all time and winner of 5 Tony Awards including Best Play, offers a compelling fly-on-the-wall look at a 1970s rock band recording their next album. With strong performances and music that feels like a character of its own, the show immerses you in the cr...
Past Shows
Shadows in Red Light
A concert version of a new musical set during the AIDS epidemic in New York City.A single mother thinks she is placing her baby in...
Shadows in Red Light
A concert version of a new musical set during the AIDS epidemic in New York City.A single mother thinks she is placing her baby in...
Danger!
A wild solo show about a man who is convinced his neighbor’s son is a changeling, and the lengths he will go to prove this...
Danger!
A wild solo show about a man who is convinced his neighbor’s son is a changeling, and the lengths he will go to prove this...
Here in America
Burning Coal Theatre Company presents the US premiere of Here in America, a powerful play by David Edgar, directed by Jerome Davis. The narrative explores...
Oakwood Series 2025: Un/NAMED
Burning Coal Theatre Company is proud to present the collection of local historical plays Un/NAMED, directed by Hayley Philippart. Un/NAMED tells the stories of legacy,...
My Name is Rachel Corrie
My Name is Rachel Corrie , written by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner and drawn from the writings of Rachel Corrie, will be directed by Jeff...
Learning Curves
Burning Coal Theatre Company is proud to announce the premiere of the one-woman show Learning Curves, by Jake Lipman, developed in Matt Hoverman’s Go Solo...
WAIT TIL YOU SEE THIS! 2025: Forgive Us, Gustavito
Burning Coal Theatre Company presents Wait Til You See This! 2025, its Second Stage Series of collaborations with emerging artists. This year’s productions include Ride...
WAIT TIL YOU SEE THIS! 2025: Ride The Cyclone by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell
Burning Coal Theatre Company presents Wait Til You See This! 2025, its Second Stage Series of collaborations with emerging artists. This year’s productions include Ride...
WAIT TIL YOU SEE THIS! 2025: The Mansion of Many Apartments by Bronwen Carson
Burning Coal Theatre Company presents Wait Til You See This! 2025, its Second Stage Series of collaborations with emerging artists. This year’s productions include Ride...
WAIT TIL YOU SEE THIS! 2025: Sea Change by Tamara Kissane
Burning Coal Theatre Company presents Wait Til You See This! 2025, its Second Stage Series of collaborations with emerging artists. This year’s productions include Ride...
Gumrunners
Burning Coal Theatre Company presents KidsWrite! Festival 2025, celebrating one-act plays written by North Carolina students in grades 6-12. This year's festival features seven original...
KidsWrite! Festival 2025
Burning Coal Theatre Company presents the KidsWrite! Festival 2025, showcasing original one-act plays written by North Carolina students in grades 6-12. This year's lineup includes...
Orpheus
Burning Coal Theatre Company presents the KidsWrite! Festival, showcasing original one-act plays created by North Carolina students in grades 6 through 12. This year's festival...
Phoebe Can’t Know
Phoebe Can’t Know explores the complexities of young love through the eyes of Evan and Phoebe, childhood friends whose feelings evolve as they grow older....
Ribbing
Ribbing is one of the seven original plays featured in the KidsWrite! Festival, showcasing one-act plays written by North Carolina students. Written by Abby Zwahlen,...
The Ballad of a Music Duo and Fairies
The Ballad of a Music Duo and Fairies is a whimsical journey created by 9th grader Caroline Zyla, featured in the KidsWrite! Festival at Burning...
Titanium Lovers
Titanium Lovers is set in the year 2080, where technology has drastically altered human connections. The story follows Adam, who inhabits an isolated apartment complex,...
What’s In A Name
Burning Coal Theatre Company presents the KidsWrite! Festival, showcasing original one-act plays written by North Carolina students in grades 6-12. The festival features seven finalist...
Merrily We Roll Along
Merrily We Roll Along, written by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth, is told in reverse chronological order and depicts the story of a successful and...
Being Chaka
Created by TEA Artistry, Being Chaka is a coming-of-age story in which souls from two worlds struggle for self and group transcendence as they take the...
Copenhagen
Burning Coal Theatre Company is proud to announce its production of Michael Frayn’s COPENHAGEN, directed by Jerome Davis. COPENHAGEN will run October 10th - 27th,...
2024 Oakwood Cemetery Series: Bringing Them Home
Bringing Them Home tells the stories of those who died in the many wars and conflicts that the United States has engaged in. After their...
Ex-Boyfriends
Dani Coan and and Burning Coal Theatre PRESENT: Ex-Boyfriends Written by Dani Coan, directed by Barbette Hunter and Amelia Lumpkin the Burning Coal Theatre stage Synopsis: Still to come. Dates: Thursday,...
Radio
RADIOby Al Smithdirected by Lucy Jane AtkinsonFeaturing Ben AppleOn the Burning Coal Theatre StageDates:Wednesday, June 5th at 7:30 pmSaturday, June 8th at 4:30 pmThursday, June 13th at 7:30...
Wait Til You See This! Second Stage Series
RALEIGH, NC- Burning Coal Theatre Company presents Wait Til You See This! 2024, its Second Stage Series of collaborations with emerging artists. This year’s productions...
Ghosts
Burning Coal Theatre PRESENTS:Ghosts, adapted by Lucius Robinson and Jerome Davis, directed by Jerome Davis, featuring Lucius RobinsonOn the Burning Coal Theatre StageSynopsis: Raleigh native and...
Home
Pure Life Theatre and Burning Coal Theatre Present:Home by Samm-Art Williams directed by Jade Arnold On the Burning Coal Theatre StageDates: Saturday,...
A Little night Music
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler / Directed by Jerome Davis / Musical Director Christian Stahr / April 4 – 21, 2024 Musical...
Hymn
HYMN by Lolita Chakrabarti / directed by marcus d. harvey / January 25 – February 11, 2024Joy of Family BrotherhoodHymn portrays a growing friendship between...
Moonlight
MOONLIGHT by Harold Pinter / Directed by Greg Hersov/ November 30 – December 17, 2023Modern Classic Relationship DramaMoonlight follows a riotous older man reflecting on his...
Arcadia
ARCADIA by Tom Stoppard / Directed by Jerome Davis / October 12 – 29, 2023Upbeat Witty ComedyA young mathematical genius studies with her tutor in...
Oakwood Cemetery Series: Butterfly Wings
Every October, Burning Coal Theatre partners with the historic Oakwood Cemetery to present plays based on the lives of people buried in the Oakwood Cemetery,...
FeaturedWorld Premier: Ona
On May 21, 1796, enslaved maid Ona Judge seized her freedom from the President's House in Philadelphia while George and Martha Washington ate dinner.
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CATS
Students ages 12-19 have been working closely with Burning Coal Theater along with Times Flies Circus to bring the iconic Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats...
OR, by Liz Duffy Adams
Choices abound for spy-turned-playwright Aphra Behn in a door-slamming, thought-provoking romp through the 1660’sAphra Behn, former British spy, will have fame and glory as England’s...
The Cherry Orchard
THE CHERRY ORCHARD by Anton Chekov, directed by Randolph Curtis RandQuirky Dramedy RevolutionaryIts workers vs. landlords in this brutally funny classic play. The old ways...
Mlima's Tale
MLIMAS TALE by Lynn Nottage, directed by Ana RadulescuThought Provoking Global DramaTheres a ghost on the Ivory Highway. It follows the tusk of an elephant...
Silent Sky
SILENT SKY by Lauren Gunderson, Directed by Rebecca HoldernessSTEAM Learning Courageous WomenHenrietta Leavitt dreams of being an astronomer, but isnt allowed to touch a telescope....
FeaturedFuddy Meers
When you don’t know who you are, who do you trust?Claire wakes up every morning with no memory of herself, her doting husband or her...
a great big woolly mammoth thawing from the ice
a great big woolly mammoth thawing from the iceby Tatty Hennessy Directed by Lucy Jane AtkinsonMystery AdventureIn Alaska, an activist, a tech giant, and an...
WHAT IF IF ONLY and AIR by Caryl Churchill
WHAT IF IF ONLY and AIR by Caryl ChurchillDirected by Ana RadulescuBurning Coal Theatre Company is honored to announce a repertory production of two new...
THE LIFE OF GALILEO by David Edgar
Burning Coal Theatre Company will be presenting Galileo by David Edgar directed by Jerome Davis. Galileo tells the true and thought provoking story of scientist...
ART by Yasmina Reza
Burning Coal Theatre Company will be presenting Art by Yasmina Reza. Serge, Marc, and Yvan have been close friends for fifteen years. A conflict amongst...
THE ROAD TO MECCA
RALEIGH, NC - Burning Coal Theatre Company is proud to announce the second play of our 25th anniversary (2021 2022) season. The play in question...
I and You
Burning Coal Theatre Company is proud to perform I and You by Lauren Gunderson. The play follows a young teenager, Caroline, who is housebound with...
Evita
Evita Lyrics by Tim Rice Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber directed by Jerome Davis June 17 – 27, 2021 Dorothea Dix Park – 1030 Richardson...
Girls and Boys
Girls and Boys by Dennis Kelly, directed by Ana RadulescuJune 11, 17, 19, 25th at 7:30 pm/June 13 & 27th at 2 pmJune 10 27,...
Nine Lives
NIne Lives by Zodwa NyonI, directed by Jordan LichtenheldJune 10, 12, 18, 24 & 26th at 7:30 pm/June 20th at 2 pmNine Lives is the...
Conversations I Always Wanted to Have: A Repertory Season of Two Plays by Dael Orlandersmith
Forever by Dael OrlandersmithDirected by Jordan Lichtenheldis a semi-autobiographical work that traces the tempestuous relationship between a young girl, growing up in East Harlem, and...
The 19th Amendment Project
Burning Coal Theatre Company in partnership with The League of Women Voters of Wake County are proud to present the 19th Amendment Project, a collection...
A Hundred Words for Snow
When the 15 year old Rory experiences loss for the first time in her life, it inspires her to set out on a journey to...
ACCORD(ing)
An immersive theatrical experience of large scale installations, soundscapes, physical theatre, and puppetry illuminating the mechanisms of the mind. Co-created and directed by Bronwen Carson...
FeaturedGoblin Market
Two proper Victorian sisters, both now grown women and mothers, return to their childhood nursery to relive the haunting memories of their youth. Magically, they...
Parallel Lives
By Kathy Najimy and Mo Gaffney. The sketch comedy show that originally made Kathy and Mo famous and was first performed at Theatre Project by...
Family Secrets
North Carolina Opera is pleased to present Family Secrets: Kith and Kin featuring soprano Andrea Edith Moore, who conceived and comissioned this new work composed...
The Woodstock Tontine
The Woodstock Tontine, a story beginning in 1969. Six women meet at Woodstock. Nearly fifty years later, when the first one dies, the remaining gals...
Shining City
An Irish ghost story by the author of The Weir, The Seafarer and St. Nicholas. Ian has opened his new office in a hip part...
Jailbait
In ‘Jailbait,’ high school sophomores Claire and Emmy, posing as college students, sneak into a Boston nightclub to meet ‘boys.’ Mark thinks a night out...
Videos
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Dear Evan Hansen Theatre Raleigh (6/03-6/21) |
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Almost Like A Dance Carolina Theater Workshop (6/26-6/27) |
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Mamma Mia! Durham Performing Arts Center (12/29-1/03) |
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Guns N’ Roses at Carter-Finley Stadium Carter-Finley Stadium (7/23-7/23) |
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A Girl Called Tiny The Plant (8/27-9/05) |
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Wednesdays: Live Music with The Olsons at Lucky 32 - GSO | No Cover!! Lucky 32 Southern Kitchen (6/24-6/24) |
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Count Arthur Strong - And Its Goodnight From Me! Durham Gala Theatre (2/24-2/24) |
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Death Becomes Her DPAC (11/10-11/15) |
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White Christmas Temple Theatre (12/03-12/20) |
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Operation Mincemeat DPAC (5/11-5/16) |
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