2013/2014 Season Subscriptions are now available. Buy yours today!  Your mainstage subscription will include a ticket to each of our 4 Main Stage Shows.  Please subscribe today and join Burning Coal as it heats up downtown with a season of excitement, passionate energy and fun.  Warning:  Thoughts will be provoked!

The Heretic by Richard Bean (American Premiere)
   directed by Jerome Davis
(Three Man) Tempest by William Shakespeare
   directed by Randolph Curtis Rand
The Jesus Fund (World Premiere) by Terry Milner
   directed by Beth Gardiner
The Diary of Anne Frank by Hackett and Goodrich
   directed by Abdelfattah Abusrour

KidsWrite 2013!

To encourage the young writers of North Carolina, Burning Coal will hold its 6th annual festival of new plays, written by students from 6th grade to 12th grade.  The KidsWrite 2013 Festival of New Plays will include:

- Wide Eyed and Barely Six Years Old by Arya Sundaram of Raleigh Charter School
- Effects by Courtney Pisano of Enloe High School
- 60 Percent by Louis Dohanich of Wake Young Men’s Leadership Academy  

The production will be directed by Zia Affronti Morter and Burning Coal’s artistic director, Jerome Davis.

These young writers someday hope to make a big splash in the theatre world. Come join us as they take the first step in that process.

A two week conservatory for students in grades 6-8 who want to explore all the possibilities the theatre offers.  Students learn techniques of movement, vocal production, and character study in the mornings and apply those techniques in rehearsing an original play in the afternoons, with a culminating production of that play created by the students themselves at the end of the session.  Taught by Burning Coal’s Director of Education.

STC Sr. is our intensive, three-week conservatory for high school students interested in rigorous, professional training.

The conservatories are led by:
 Jonathan Fitts (MFA, New York Uiversity & Burning Coal’s Education Director) will lead STC, Sr.and Rebecca Bossen, recently seen as Rosalind in Burning Coal’s As You Like It, will lead STC, Jr.

Last year, we  were joined by guest artists from colleges and professional theatres around the state, including UNC/PlayMaker’s lead actor Ray Dooley.  Similar quality educators will be hired again this year!  Students will learn a wide variety of subjects and techniques in classes with guest artists from fine educational institutions and professional theatres like: Read More »

Watch the STC Promo

Join Burning Coal’s Artistic Director, Jerome Davis, as he teaches his annual, eight-week scene study class based on the concepts expressed in Uta Hagen’s landmark book Respect for Acting. Davis studied with Uta Hagen at HB Studios in New York for seven years. Class will be founded in Hagen’s “object exercises.” Students will have the opportunity to work each week on scenes Read More »