Burning Coal Theatre Company presents the closing show of its 2011/2012 Second Stage Series, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf” by Ntozake Shange, directed by Karen Dacons-Brock. “For Colored Girls. . .” is a choreopoem, a series of 20 separate poems choreographed to music. The ensemble piece features seven African-American women who tell their interconnected stories of faith, love, empowerment and loss.

Cast:  Aurelia Belfield, LaKeisha Coffey, Emelia Cowans, Carly Jones, Kyma Lassiter, Sherida McMullan and Tara Whitney Rison

Estimated run time: 2 hours.

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The classic American musical by Lerner & Lowe, directed by Emily Ranii.  With choreography by Robin Harris and music direction by Julie Oliver.

Estimated run time: 2 hours.

“A stranger could stay if he loved someone here... not Brigadoon itself, mind, but someone in Brigadoon... enough to be willing to give up everything to stay near that person... which is only right because after all, lad... if you love someone deeply enough, anything is possible.”

An Irish ghost story

Estimated run time: 2 hours.

“When I got home, there was nothing untoward. Only, I remember now, because I heard it again, there was the sound, the tune of an ice cream van. But there couldn’t have been. Because they don’t go ‘round at night.”

A comedic romp

Estimated run time: 2 hours.

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool".

A holocaust drama with music

Estimated run time: 2 hours.

“You see, I’m not a political person…. Just now, whatever you do would be alright to do.”

A Story of hope in modern day Africa

Estimated run time: 2 hours.

“Art? Girl, survival is the only art I recognize.”