Every fall, Burning Coal Theatre presents a series of short plays from Raleigh and Triangle playwrights as outdoor theatre.
The 2025 Oakwood series has concluded, but come back soon for information about our 2026 production!
Join us as we shine the spotlight on those laid to rest in Historic Oakwood Cemetery – Raleigh whose names are well-known, and those unnamed whose past lives remain a mystery.
The 2025 Oakwood series has concluded, but come back soon for information about our 2026 production.
Every fall, Burning Coal Theatre partners with the historic Oakwood Cemetery to present a plays based on the lives of people buried in the Oakwood Cemetery, their partners, neighbors, associates and nemeses’.
The historic figures represented in our plays are selected through annual recommendations from the cemetery’s historians. When writing the plays, we aim to create characters based closely on historical evidence with an objective of educating the public about Raleigh’s local history. Playwrights will also include fictional elements to support their story.
Playwrights from around the Triangle and sometimes beyond will craft these short plays that look at the comical, the tragic, the dastardly and the utterly heroic lives of those who came before and upon whose shoulders, for better and for worse, the Capital City was built.
Read more about the 2024 Oakwood Series in this article published in Midtown Magazine:
“Bringing Them Home and Burning Coal’s Oakwood Cemetery Series”, by Elizabeth Brignac
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