(May. 8 8:20 PM) - Burning Coal Theatre Company has just announced its new season of plays for the coming 2012/2013 season including BRIGADOON and RUINED.

(May. 8 6:22 PM) - FatMouth Improv will pursue the answer all of America wants to know on Saturday May 19th at the Common Ground Theatre, Durham at 8 p.m. with special guest Ken Wolpert & Musical Accompanist Glenn Mehrbach.

(May. 7 12:30 AM) - Burning Coal Theatre Company’s Artistic Director, Jerome Davis, and Education Director Ian Finley teach this class on the art of public speaking. Dates and times are today, May 7 through May 28, 2012, Mondays from 6:30-9:30 pm. The class costs $120, due at the first class. Classes will take place at the Murphey School, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh, NC. For further information, visit www.burningcoal.org. To register, call 919-834-4001.

(May. 5 8:31 PM) - Wicked has clearly established itself as a runaway success, so I don’t think what people need now is my personal “review” of the show. Ever since being nominated for the Tony Award for best musical, people have known that the show is good. But I do want to put in my two cents about seeing the touring company at the Durham Performing Arts Center.

(May. 3 4:05 PM) - The TONY Awards Nominators had their say earlier this week and now it's your turn! We're pleased to announce that voting has now opened for the 10th Annual BroadwayWorld.com Awards!

(May. 3 3:56 PM) - DSI Comedy Theater is giving audiences a reason to keep their cell phones on during live comedy with their newest endeavor, Social COMedia.

(May. 2 2:38 PM) - Internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant joins the North Carolina Symphony for a one-night-only performance of music from her latest album, Leave Your Sleep, alongside new and previously recorded songs. Just sixty seats remain for this crossover concert in Raleigh’s Meymandi Concert Hall, Tuesday, May 29 at 7:30 p.m.

(May. 2 11:44 AM) - This May, DSI Comedy Theater is taking on musical theater as it introduces the fully improvised musical, Choose Your Own Musical!. This take on musical theater runs Saturdays in May and June at 9:30 p.m. starting Saturday May 12.

(May. 2 10:32 AM) - Later this month, North Carolina Symphony fans can! The orchestra, led by Resident Conductor and Summerfest Artistic Director William Henry Curry, launches the 2012 edition of its Rex Healthcare Summerfest Series with “Summerfest Opening Night” at Cary’s Booth Amphitheatre.

(May. 1 5:39 AM) - Burning Coal's Jude the Obscure, Parts 1 & 2 by Ian Finley, Jon Fitts and Bruce Benedict has entered its final week. Remaining performances are Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 pm and Saturday afternoon at 2 pm. Part 1 runs Thursday evening and Saturday afternoon. Part 2 runs Friday and Saturday evening.

(Apr. 30 9:55 PM) - There’s a first time for everything. This past weekend marked the first time I saw a play in which one of the main characters is a robot. You’re going to have to trust me that it’s not quite as strange as it sounds – it’s Deep Dish Theater Company’s production of Alan Ayckbourn’s Henceforward…. So, R2-D2 doesn’t take the stage, but two of the actresses share the role of a NAN300F, a robot originally designed to care for children.

(Apr. 29 12:30 AM) - Tony Award-winning actress and Raleigh native, Beth Leavel, stars as ‘M’Lynn’ in North Carolina Theatre's production of Steel Magnolias. The play ends its run tonight, April 29, in A.J. Fletcher Theater at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Raleigh.

(Apr. 27 5:11 PM) - A festival of devised work centering on the theme of politics from across the southeastern United States and beyond, June 28 – July 8, 2012 at Burning Coal Theatre Company’s Murphey School Auditorium, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh, North Carolina. All tickets to all performances $5. No reservations necessary. For further information, call 919-834-4001 or visit us online at www.burningcoal.org. A complete listing of performances and events will be forthcoming.

(Apr. 27 3:10 PM) - Burning Coal Theatre Company and SheCow Productions present For Colored Girls Who’ve Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange.

(Apr. 27 12:30 AM) - Now in its ninth year, APASSIONATA Europe’s most successful live entertainment show, featuring more than 40 horses and seen by more than five million fans in over forty cities, will make its North American debut today, April 27, 2012, at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky. The new show entitled “The Beginning” will kick off an eighteen month, sixty-six city arena North American tour.

(Apr. 26 3:20 PM) - Burning Coal Theatre Company of Raleigh, NC today announced the following play scripts that will be produced as part of the KidsWrite 2012 Festival of New Plays.

(Apr. 26 10:09 AM) - This summer, the North Carolina Symphony will present eight free outdoor concerts in communities across the state. Beginning with a program featuring several all-American favorites, May 31-June 4, and including the Symphony’s popular Independence Day concerts, July 1-4, and “Pops in the City” in the Raleigh Amphitheatre, Sept. 9, these performances collectively labeled “Concerts in Your Community” are a gift to the people of North Carolina to launch the Symphony’s 80th year of service to the state.

(Apr. 25 4:04 PM) - Vocalist Steve Lippia joins the North Carolina Symphony next month to celebrate a true American original, Frank Sinatra. The orchestra, led by Resident Conductor William Henry Curry, presents “Simply Sinatra” at Raleigh’s Meymandi Concert Hall on Friday and Saturday, May 18-19 at 8:00 p.m.