Burning Coal Theatre Company, a small professional theatre based in Raleigh, North Carolina announces its upcoming production of Crowns by ReGina Taylor, directed by Rebecca Holderness. The production will run December 2 - 19, 2010 at the Murphey School, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh. Performances are Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets are $20 or $15 for students, seniors and active military. Thursday night tickets are $10 apiece. Student rush tickets are available at every performance for $5 apiece, availability pending.
Sunday, December 5th at 2 p.m. is our "Pay What You Can" performance, and it will be audio described for the visually impaired. On Saturday, December 12th at 6:00 pm, our ongoing "Lobby Lecture" series will feature a short performance by the Ward-Ingram Gospel Choir of the First Baptist Church of Wilmington Street in Raleigh. Tickets to this lecture/performance will be $5 available only at the door. The event will be free to those holding a valid ticket to any performance of the run of Crowns.
For tickets and information, please call 919.834.4001 or visit our website at www.burningcoal.org. Based on the 'coffee table' book by Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry, ReGina Taylor's gospel musical Crowns deals with a young African American woman from New York City who, following a personal trauma, is sent to live with relatives in the Carolinas. She must learn to accept their customs and come to terms with her own past.
The cast of Crowns includes Milwaukee based dance theatre artist Naima Adepo and Triangle-based actors LaDawna Atkins, Emilia Cowans, Paul Garrett, Joan J, Sherida McMullan, Yolanda Rabun and Charles Streeter. Rebecca Holderness is on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee. Her recent productions there include Mr. Melancholy by Matt Cameron and From These Green Heights by Dermot Bolger, both of which received critical raves from the Milwaukee press. Her production of The Life of Spiders (2004) was hailed by Margot Jefferson of the New York Times. She has directed acclaimed productions of Miss Julie (2006), James Joyce's 'The Dead', Travesties, A Doll House, Einstein's Dreams (twice), Love's Labours Lost, and Romeo & Juliet for Burning Coal. Other credits include Cymbeline, Winter's Tale and The Rover, the world premiere of Edith Wharton's Glimpses of the Moon (Shakespeare & Company) and The Cherry Orchard (Yale University). Also for Shakespeare & Co.: Henry IV (Asst. to Tina Packer). New York: Riddles of Bamboo at Lincoln Center Theatre Lab, Feral Music at Tiny Mythic, One Million Butterflies at Julliard. Rebecca holds an MFA from Columbia University, a BA from Vassar College and was a Drama League and Lincoln Center Theatre Lab Director.
For further information, please contact Burning Coal's managing director, Simmie Kastner, at 919.834.4001 or visit our website at www.burningcoal.org.
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