Other Events Burning Coal Theater Company presents the haunting ghost story, The Weir, by Conor McPherson. The production, directed by Jerome Davis, is running through September 17. All performances take place at North Carolina State University's Thompson Studio Theatre in downtown Raleigh. This program, which is part of the Sights and Sounds on Sundays concert series, takes place at the Museum on September 17 at 3 p.m. Tickets will be available for purchase at the door. Soprano Terry Rhodes and pianist Jane Hawkins will perform the opera on September 16 at 8 p.m. in the Nelson Room of the East Duke Building on Duke's East Campus.
Admission is free and open to the public.
The Center for Peace Education is hosting a Concert for Peace on September 17 at 3 p.m. in Weaver Auditorium, of the Durham School of the Arts, N. Duke Street, in Durham. Members of the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle and other local orchestras and youth musicians will be conducted by Lorenzo Muti in a performance of Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man and A Lincoln Portrait, narrated by John Hope Franklin. Other works will also be performed. Youth 16 and under may attend free of charge. N.C. The North Carolina Shakespeare Festival presents its production of Hamlet.