Burning Coal Theatre Company Burning Coal Theatre Company is Raleigh's new professional equity theatre company, which produces riveting reexaminations of overlooked classic and modern plays, as well as new plays, whose themes and issues are of immediate concern to the audience. Race and gender non-specific casting are an integral component of their perspective, as is international viewpoint. Each year, the National Opera Company produces fully-staged and costumed classic opera sung in English by a resident opera troupe of 15 young singers at Jones Auditorium on the Meredith College campus. Dedicated to expanding the public's appreciation of opera, the company offers 75 free performances across the state featuring three or four different operas per year. Performances in the Greater Raleigh area have not yet been determined.
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The OCNC has won accolades for its uncompromising professional standards, internationally renowned casts and sold-out performances. Raleigh Ensemble Players Theatre Company Entering its 20th season, Raleigh Ensemble Players employs local actors and technicians to premiere contemporary off-Broadway productions annually at Artspace Gallery II in downtown Raleigh's City Market. Williams' retelling of this classic unveils and explores the passion that drives all artists to create, and the longing that inspires all humans to love. The Greater Raleigh CVB is a non-profit agency that promotes Raleigh and Wake County for convention and visitor business to enhance the economic growth and development of the area.