PlayMakers Announces 2020-21 Season of Comedies
The season will feature new and classic comedies that run the gamut of human experience.
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PlayMakers Season Marks 100 Years of Playmaking at UNC Chapel Hill
The theatre’s “Legacy | NOW” season will include a slate of new work combined new angles on older work.
Freedom Riders Ride Again in Mike Wiley’s ‘Parchman Hour’
His account of a seminal Civil Rights moment, staged partly with students at Virginia Stage, is a call to action for a new generation of activists.
Enter Stage Right
Conservative theatremakers, some emboldened by Trump’s election, look for inroads onstage.
5 Artistic Directors in Search of the Perfect Theatre Season
How these leaders put their stamp on long-running theatres they inherited.
Vivienne Benesch Honored With SDC’s Fichandler Award
PlayMakers’s producing artistic director receives an award named for one of her mentors and idols.
Connie Mahan: An Enthusiast, and Not Only for All Things British
PlayMakers’ communications director had both particular tastes and a welcoming curiosity.
Places to Go: Theatres Embrace the All-Gender Bathroom
As an absurd fight over transgender bathroom rights intensifies, theatres can lead by freeing their own facilities from the binary.
PlayMakers Rep Creates 2 New Leadership Positions
Justin Haslett has been named managing director, and Jerry Ruiz has been named associate artistic director.
The Great Work Begins: Southern Theatres Respond to Anti-LGBTQ Laws
Theatres in North Carolina and Mississippi look to cooperation, not boycotts, as an effective means of protest.