Online This Week: We Three Categories
Concerts, a ‘Carol’ or 3, and a surfeit of readings, benefits, and other virtual theatre kick off December in abundant style.
All Stories About PlayMakers Repertory Company
PlayMakers Announces 2020-21 Season of Comedies
The season will feature new and classic comedies that run the gamut of human experience.
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.