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Review: ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ a spectacle

By Robert McNeely | November 17

A sense of mystery, mirth and magic consumed Paul Green Theatre Thursday night as PlayMakers Repertory Company’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” took ...

Caroline Strange plays the role of Cinderella in “Into the Woods.”

Playmakers' "Into the Woods" review

By Sarah McQuillan | November 14

Audience members fell into a storybook fairy tale from the moment they took their seats at PlayMakers Repertory Company’s production of “Into the ...

Lisa Brescia plays the Witch in PlayMakers Repertory Company's production of "Into The Woods."

PlayMakers opens 'Into the Woods' to rotate with 'Midsummer'

By Robert McNeely | October 31

The design of PlayMakers' latest undertaking is not immaterial.

PlayMakers preps for popular musical "Into the Woods"

By Drew Goins | October 12

PlayMakers Repertory Company is beating Disney to the punch.

PlayMakers Repertory Company Producing Artistic Director Joseph Haj is the 2014 recipient of the Zelda Fichandler Award.Photo courtesy of Connie Mahan. Photographer is Jenny Graham.

PlayMakers director Joseph Haj honored

By Everett Handy | October 9

Joseph Haj is a man who knows how to be versatile.

Tony Award-winning comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike opens tonight

By Robert McNeely | September 17

Family drama, theatric outbursts, Anton Chekhovian themes and buoyant buffoonery are coming together on the Paul Green Theatre stage tonight in “Vanya ...

PlayMakers Repertory Company season preview

By clayton johnson | September 1

PlayMakers Repertory Company is kicking off their 2014 season tonight, which will feature a diverse selection of comedies, dramas, classics, contemporaries ...

PlayMakers awarded $25K grant for Shakespeare

By Marcela Guimaraes | July 7

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

Hairspray dances its way into PlayMakers

July 7

Hairspray kept hairdos up in the ‘60s, but it keeps feet tapping in this decade.

PlayMakers hosts Texas theater ensemble Rude Mechanicals

By Marcela Guimaraes | June 2

PlayMakers Repertory Company opens its doors to Austin-based theater ensemble Rude Mechanicals this summer.

PlayMakers Repertory Company’s production of “Assassins” features presidential assassins and explores their plots and motives.

PlayMakers brings ‘Assassins’ to the stage

By Juanita Chavarro | April 1

Audiences will enter a surreal world in which presidential assassins from America’s history, including John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald, mix ...

PlayMakers unveils season

By Gabriella Cirelli | January 27

PlayMakers Repertory Company will take audiences from the bright stages of Broadway to the deep confines of the forest and back again with its 2014-15 ...

Gun control to be discussed on stage

By Rebecca Pollack | January 7

PlayMakers Repertory Company is starting the new year off with a bang. Its first performance of 2014 is the world premier of Mike Daisey’s one-man show, ...

Student theater groups have productive year

By Sarah Vassello | December 3

As the saying goes, the show must go on, and UNC campus theater had no trouble following that advice in 2013 — taking students, faculty and community ...

Nathaniel Claridad performs in Metamorphosis dress rehearsal October 31.

Q&A with ‘Metamorposes’ actor Nathaniel Claridad

By Gabriella Cirelli | December 1

Nathaniel Claridad, a UNC graduate student in dramatic arts, appears as various characters in PlayMakers’s rotating repertory “Metamorphoses,” including ...

PlayMakers' Summer Youth Conservatory is performing Sweeney Todd, July 17-21. Nadia Agourram and Adrian Thornburg rehearse on Monday night.

High school actors make the cut with 'Sweeney Todd' production

By McKenzie Coey | July 15

The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is making an appearance at UNC’s Center for Dramatic Art this weekend.

N.C. House budget could close curtain on arts funding

June 11

Arts funding in North Carolina faces the chopping block once again in the most recent budget proposal released by the N.C. House of Representatives Sunday. ...