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(11/01/19 1:08am)
In 1989, Ray Dooley was heading back to New York City after spending a year and a half at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival when he received a call from the PlayMakers Repertory Company's artistic director at the time.
(10/04/19 3:15am)
The University’s Koch Memorial Forest Theatre will be celebrating its centennial birthday on Sunday, Oct. 6th from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
(08/20/19 1:03am)
The newest show premiering at PlayMakers Repertory Company got its start on an old porch in Tryon, North Carolina — the childhood home of North Carolina native and Grammy Award nominated musician Nina Simone.
(04/03/19 5:14am)
2019/2020 will mark the 100th season of PlayMakers on UNC’s campus. While the name and history are shared, PlayMakers Repertory Company, which is active today, was actually established in 1976 as a professional company. PlayMakers is celebrating all 100 years with purpose.
(03/04/19 1:46am)
Each time Bertolt Brecht set out to develop one of his plays, he documented it furiously. He scribbled pages on pages of notes compiled into journals along with photographs and drawings and so on. He meant to take the play and make it matter in that moment. When Director Vivienne Benesch and crew set out to revitalize the “Life of Galileo,” they wanted to produce a play that would matter in this moment.
(02/19/19 12:47am)
Every day people face the daunting fact that they are wrong. People were wrong about the Earth being flat, the Earth being the only planet with water and Pluto being a planet. Not everyone has fully accepted the latter because no one truly accepts large discoveries immediately — and the same can be said for Galileo’s discovery about the true center of the universe.
(01/23/19 1:07am)
Grief is a powerful force, one that can bring people together and force them to confront uncomfortable truths about themselves. That is one of the main themes of the new PlayMakers Repertory Company show “Jump," premiering Jan. 26.
(10/30/18 1:46am)
Not even a Halloween celebration as large as Chapel Hill’s annual Franklin Street fiasco is big enough to drown out the earliest signs of the Christmas season.
(10/30/18 12:28am)
If the Town of Chapel Hill gets its way, you may soon see changes at the Varsity Theatre.
(10/17/18 4:01am)
Former UNC Chancellor James Moeser said Silent Sam should be housed at an on-campus civil rights museum to provide context to the monument in an interview with The Daily Tar Heel.
(09/28/18 2:17am)
For Sam Reckford, costume production is her “all day, every day.” The third-year graduate student is finishing her Masters of Fine Arts in Costume Production, works at PlayMakers Repertory Company alongside her studies.
(09/26/18 4:31am)
PlayMakers Repertory Company is making stops throughout the state while on tour with their Mobile Shakespeare production of Macbeth for the next three weeks.
(09/07/18 1:43am)
It is a Thursday morning at 9:15.
(09/06/18 3:15am)
McKay Coble is a scenic designer for the PlayMakers Repertory Company at UNC. As a member of the creative team, she has aided in the the design of more than 25 plays with PlayMakers over the past 30 years. Coble also has experience with scenic design for regional and Broadway performances and film.
(09/04/18 12:37am)
Robin Hood is a classic in the theater community, but PlayMakers Repertory Company is introducing a fresh take with inclusive casting and original music.
(01/23/18 12:43am)
The Arts Everywhere initiative has launched an eponymous app, which allows everyone to locate all University arts events in one place.
(12/04/17 1:39am)
PlayMakers Repertory Company's "Dot" is a Christmas play experience to remember.
(11/20/17 1:23am)
Most students will agree that Wilson Library is one of the most beautiful spots on campus to study, but the building’s treasure extends much further than the reading room.
(11/15/17 2:46am)
Life is a balancing act, which is a concept that members of PlayMakers Repertory Company know all too well.
(10/10/17 12:31am)
Mark Perry is not a native North Carolinian. After years in the state, he has fallen in love with the cast of characters surrounding him in the college town of Chapel Hill. The Dramatic Arts lecturer has been teaching at UNC since 2005 where he started with a single class. After a couple of years, he started teaching playwriting.