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.
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Cannibalism, blood, revenge and love all have one thing in common — Sweeney Todd.
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Darkness, comedy, love and survival are relatable. Murdering people is not.
Read More »Art imitates life — sometimes in more ways than one. PlayMakers Repertory Company will open a new production tonight that forces audiences to face societally ingrained prejudice and overlooked, white-washed history.
Read More »PlayMakers Repertory Company is taking audiences on a journey of transformation with its 2016-17 season.
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Vivienne Benesch considers herself a Renaissance artist.
Read More »Professor-student relationships go from the classroom to the stage in PlayMakers’ next production, “Seminar,” which opens Wednesday. The show centers around four young, hopeful writers and their professor’s exclusive class on power, sex and art.
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Close your eyes. Think of one word to describe how you feel.
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With the lights dimmed, the spacious Paul Green Theatre empty and a stage painted in the likeness of a New York City subway map, all that was missing was the audience.
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PlayMakers Repertory Company’s 2015-16 season will be their 40th, and yet the anniversary was bittersweet.
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The man who got PlayMakers Repertory Company on sound financial footing will leave his post for Minneapolis’ Guthrie Theater in July.
Read More »PlayMakers Repertory Company’s latest production, called “Trouble in Mind,” features a complex plot of a play within a play that addresses racism on Broadway in the late 1950s. The play, which opened on Jan. 21, will run at the Paul Green Theatre until Feb. 8.
Read More »For the next week, PlayMakers Repertory Company will host the regional premiere of “Wrestling Jerusalem,” a passionate and political one-man play that seeks to bring to light the past and present conflict in Israel.
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PlayMakers Repertory Company’s productions of “Into the Woods” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” have been in rotating repertory since Nov. 1. PlayMakers added an additional performance to “Into the Woods” by popular demand.
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A sense of mystery, mirth and magic consumed Paul Green Theatre Thursday night as PlayMakers Repertory Company’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” took the audience on a journey through Shakespearean comedy.
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