The Game
4/10 - 4/28/2024
World Premiere BY BEKAH BRUNSTETTERDIRECTED BY VIVIENNE BENESCH Do you have what it takes to win? Alyssa and Homer are in a marriage that’s hit ...
with special guest Alice Gerrard Lamenting the roll-back on women’s rights around the world, folk singer-songwriter Dawn Landes re-imagines The Liberated Woman’s Songbook. First published ...
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Photos: First Look At The World Premiere Of THE GAME at PlayMakers Repertory Company
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 11, 2024
Get a first look at photos of PlayMakers Repertory Company's The Game! Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets. ...
Interview: Bekah Brunstetter on PlayMakers' THE GAME and Broadway's THE NOTEBOOK
by Jeffrey Kare - April 09, 2024
Bekah Brunstetter is a native of North Carolina who just so happens to be a prolific playwright. Among her works are F*CKING ART, I USED TO WRITE ON WALLS, BE A GOOD LITTLE WIDOW, GOING TO A PLACE WHERE YOU ALREADY ARE, and THE CAKE....
Cast Set for the World Premiere of Bekah Brunstetter's THE GAME
by Stephi Wild - March 29, 2024
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PlayMakers Repertory Company opened its production of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express adapted for the stage by Ken Ludwig this weekend. Check out photos here!...
First Look at PlayMakers Repertory Company's MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
by Blair Ingenthron - March 10, 2024
The train is pulling into the station as PlayMakers Repertory Company opens its production of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express adapted for the stage by Ken Ludwig. Check out a photo from the production here!...
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Discover the exciting new season of shows announced by PlayMakers Repertory Company. Stay updated with BroadwayWorld's latest news on upcoming performances....
PlayMakers Repertory Company Reveals 2024/2025 Season Featuring a World Premiere & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 04, 2024
PlayMakers Repertory Company has revealed its lineup of mainstage shows for the 2024/2025 season, which includes modern classics, a world premiere, and a deviously, delicious musical. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets....
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS Comes to PlayMakers Repertory Company in March
by Stephi Wild - February 28, 2024
PlayMakers Repertory Company is preparing for its production of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express adapted for the stage by Ken Ludwig. Performances run March 9-24....
Photos: First Look At The PlayMakers Repertory Company Production Of FAT HAM
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 31, 2024
When Fat Ham opens at PlayMakers Repertory Company in Chapel Hill this week, it will be the first time an audience sees the Pulitzer Prize-winning show on a North Carolina Stage. See photos! ...
Photos: First Look at PlayMakers' Production Of EVERY BRILLIANT THING
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Past Shows
Murder on the Orient Express
3/6 - 3/24/2024
Adapted by Ken Ludwig Directed by Tracy Bersley A murder mystery gone off the rails A luxurious train ride comes to a halt ...
Fat Ham
1/31 - 2/18/2024
FAT HAM BY JAMES IJAMES Revenge with hushpuppies on the side Your typical Southern family cookout just got anything but. Juicy gets a visit from his ...
Every Brilliant Thing
1/10 - 2/10/2024
You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s “done something stupid.” She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to make ...
Fat Ham
1/31 - 2/3/2024
FAT HAM BY JAMES IJAMES Revenge with hushpuppies on the side Your typical Southern family cookout just got anything but. Juicy gets a visit from his ...
A Christmas Carol
12/16 - 12/17/2023
A Christmas Carol A beloved tale by Charles Dickens Adapted by William Leach Back by popular demand for one weekend only! Bring the whole family ...
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
11/15 - 12/3/2023
Beatrice and Benedick bicker all the time… but their friends see a budding romance and decide to play Cupid. Hijinks, heartbreak and hilarity ensue. PlayMakers ...
PlayMakers Presents Misery by William Goldman, based on the novel by Stephen King
10/11 - 10/31/2023
Stephen King's classic thriller comes to life on stage with the chilling stage adaptation by William Goldman...
Misery
10/11
Misery follows successful romance novelist Paul Sheldon, who is rescued from a car crash by his “number one fan,” Annie Wilkes, and wakes up captive ...
Clyde's
9/6 - 9/24/2023
When tough-as-nails sandwich shop owner Clyde offers her formerly incarcerated kitchen staff a shot at redemption, they find purpose and inspiration in their shared quest ...
Clyde's
9/6
Clyde's, written by the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, is a powerful dramedy that takes a comedic yet poignant look at redemption and second ...
The Drowsy Chaperone
7/20 - 7/30/2023
Get ready to tap your feet and laugh out loud with 'The Drowsy Chaperone.' This Tony Award-winning musical will transport you to a bygone era ...
Hamlet
1/25 - 2/12/2023
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE DIRECTED BY VIVIENNE BENESCH Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. A vivid reimagining ...
Akeelah and the Bee
3/31 - 4/18/2021
Akeelah has a passion for words, the crazier the better! Under-challenged at school and overwhelmed by her daily life in a tough, Chicago neighborhood, Akeelah ...
As You Like It
2/24 - 3/14/2021
Zack Fine returns to put his madcap spin on one of Shakespeares most hilarious comedies. This riotous combination of love at first sight, feisty cross-dressing ...
A Christmas Carol
12/14 - 12/27/2020
Curl up with the whole family for an intimate evening of storytelling with PlayMakers legend Ray Dooley. Ray embodies Scrooge, Marley, Tiny Tim and a ...
You Can't Take It With You
11/18 - 12/6/2020
As the youngest member of the wackiest family in New York, Alice Sycamore is understandably worried about bringing her fianc and his parents to meet ...
Mother Russia
10/14 - 11/1/2020
Six months since the end of the Soviet Union and two young Russian bros find themselves in dead-end jobs, in the middle of a mistaken-identity ...
Steel Magnolias
9/9 - 9/27/2020
Our Mainstage season opens with a group of gossipy Southern ladies at Truvys beauty shop, gossip, revelations, and witty Southern banter flow like sweet tea ...
Everybody
1/22 - 2/9/2020
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Playmakers Repertory Company...
The Amish Project
1/8 - 1/12/2020
On October 2, 2006 a thirty-year old man walked into a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania and opened fire, killing five girls and ...
Ragtime
11/20 - 12/15/2019
Called by Time Magazine "A triumph for the stage," and by the International Herald Tribune "the best musical in twenty years," this acclaimed musical won ...
Dairyland
10/16 - 11/3/2019
Heidi Armbruster; dir: Vivienne Benesch. World Premiere...
Native Son
9/11 - 9/29/2019
Nambi Kelley; dir: Seret Scott. Boyer Theatre:...
Bright Star
7/18 - 7/28/2019
From award-winning screenwriter and playwright Steve Martin (Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Roxanne) and chart-topping singer-songwriter Edie Brickell comes a world premiere American musical inspired ...
Your Healing is Killing Me
4/24 - 4/29/2019
Elizabeth Kenan Price Theatre: Virginia Grise; dir: Virginia Grise....
How I Learned to Drive
4/3 - 4/21/2019
Paula Vogel Playmakers Repertory Company...
Life of Galileo
2/27 - 3/17/2019
Galileo Galilei: father, hero, heretic. When a chance discovery leads to evidence of a seismic shift in scientific thinking, Galileo sparks a dangerous dispute with ...
Life of Galileo
2/27 - 3/17/2019
BY BERTOLT BRECHTADAPTED BY JOSEPH DISCHERDIRECTED BY VIVIENNE BENESCHGalileo Galilei: father, hero, heretic. When a chance discovery leads to evidence of a seismic shift in ...
Jump
1/23 - 2/10/2019
This funny, heartbreaking, and surprising new play takes us on a theatrical journey to a place where lights flicker, things fall from the sky, and ...
Songs of Light and Wonder
12/13 - 12/14/2018
Join Leaving Eden‘s Laurelyn Dossett along with many of her musical friends for a holiday concert like no other. Gather to share the warmth of ...
She Loves Me
11/14 - 12/2/2018
In this romantic musical comedy of mistaken identity, there is no love lost between Amalia and Georg, two perfume clerks who can’t seem to find ...
Skeleton Crew
10/10 - 10/28/2018
As the Great Recession of 2008 begins to decimate industries across America, the once-gleaming “Motor City” has lost its luster. At one of its still-standing ...
Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood
9/12 - 9/30/2018
Comic genius Ken Ludwig brings his rip-roaring romp through Sherwood Forest to PlayMakers, with all the thrills and romance you could ever ask for. We’ll ...
Cabaret
7/18 - 7/29/2018
The Master of Ceremonies bids you to leave your troubles behind as you enter the tantalizing world of The Kit Kat Klub in 1930s Berlin. ...
CABARET (1998 VERSION)
7/18 - 7/29/2018
In a Berlin nightclub, as the 1920's draw to a close, a garish Master of Ceremonies welcomes the audience and assures them they will forget ...
Leaving Eden
4/2 - 4/22/2018
BY MIKE WILEY WITH MUSIC & LYRICS BY LAURELYN DOSSETT DIRECTED BY VIVIENNE BENESCH A NORTH CAROLINA FABLE FOR TODAY Acclaimed playwright Mike Wiley returns ...
Tartuffe
2/3 - 3/11/2018
This is the immortal tale of a crafty hypocrite who feigns honesty, human compassion, and piety, but in reality takes advantage of his naïve and ...
Tartuffe
2/3 - 3/11/2018
ADAPTED BY DAVID BALL DIRECTED BY ORLANDO POBATOY A BIG-LITTLE PLAY ABOUT FAITH IN AMERICA The man of the house has lost his mind. He ...
The Christians
2/3 - 3/11/2018
Twenty years ago, Pastor Paul’s church was nothing more than a modest storefront. Now he presides over a congregation of thousands, with classrooms for Sunday ...
The Christians
2/4 - 3/9/2018
BY LUCAS HNATH DIRECTED BY PRESTON LANE A BIG-LITTLE PLAY ABOUT FAITH IN AMERICA Twenty years ago, Pastor Paul’s church was nothing more than a ...
A Christmas Carol
12/12 - 12/17/2017
ADAPTED BY WILLIAM LEACH AN INTIMATE EVENING WITH A PLAYMAKERS LEGEND In this witty and warm, one man tour de force, longtime company member Ray ...
Dot
11/22 - 12/10/2017
BY COLEMAN DOMINGO DIRECTED BY VALERIE CURTIS-NEWTON A DIZZY, DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY REUNION TO REMEMBER As Dotty and her three grown children gather for the holidays, ...
Sense and Sensibility
10/18 - 11/5/2017
"Sense and Sensibility" by Jon Jory, adapted from the novel by Jane Austen (February 17 – March 18, 2012) Fortune lost to fate. Romance lost ...
Sense and Sensibility
10/18 - 11/5/2017
BY KATE HAMILL based on the novel by Jane Austen DIRECTED BY TAIBI MAGAR A GOSSIP-DRIVEN COMEDY OF REASON AND ROMANCE Playwright Kate Hamill gives ...
The Cake
9/13 - 10/1/2017
All is going well for Della. Her North Carolina bakery is legendary and she’s just been cast on her favorite television baking competition. But then, ...
The Cake
9/13 - 10/1/2017
BY BEKAH BRUNSTETTER DIRECTED BY JERRY RUIZ WHEN A CAKE IS NO LONGER JUST A CAKE Della makes cakes, not judgment calls. But when the ...
Count
8/23 - 8/27/2017
Step into the stark, fluorescent otherworld of death row, where the reality of execution causes condemned inmates to re-envision what it means to truly live....
The Count
8/23 - 8/27/2017
Over the course of a single day on death row, six men unpack their personal inheritances of violence, racism, mental illness, poverty, and unexpected love. ...
BYE BYE BIRDIE
7/19 - 7/30/2017
Theatre Memphis presents Bye Bye Birdie, a family musical. For more information, visit their website....
Mr. Joy
4/26 - 4/30/2017
Daniel Beaty....
MY FAIR LADY
4/5 - 4/29/2017
Twelfth Night
3/1 - 3/19/2017
William Shakespeare; dir: Jerry Ruiz. Paul Green Theatre:...
Intimate Apparel
1/25 - 2/12/2017
At 35, Esther is lonely. A skilled African-American seamstress in 1905 Manhattan, she makes exquisite undergarments for clients including a sincere socialite from tony Fifth ...
De Profundis
1/11 - 1/15/2017
This work in development explores Wilde’s infamous account of lost love and betrayal, so beautifully expressed in his “letter from Reading Gaol,” and takes us ...
The May Queen
11/22 - 12/11/2016
Molly Smith Metzler; dir: Amanda Charlton....
The May Queen
11/22 - 12/11/2016
Molly Smith Metzler; dir: Amanda Charlton....
The Crucible
10/19 - 11/6/2016
A witch hunt is beginning in Salem. Raised to be seen and not heard, a group of young women suddenly find their words have a ...
The Crucible
10/19 - 11/6/2016
A witch hunt is beginning in Salem. Raised to be seen and not heard, a group of young women suddenly find their words have a ...
Detroit '67
9/14 - 10/2/2016
Shiva Theater: - Dominique Morriseau; dir: Kwame Kwei-Armah....
Detroit '67
9/14 - 10/2/2016
Shiva Theater: - Dominique Morriseau; dir: Kwame Kwei-Armah....
Draw The Circle
8/24 - 8/28/2016
Redefining the limits of unconditional love The funny, deeply moving story of a bewildered immigrant Muslim family coming to terms with a child who defies ...
Violet
7/20 - 7/31/2016
discovering who you are is the greatest journey of all A girl with a disfiguring scar sets out from her home in Spruce Pine, NC ...
SWEENEY TODD
3/30 - 4/24/2016
Stephen Sondheim’s haunting musical thriller has been hailed "the greatest musical of the past half-century” by the Wall Street Journal. Sophisticated and uncompromising, “Sweeney Todd” ...
Sweeney Todd-The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
3/30 - 4/23/2016
book: Hugh Wheeler; lyrics: Stephen Sondheim; music: Stephen Sondheim; dir: Jen Wineman....
We Are Proud To Present ...
2/24 - 3/13/2016
Jackie Sibblies Drury; dir: Desdemona Chiang....
Three Sisters
1/20 - 2/7/2016
adapt: Libby Appel from Anton Chekhov; trans: Allison Horsley; music: Ari Picker; dir: Vivienne Benesch....
PETER AND THE STARCATCHER
11/18 - 12/13/2015
Tony-winning Peter and the Starcatcher upends the century-old story of how a miserable orphan comes to be The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up (a.k.a. ...
Seminar
10/14 - 11/1/2015
Theresa Rebeck; dir: Michael Dove....
Disgraced
9/16 - 10/4/2015
Ayad Akhtar; music: Bruno Louchoarn; dir: Shishir Kurup....
Disgraced
9/16 - 9/4/2015
one dangerous dinner party An upwardly mobile Pakistani-American lawyer has achieved success while distancing himself from his Muslim heritage. When he and his wife host ...
Uncle Ho to Uncle Sam
8/26 - 8/30/2015
A Vietnamese boy and his family barely escape the fall of Saigon and the horrors of a Viet Cong re-education camp to become refugees, at ...
Mary's Wedding
4/29 - 5/3/2015
Directed by Wendy Wagner November 6-10 & 13-17, 2012 It is the eve of Mary’s wedding, a night filled with dreams: dreams of love, dreams ...
4000 Miles
4/1 - 4/19/2015
Amy Herzog; dir: Desdemona Chiang....
An Enemy of the People
2/25 - 3/15/2015
adapt: Arthur Miller from Henrik Ibsen; dir: Tom Quaintance....
Trouble in Mind
1/21 - 2/8/2015
Alice Childress....
Wrestling Jerusalem
1/7 - 1/11/2015
Aaron Davidman....
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
11/1 - 12/7/2014
Perhaps the theatre’s first “fairy tale”, Shakespeare’s lyrical comedy weaves together a trio of stories set in a magical wood. During the course of a ...
INTO THE WOODS
11/1 - 12/7/2014
The Brothers Grimm hit Broadway with an epic fairytale where worlds collide. James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim take everyone's favorite storybook characters and brings them ...
VANYA and SONIA and MASHA and SPIKE by Christopher Durang
9/17 - 10/5/2014
Join PlayMakers Repertory Company in kicking off its 2014/15 Mainstage Season with a brilliant new comedy by Christopher Durang, the 2013 Tony Award-winner for Best ...
RODNEY KING written and performed by Roger Guenveur Smith
9/2 - 9/7/2014
PlayMakers’ PRC2 Series presents Roger Guenveur Smith’s poetic rhythm-charged look at the flawed everyman behind the myth. King endured police brutality, the glare of an ...
The Story of the Gun
4/23 - 4/27/2014
Mike Daisey; dir: Jean-Michele Gregory. World Premiere...
Assassins
4/2 - 4/20/2014
John Weidman; lyrics: Stephen Sondheim; music: Stephen Sondheim; dir: Mike Donahue....
Love Alone
2/26 - 3/16/2014
Paul Green Theatre: Deborah Salem Smith; dir: Vivenne Benesch....
Private Lives
1/22 - 2/9/2014
Paul Green Theatre: Noel Coward; dir: Sean Daniels....
Hold These Truths
1/8 - 1/12/2014
Elizabeth Price Kenan Theatre: Jeanne Sakata; dir: Lisa Rothe....
The Tempest
11/2 - 12/8/2013
Paul Green Theatre: William Shakespeare; music: Emma Nadeau, Ari Picker; dir: Joseph Haj, Dominique Serrand....
Metamorphoses
11/3 - 12/7/2013
Paul Green Theatre: Mary Zimmerman; music: Emma Nadeau, Ari Picker; dir: Joseph Haj, Dominique Serrand....
The Mountaintop
9/18 - 10/6/2013
Katori Hall; dir: Raelle Myrick-Hodges....
Surviving Twin
9/4 - 9/8/2013
Loudon Wainwright III; music: Loudon Wainwright III; dir: Joseph Haj....
SWEENEY TODD
7/18 - 7/21/2013
The rare instance of a musical thriller, Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler 's chilling, suspenseful, heart-pounding masterpiece of murderous barber-ism and culinary crime tells the ...
Urinetown
7/19 - 7/22/2012
The 2012 Summer Youth Conservatory presents the Tony Award-winning Urinetown: The Musical. An uproariously funny and earnest tale of love, greed and revolution in a ...
PENELOPE
4/25 - 4/29/2012
NOISES OFF
4/4 - 4/22/2012
HENRY IV (Parts 1 & 2)
1/28 - 3/4/2012
HENRY V
1/28 - 3/4/2012
NO CHILD...
1/11 - 1/15/2012
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
11/30 - 12/18/2011
THE PARCHMAN HOUR
10/26 - 11/13/2011
Mike Wiley; dir: Patricia McGregor....
IN THE NEXT ROOM (or the vibrator play)
9/21 - 10/9/2011
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