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PlayMakers Repertory Company will conclude its Mainstage Season with the Tony Award-winning musical 'Assassins' by Stephen Sondheim, onstage today, April 2-20.

Landmark on Main Street will welcome back Loudon Wainwright III on Saturday, April 26 at 8 PM. Landmark thanks Roots Rock Series Sponsors Bethpage Federal Credit Union and WFUV Radio as well as program sponsors Dina & Philip Adsetts, Forchelli, Curto, Deegan, Schwartz, Mineo & Terrana LLP and Sandy & Eric Krasnoff. Hosted by WFUV's John Platt.

UNC's Program in the Humanities and Human Values has announced a new special event in conjunction with PlayMakers Repertory Company's upcoming Stephen Sondheim musical 'Assassins.'

PlayMakers Repertory Company will conclude its Mainstage Season with the Tony Award-winning musical "Assassins" by Stephen Sondheim, onstage April 2-20.

Artistic Director Bill Rauch announced the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2015 playbill today. The 2015 season is sponsored by U.S. Bank.

UNC's Program in the Humanities and Human Values has announced a new special event in conjunction with PlayMakers Repertory Company's upcoming Stephen Sondheim musical "Assassins."

A Tony Award-winner straight from Broadway, a 20th century classic and a beloved tale from Shakespeare paired with a tour de force musical by Stephen Sondheim will highlight the 2014-2015 Mainstage Season from PlayMakers Repertory Company.

PlayMakers Repertory Company will present the world premiere of 'The Story of The Gun,' created and performed by award-winning storyteller-monologuist Mike Daisey, today, Jan. 8-12.

Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for theatre, announces new leadership of its board of directors and three new members. Diane Rodriguez, associate producer/director of new play production at Center Theatre Group, succeeds Phillip Himberg, producing artistic director of the Sundance Institute Theatre Program, as board president. Robert Hupp, producing artistic director of Arkansas Repertory Theatre, joins playwright Lydia. R. Diamond as joint vice presidents. Tim Jennings, managing director of Children's Theatre Company, succeeds Roche Schulfer, executive director of Goodman Theatre, as treasurer. Ralph Bryan, managing director-investments of Wells Fargo Advisors, remains as secretary.

PlayMakers Repertory Company will present the world premiere of "The Story of The Gun," created and performed by award-winning storyteller-monologuist Mike Daisey, Jan. 8-12.

There's something in the water at PlayMakers Repertory Company. PlayMakers is transforming the Paul Green Theatre into an aquatic wonderland complete with indoor pool for productions of 'The Tempest' by William Shakespeare and 'Metamorphoses' by Tony Award-winner Mary Zimmerman, to be performed in rotating repertory Nov. 2 to Dec. 8.

PlayMakers Repertory Company is pleased to announce that the theater has been named an inaugural winner of Triangle Business Journal's Leaders in Diversity Award.

PlayMakers Repertory Company will present the world premiere of 'Surviving Twin,' written and performed by Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III, Sept. 4-8.

PlayMakers Repertory Company is celebrating the award of several significant national grants in support of upcoming projects and productions.

A cast of young student actors will perform Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning 'Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street' tonight, July 17-21 at the Center for Dramatic Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

A cast of young student actors will perform Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" July 17-21 at the Center for Dramatic Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF) Observership Program grants emerging Directors and Choreographers 25 paid opportunities to observe the work of master Directors and Choreographers as they create productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway and at leading regional theatres across the country.

PlayMakers Repertory Company in Chapel Hill is currently staging a production of Kander and Ebb's 1967 Tony Award-winning best musical Cabaret that is racy, dazzling, and thought-provoking. Starting and ending on two very different trains, and set largely in the Kit Kat Klub nightclub and in a boarding house, Cabaret features many characters of uncertain goals, ambiguous sexuality, and real heart, who are, whether they are willing to admit it or not, facing real danger with the rise of the Nazi Party looming. Though perhaps existing on society's fringe, the show is a real testament to the average German and their inability (or even refusal) to believe that something truly terrible could be brewing in their own nation. Interestingly enough, the story is largely told through the story of a Brit, Sally Bowles (played to perfection by Lisa Brescia), and an American, her lover Cliff Bradshaw (the undeniably charming John Dreher), as they provide a sort of outsider's perspective on how people reacted to the decline of Weimar Germany and the rise of Nazism. Hosted by the club's Emcee, played by Taylor Mac, the show goes from glitzy dance numbers to heartfelt ballads and back again as it navigates through one of the most tenuous times in the history of the Western world.

PlayMakers Repertory Company concludes its Mainstage Season with the Tony Award-winning musical 'Cabaret' now through April 21 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

PlayMakers Repertory Company offers audiences two insightful looks at race and the meaning of home in productions of 'A Raisin in the Sun' and 'Clybourne Park,' to be performed in rotating repertory tonight, Jan. 26 to March 3. PlayMakers is the professional theater in residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.