Dooley blazes through the fog of war in PRC2′s AN ILIAD
Ray Dooley as The Narrator in AN ILIAD. Photo: PRC/Jon Gardiner. We think of Homer as the first bard, the beginner of dramatic storytelling. But storytelling is as old as dirt: ancient, the collected...
View ArticleMemory as Muse at PRC2: Rinde Eckert’s AND GOD CREATED GREAT WHALES
Rinde Eckert and Nora Cole in Eckert’s AND GOD CREATED GREAT WHALES. Photo courtesy PlayMakers Rep. “What if the mind is a kind of digital code that can be encrypted in music?” wonders Nathan, Rinde...
View ArticleSPRING TRAINING through April 28, and no, it is not baseball
PlayMakers Repertory Company is wrapping up an intense year with a fascinating PRC2 presentation by the theatrical troupe Universes, in the Kenan Theatre. April 24 saw the world premiere of Spring...
View ArticleSurviving with Loudon and other news as PlayMakers Opens 13/14 Season
Loudon Wainwright III and image of Loudon Wainwright Jr., in PlayMakers Repertory Company’s world premiere production of SURVIVING TWIN, written & performed by Loudon Wainwright III, and directed...
View ArticleRomancing the Firearm: Mike Daisey premieres THE STORY OF THE GUN at PRC2
In his latest one-man show, a rare commissioned work for PlayMakers Repertory Company’s PRC2 series, monologist Mike Daisey runs his prismatic riffs on the gun in America. The gun: a gun, any gun, all...
View ArticleHOLD THESE TRUTHS at PlayMakers
Every American should see this play, because our Constitutional protections are not always self-evident. The nightmare CAN happen here, and it has. Joel de la Fuente as Gordon Hirabayashi, et al., in...
View ArticleDon’t Shoot: Roger Guenveur Smith’s Timely RODNEY KING at PRC2
Roger Guenveur Smith in his one-man show RODNEY KING, at PRC2 through Sept. 7. Photo: Patti McGuire. PlayMakers Repertory Company‘s second stage series, PRC2, generally presents...
View ArticleWRESTLING JERUSALEM AT PRC2, through Jan. 11
WRESTLING JERUSALEM. Photo courtesy Aaron Davidman. Aaron Davidman has written and is performing this week at PRC² a very powerful piece of theatre. You might not call Wrestling Jerusalem a “play,” but...
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