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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...
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Memory 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...
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SPRING 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...
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Surviving 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...
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Romancing 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...
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HOLD 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...
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Don’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...
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WRESTLING 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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