Regulars at PlayMakers Repertory in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, know Brendon Fox from the 2009 production of Michael Hollinger’s “Opus,” which he directed. In February, he returned to PlayMakers to direct both parts of Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America.”
In the recent production of “Angels in America” at PlayMakers Repertory Company, Matthew Carlson appeared as the character Prior Walter. This is the second noticeable performance for Carlson on a prominent North Carolina stage this season: early this fall he was also Tom Wingfield in Triad Stage’s production of the Tennessee Williams classic “The Glass [...]
PlayMakers and the North Carolina Symphony join forces for the first time ever to bring “Amadeus,” music’s most famous prodigy to life on stage December 3-5. Sir Peter Shaffer’s play is the basis for this hybrid of music and theater. Ray Dooley, will appear as Austrian court composer Antonio Salieri, Mozart’s scheming musical rival, along [...]
This year marks the 35th anniversary of PlayMakers Repertory, the professional theater company in residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Considered by many as the leading professional theater between Washington, DC and Atlanta, PlayMakers Rep benefits indeed from a long and illustrious history. And as the only resident company in North Carolina, they are the premiere repertory for Carolina audiences.
Triad Stage was founded a decade ago by two passionate and committed men – Preston Lane, stage director and playwright and Richard Whittington, theater producer. Today the two are, respectively, the Artistic and Executive Directors of the company.
It all began with a scene from Shakespeare – an estranged father encounters his now grown up daughter in a brothel and fails to recognize her. The scene is from “Pericles, Prince of Tyre.” Preston Lane, the artistic director of Greensboro’s Triad Stage, fascinated by the powerful simplicity of this classical tragicomedy, wondered what it would look like if something like that were to happen here in America. This is how the adventure of “Providence Gap” started.
The newest work by playwright and screenwriter Angus MacLachlan (“Junebug,” “Stone”) is a comedy set in Winston-Salem, in which a triangle of struggling local artists try to use each other to advance their careers in the uncertain creative environment of a mid-sized provincial town.
The Burning Coal Theatre Company was created in 1997 in Raleigh by Jerome Davis and his wife and partner Simmie Kastner. Theatre is of course a long standing passion for Davis, who harbored the dream of creating a professional company for many years.
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