Places to Go: Theatres Embrace the All-Gender Bathroom
As an absurd fight over transgender bathroom rights intensifies, theatres can lead by freeing their own facilities from the binary.
All Stories About PlayMakers Repertory Company
PlayMakers Rep Creates 2 New Leadership Positions
Justin Haslett has been named managing director, and Jerry Ruiz has been named associate artistic director.
The Great Work Begins: Southern Theatres Respond to Anti-LGBTQ Laws
Theatres in North Carolina and Mississippi look to cooperation, not boycotts, as an effective means of protest.
PlayMakers Rep Announces 2016–17 Season, Vivienne Benesch’s First
The North Carolina theatre’s first season under its new artistic director will include a mix of classics and new plays.
Vivienne Benesch Is Looking for Transformation
As the new artistic director of PlayMakers Repertory Company, she is focusing on new plays, diversity, community, and the future.
The Buzz: 5 Theatre Artists Dish on What’s Coming Up
From a Thanksgiving comedy, to exciting new hires, to ‘Scrooge in Love!’, five theatre artists preview what they’re working on, and what they’re looking forward to.
Vivienne Benesch Named New Artistic Director at PlayMakers
She’ll leave the helm of Chautauqua Theatre Company to take the reigns of the North Carolina repertory company in 2016.
PlayMakers Rep’s New Season to Include Six Plays and 1 Sondheim
The final season from outgoing a.d. Joseph Haj will include solo shows by Trieu Tran and KJ Sanchez, plus a new take on ‘Three Sisters’ by Libby Appel.
Joseph Haj to Succeed Joe Dowling as Guthrie Theater Artistic Director
To replace its longtime a.d., the venerable Minneapolis company taps an actor/director with a wide-ranging—you might even say ‘diverse’—history in U.S. resident theatres.
6 Out-of-the-Book Adaptations of ‘Into the Woods’
From little black dresses to jeans, bicycles to balloons, six memorable reinventions of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s “Into the Woods” from 2014 (not counting the movie).
