Press Releases

Please direct all press inquiries to:

Associate Marketing Director, Rosalie Preston.

We are happy to make arrangements for journalists wishing to cover our company via artist interviews and reviews, but ask that you not attempt to contact the artists directly. As a repertory company with an in-house scene shop, props shop, and costume shop, we are also happy to make arrangements for journalists wishing to cover any aspect of our company, including exclusive behind-the-scenes access to artists and technicians in the months leading up to our productions and events.


PlayMakers Offers More Open Captioning

PlayMakers Repertory Company is bringing back open captioning at selected performances during its 2012-2013 season. Open captioning enhances play-going enjoyment by allowing the audience to […]

PlayMakers’ Grannemann elected to state arts board

Hannah Grannemann, managing director of PlayMakers Repertory Company, has been elected to the board of directors of ARTS North Carolina. PlayMakers is the professional theater […]

‘An Iliad’ joins PlayMakers’ season lineup

PlayMakers, the professional theater in residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will present “An Iliad” as part of its thought-provoking PRC2 […]

PlayMakers’ Summer Youth Conservatory performs Tony-winning “Urinetown”

A cast of 25 young student actors will perform the Tony Award-winning musical satire “Urinetown: The Musical” July 19-22 in the Paul Green Theatre at […]

PlayMakers awarded top NEA grant for upcoming season

The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded $100,000 to PlayMakers Repertory Company, its largest grant to a producing theater for the upcoming season. For […]

New York’s SITI Company to present work-in-progress May 18

PlayMakers Repertory Company, the professional theater in residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is hosting renowned theater ensemble SITI Company of […]

PlayMakers’ PRC² presents world premiere of “Penelope”

PlayMakers Repertory Company, the professional theater in residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will present the world premiere of “Penelope” April […]

PlayMakers announces 2012-2013 season

Monday, March 19, 2012 The Tony Award-winning musical “Cabaret” plus premieres of two specially commissioned works are some of the highlights of the 2012-2013 Season […]

Uproarious British comedy “Noises Off” at PlayMakers

PlayMakers Repertory Company, the professional theatre in residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, concludes its 2011-2012 Mainstage Season with the uproarious […]