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 introduces open captioned performances

PlayMakers Repertory Company is trying out a new audience service to enhance play-going enjoyment with open captioning at selected performances. Open captioning lets the audience […]

PlayMakers’ award-winning Summer Youth Conservatory returns for 2012

PlayMakers Repertory Company announces the fifth Summer Youth Conservatory, reimagined for 2012. The new Conservatory will feature three programs tailored for high school and middle […]

Red Clay Ramblers to be honored at PlayMakers Ball

Tony Award-winning, North Carolina music legends The Red Clay Ramblers will receive the PlayMakers Distinguished Achievement Award on Feb. 11 at the 24rd annual PlayMakers […]

PlayMakers mounts royal Shakespearean epic in rotating repertory

PlayMakers Repertory Company will stage a royal coming-of-age epic, combining William Shakespeare’s “Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2” and “Henry V” as “The Making […]

PlayMakers’ “No Child…” offers portrait of public education

PlayMakers Repertory Company presents actor-playwright Nilaja Sun in her timely one-woman show “No Child…” Jan. 11-15. The show is part of the theater’s innovative PRC […]

PlayMakers presents Albee Tony Award-winner for the holidays

PlayMakers Repertory Company celebrates the holidays a little differently this year, with something for those who need a night off from family activities and all […]

PlayMakers hosts Freedom Riders’ art during ‘Parchman Hour’

PlayMakers Repertory Company is collaborating with artist Charlotta Janssen, utilizing her work onstage and in exhibition during the run of the theater’s world premiere of […]

‘No Child…’ replaces ‘Amish Project’ in PlayMakers second stage lineup

CHAPEL HILL – Actor-playwright Nilaja Sun’s timely one-woman show “No Child…” comes to PlayMakers Repertory Company Jan. 11-15, as part of the theatre’s PRC2 second […]

PlayMakers world premiere commemorates Freedom Riders

CHAPEL HILL – In the summer of 1961, the fiery first months of America’s civil rights movement, waves of young people rode buses into the […]