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Critical Acclaim for Disgraced

Mainstage Season opener Disgraced is making an impact on audiences and critics alike. Read what reviewers have to say about this “profound” Pulitzer Prize-winner.

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On Ayad Aktar and Disgraced

Ayad Akhtar is a storyteller. By profession, he is an actor, a playwright, a novelist and a filmmaker…

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Music and Identity in Disgraced: Blurred Boundaries

Disgraced is a nuanced but dynamic journey through complex aspects of identity and heritage in America…

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Nephelie Andonyadis Sets the Stage for Disgraced

Nephelie Andonyadis knows what draws her to a project: a combination of intriguing, important material, an aesthetic challenge, exciting collaborators and the chance to work within the fabric of a community. With PlayMakers’ production of Disgraced, she’s “grateful to have the opportunity to explore this remarkably insightful, challenging, and chiseled play with gifted collaborators who are dear old colleagues and new found friends.”

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Director Shishir Kurup on the daring of Disgraced

“I wanted to direct Disgraced for a number of reasons, one being that it doesn’t shy away from the challenging and provocative questions of co-existence […]

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Creating Uncle Ho to Uncle Sam – Part 2: Taking the Story Onstage

Trieu Tran shares some thoughts on taking his autobiographical play from “page to stage.” Uncle Ho to Uncle Sam is Trieu’s first solo play, written […]

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Creating Uncle Ho to Uncle Sam – Part 1: Inspiration and Conception

In this season’s PRC2 opener, Uncle Ho to Uncle Sam, creator/performer Trieu Tran shares an intense autobiographical journey. How did he and collaborator/director Robert Egan […]

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Beating the Odds: How Guys and Dolls Conquered Broadway, America, and the World

by Gregory KablePart Two: America and the World, or My Time of Day Frank Loesser rehearsing Marlon Brando and Edward Hopper’s poignant Nighthawks (1942).(www.mtishowspace.comwww.mtishowspace.com) (www.edwardhopper.net) […]

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Beating the Odds: How Guys and Dolls Conquered Broadway, America, and the World

by Gregory Kable Part One: Broadway, or Luck Be a Lady “All life is six-to-five against.” As one of Damon Runyon’s signature aphorisms reinforces, it […]