PlayMakers kicked off the 2014/15 Season with its first PRC² show, Rodney King, to much acclaim. Roger Guenveur Smith explored the man behind the myth and why his plaintive “Can we all get along?” remains an open question in America’s complicated relationship with race.

PlayMakers is opening its 2014/15 Mainstage Season with Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, the Christopher Durang comedy that enjoyed acclaimed…

PlayMakers Summer Youth Conservatory presents: HAIRSPRAYBased on the New Line Cinema film written and directed by John Waters Directed by Desdemona ChiangChoreography by Matthew Steffens […]

The Summer Youth Conservatory is hard at work on this summer’s production of Hairspray. This week we’re featuring “Timeless to Me: A Charm City Chronicle,” a three-part series by PlayMakers dramaturg Gregory Kable…

Waters was decidedly older, but as I grew into exploring the arts scene in my own right, I recognized he made movies unlike anyone else. That first big trinity of Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, and Desperate Living were some of the most startling…

In my youth growing up in suburban Baltimore, I had only the vaguest notions surrounding Broadway musicals. While the prominent cast albums of the age enjoyed regular rotation on our stereo console…

If you have not heard, anything can happen in the woods. Magic, mischief and mayhem take over at PlayMakers during our 2014/15 Mainstage repertory shows, Into the Woods…

For the past week, we’ve been playing host to one of the nation’s leading devised theatre ensembles as part of the ongoing PlayMakers’ residency program supported by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation…

PlayMakers kicks off the 2014/15 Mainstage Season with Christopher Durang’s hysterical farce Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,that riffs on the tradition of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov…