William Shakespeare’s origins are obscure but the little evidence that we have suggests that he was christened in Stratford-on-Avon, April 26, 1564…
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“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Part 2
The critic Northrup Frye in “The Mythos of Spring” forcefully articulated this contrast between imagination and authority. Frye points out…
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“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Part 1
Both James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods and Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream trade upon the familiar…
PlayMakers takes audiences into the darker reaches of the forest with two tales of magic and transformation in the theater’s annual rotating repertory event with Into the Woods and A Midsummer Night’s Dream Nov. 1 to Dec. 7…
Scenic design is much more than a clever solution to the challenge of providing for the physical requirements of a text. Its purpose is often subversive…
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Costume sketches from Jan Chambers
No, you have not stumbled onto a Disney fan-site, these are sketches from costume designer Jan Chambers for PlayMakers’s production of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. We won’t give away why this production has a few…
PlayMakers’ own Joseph Haj recently published an article in American Theatre discussing co-directing. Over the past few years…
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Durang on Chekhov/Durang on Durang
“I had the idea to write Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike a few years ago, when I realized that I was now the age that Vanya was (or seemed to be). And, like Vanya and other Chekhov characters, I started to reassess…
Christian Daly is making his PlayMakers debut in our Mainstage opener, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike…