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A Sneak Peek of “Love Alone”

The final dress rehearsal has taken place and previews have begun for PlayMakers’ new production Love Alone. With opening night just a few days away, […]

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Bringing One-Armed Edna to Life

Love Alone is a fantastic story that crosses a generational gap between the mother, Helen Warren (Julia Gibson), and her daughter Clementine (Arielle Yoder)….

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By Stages: Grief, Gratitude, Guitars

Deborah Salem Smith’s intimate and expansive drama Love Alone deftly engages several seminal debates of our cultural moment…

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Coming Soon: Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins

In the opening number of Assassins, a carnival proprietor invites eight people onto the stage to take their turn in the carnival’s shooting gallery…

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Vivienne Benesch and Deborah Salem Smith discuss “Love Alone”

Director Vivienne Benesch and playwright Deborah Salem Smith discuss staging the regional premiere of Love Alone at PlayMakers. Vivienne Benesch & Deborah Salem Smith VB: […]

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Cocktail Culture in the 1930’s

ELYOT: I think I mentioned once before that I have only had three minute liqueur glasses of brandy the whole evening long. A child of two couldn’t get drunk on that.

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Behind the Scenes: The bias cut revolution

In the 1930’s waist-lines returned and hems dropped back to the floor for eveningwear. And, undergarments virtually disappeared from under bias cut dresses featuring low […]

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Behind the Scenes: Hand painting fabric in the costume shop

Rachel Pollock, Costume Crafts Artisan for PlayMakers Repertory Company, and her assistant Katie Keener, hand painted the fabric used to create the glamorous biased cut […]

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What was Café Society?

The characters Amanda and Elyot in Private Lives are indicative of a social group that came to be known as Café Society…