Deborah Salem Smith’s intimate and expansive drama Love Alone deftly engages several seminal debates of our cultural moment…
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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…
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.
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 […]
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…
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Opening Night of ‘Private Lives’
It was standing room only for the Opening Night of Private Lives at PlayMakers. Thanks to all the dedicated artists and staff who worked incredibly […]
Paris was the main force in high fashion at this time, but Hollywood reinterpreted trends to dial up the glamour. Paris had Coco Chanel, Elsa […]