Singer/actress Rozlyn Sorrell is a New York native who has performed in music, film, television and theatre in Los Angeles and currently operates Vocal Precision […]
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Kashif Powell is a Triangle-based actor, and a Ph.D. student in Performance Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, making his PlayMakers debut as Stokely Carmichael in The Parchman […]
When audiences enter the theater to see The Parchman Hour, their eyes will probably go straight to the life-sized bus onstage. “The bus became the […]
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Parchman in Context, Part 2
by Ashley Lucas, Dramaturg Ashley Lucas is production dramaturg for The Parchman Hour by Mike Wiley. The text of this post contains the dramaturgical notes […]
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So who were the Freedom Riders?
PlayMakers Repertory’s upcoming show, The Parchman Hour: Songs and Stories of the ’61 Freedom Riders, focuses on the story of a brave and determined group […]
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We Have a Bus!
by Laura Pates, Shop Lead on The Parchman Hour Laura Pates is a first-year Technical Production MFA student who tracked down and transported a real […]
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Parchman in Context, Part 1
by Ashley Lucas, Dramaturg Ashley Lucas is production dramaturg for The Parchman Hour by Mike Wiley. The text of this post contains the dramaturgical notes […]
by Rachel Pollock, Costume Designer I’m currently designing costumes for a very exciting project, the professional world premiere of The Parchman Hour, a new play […]
by Mike Wiley, playwright and director of The Parchman Hour “We few, we happy few. We band of brothers. For he who sheds his blood […]