Press Releases

Please direct all press inquiries to:

Associate Marketing Director, Rosalie Preston.

We are happy to make arrangements for journalists wishing to cover our company via artist interviews and reviews, but ask that you not attempt to contact the artists directly. As a repertory company with an in-house scene shop, props shop, and costume shop, we are also happy to make arrangements for journalists wishing to cover any aspect of our company, including exclusive behind-the-scenes access to artists and technicians in the months leading up to our productions and events.


PlayMakers’ ‘Big River’ to feature Red Clay Ramblers

CHAPEL HILL – PlayMakers Repertory Company will conclude its 35th anniversary Mainstage Season with “Big River” April 6-24 at the University of North Carolina at […]

PlayMakers names Jeffrey Meanza Associate Artistic Director

CHAPEL HILL – PlayMakers Repertory Company, the professional theater in residence in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, has named Jeffrey Meanza to serve as […]

Actor David Hyde Pierce to be honored at PlayMakers Ball

Television, theater and film star David Hyde Pierce will receive this year’s PlayMakers Distinguished Achievement Award on Feb. 12 at the 23rd annual PlayMakers Ball […]

PlayMakers to mount two-play epic ‘Angels in America’

The professional theater-in-residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will present both plays comprising the contemporary masterpiece, Part 1 “Millennium Approaches” and […]

PlayMakers to present ‘Exit Cuckoo (nanny in motherland)’

PlayMakers, the professional theater in residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, brings “Exit Cuckoo” to Triangle audiences as part of its […]

PlayMakers awarded Mellon grant for theater residency program

For immediate use November 16, 2010 CHAPEL HILL — PlayMakers Repertory Company has been awarded a $200,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to […]

Get ‘Shipwrecked!’ with PlayMakers for the holidays

PlayMakers Repertory Company celebrates the holidays with “Shipwrecked! An Entertainment” by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies. The real-life yet tall-tale storytelling extravaganza will be onstage […]

AMADEUS – PRC at the Symphony

Composer Portraits: Mozart, Dec. 3-5 RALEIGH, N.C.—Sir Peter Shaffer’s beloved play Amadeus is the foundation for a one-of-a-kind hybrid of music and theater that will […]

PlayMakers presents August Wilson’s Tony winner, ‘Fences’

 CHAPEL HILL – PlayMakers Repertory Company will continue its 35th anniversary season with “Fences,” August Wilson’s Tony Award-winning drama, Oct. 27-Nov. 14 at the University […]